When You're Lost in the Darkness 

8.3

 

The high production values and the series' ability to pivot its storytelling keep it fresh, even as the show’s familiarities and the rudiment...

Comfortably the best adaptation of a video-game ever made: one that deepens the game’s dystopian lore, while staying true to its emotional cor...

Less sensitive than sentimental, an end-times fable where the apocalypse is a bonding experience and guns are better anti-viral defenses than...

An aggressively competent series, if not a transcendent one, but the dozens of failed game adaptations that came before it bend the curve deci...

There’s a genuine humanity in the bond that forms between Joel and Ellie, which develops organically from one harrowing encounter to the next...

The Last of Us lives up to the intimate, visceral nature of the video game.

Plenty of plot details in The Last of Us might feel conventional, but the show still offers a rich genre stew, with the kind of high-budget fl...

Don’t worry if you’re not a gamer, this series—the best screen adaptation of a vidgame ever—will hit you hard. Costars Pedro Pascal and Bella...

A perfectly acceptable way for those who don't know their D pad from their analog stick to experience one of the great sci-fi narratives...

"The Last of Us" isn’t afraid to ask challenging questions with no easy answers; or no answers at all. That it’s so exceptionally and meticulously...

As heartbreakingly faithful as it is riveting and suspenseful, The Last of Us is a triumph that ends any further debate about the all-time bes...

It’s a hopeful show about the end of humanity – one that manages to find, and nurture, moments of grace amid the ruins.

The nine episodes of this first season largely focus on faithfully adapting the first game. Happily, they do this extremely well, though it's...

I was impressed with how seamlessly the show built and burst my expectations, over and over again. As it progresses from episode to episode, it kee...

The Last of Us is a superb TV series which invests in its characters’ stories, their inner lives, and builds a complex relationship betwe...

A fascinating deconstruction of the game that leans on character and storytelling instead of action, and it does so in a way that's confi...

By merging the psychological profundity and emotional realism Mazin applied in his historical drama to Druckmann’s speculative premise, its n...

This series is its best-case scenario – the original creator, a proven HBO visionary, an A-list cast, and a script that found every heart...

The Last of Us balances cold terror with warm humanity.

What sets The Last of Us apart from other TV dystopias is its humanity. This isn’t the usual every-man-for-himself post-zombie outbreak set up. Thi...

Episode by episode, there’s a lot to recommend The Last of Us.

It doesn’t feel even remotely controversial to call this the best video game adaptation ever made.

What works about "The Last of Us" works well enough that one sees the near future in which the show winds up among television’s best.

The Last of Us series does not feel like a revolution of any kind—it is simply well-made television that elevates itself slightly above some o...

The show expertly tugs on both the heartstrings and the nerves to create something that feels very bingeable. For thriller fans, it’s going to be c...

The Last of Us becomes at least as engrossing in its quiet moments as in its scary ones – and arguably more so when it’s just focusing on who...

As performers, Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey breathe new life into known quantities. So, too, does their show.

In its scale, depiction of dread and its believable vision of friendship in disaster, The Last of Us is a rare piece of television: an adaptat...

A series that effortlessly merges the various horrors of end times with the courage and clarification they can bring.

Like the 2013 game on which it’s based, the television adaptation is such a gripping tale of survival because it makes ample room fo...

At nine episodes, it feels a little long, even if it is truncated compared to its source material. But in its scale, depiction of dread and it...

I like that The Last of Us isn’t consumed with telling stories about the powerful but instead is focused on regular people who are just trying to m...

I loved its balance of horror and heart. It burrows under the skin and refuses to leave.

Viewers won’t be spored to death by this effectively frightful adaptation.

Superior zombie series that takes a little too long to get around to what it’s really about – us.

From the performances to the storytelling to the aesthetic elements, it’s an exquisitely made adaptation. But it also asks viewers to absorb a...

Even if The Last of Us treads familiar ground, it is still a gripping and ambitious work that seems fated to become the premium cable network...

Druckmann, working with Mazin, has his fingerprints all over this tender, well-crafted and blackly comic piece. Right now, HBO is simply operating...

The team has done an excellent job of sticking close to the source material while also breathing life into new characters along the way, creating a...

… Sober and affecting, in that gritty way that constantly assures this is a show for grown-ups.