There have been excessive stakes with the TV debut of The Last Of Us – an adaptation of arguably the most well-liked online game of all time.
And judging by viewer response to the primary episode, the collection has managed to ship.
The nine-part post-apocalyptic drama, based mostly on the 2013 online game of the identical identify, debuted on Australian streaming service Binge on Monday, with new episodes to air weekly on Mondays.
After early opinions dubbed it near-on good, viewers and followers alike have now had their say, flocking to social media in droves to declare it “outstanding” viewing:
Showrunner and the sport’s mastermind Neil Druckmann swiftly took to Twitter to thank the present’s main stars, Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey, for bringing his imaginative and prescient to life, as he additionally paid tribute to the followers for his or her overwhelmingly optimistic response.
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Co-showrunner Craig Mazin, who was additionally behind the smash hit collection Chernobyl, echoed Druckmann’s sentiment on his Twitter web page.
“THANK YOU for all the wonderful reactions and passion you’ve shown for the show,” Mazin wrote. “Honestly, we’re all blown away over here, and I’m particularly pleased because I think the series just gets better and better as it goes.”
The HBO collection, which reportedly price $13 million an episode, is about 20 years on from a worldwide pandemic that decimated the human inhabitants, after a fungus-based an infection burrowed into folks’s brains turning them into rabid, infectious zombies.
Per the online game, the main target centres on Joel Miller (Pascal), who has spent the previous 20 years barely surviving as a smuggler alongside his accomplice Tess (Anna Torv).
The beacon of hope in a bleak existence for Joel is 14-year-old Ellie (Ramsey), of whom he turns into a protector. Ellie is resistant to the an infection and may be the one key to a remedy or a vaccine – however this places her in grave hazard.
The Last Of Us airs new episodes Mondays on Binge
Originally printed as ‘The Last Of Us’ viewers react to ‘outstanding’ episode premiere
