HBO: The Last of Us

[epilogue]

So that intro is very game of thrones

It's not "very game of thrones" it's actually exactly game of thrones, like so much do that it's distracting.

[Bammer]

Threads are cross-pollinating

[Mecca]

Threads are cross-pollinating

The end is near

[Ello Sailor]

If that album wasn't the end of Pearl Jam, nothing will be. Zombie Ed will be doing jump splits and warbling the same old nonsense post-apocalypse.

[Bammer]

I haven’t seen this but I get the point and the SNL Mario Kart thing was pretty great

[Coach]

Looking forward to tonight's episode. It's nice to have a show on at 9 on a Sunday to look forward to.

[Monkey_Driven]

And Succession starts the week following the finale. Appointment TV is back!

[Ensign9]

I’m still digging the show but it feels like it grinds to a halt whenever they’re replicating sequences from the game. I can’t quite put my finger on why it bothers me. I found myself leaning forward during the Kansas City group scenes. The rest of the time, I’m just nodding, in my head going, “Yep; that’s just like the game. They nailed it.” and not totally engaged in what’s going on. Maybe it’s like looking at the best paint by numbers art you’ve ever seen next to something original. The paint by numbers can’t quite compare.

That scene at the end in the high rise room was magic, thought.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Bi_3]

I thought E4 was mostly great. I’m starting to have the opposite experience as Ensign, with the emotional resonance of Joel and Ellie’s relationship hitting me in new ways that weren’t there in the game. The only parts that were boring to me were all with the Kansas City free folk, which felt as hollow and dumb as Walking Dead.

100% this. Giving Joel and Ellie dialogue and some room to interact was sorely missing in Ep2 and I assume, having not played the game, is going to set up some serious tears in the near future.

And the only people Kathleen inspires fear in are local managers.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Peeps]

never played the game but this so far has been playing out like any number of other apocalyptic movies involving infection/spores etc.

the episode with bill and frank was very pretty enthralling

[Coach]

Yeah, episode four felt way too familiar and I never played the game.

The show, I think, is still good enough - I am still in.

[Monkey_Driven]

Just saw Episode 5 releases on Friday to avoid the Super Bowl hysteria. I think that's smart. It seems like last night's episode was just the first half of the Kansas City story arc.

[Ensign9]

This is pretty nuts:

[Bi_3]

This is pretty nuts:

It also shows that producers don't need to fear alienating viewers in order to tell LGBT stories. It's HBOMax, not Newsmax.

[Peeps]

Ever time I hear him talk I only hear the mandolrian

[Bi_3]

Ever time I hear him talk I only hear the mandolrian

[VinylGuy]

Just saw Episode 5 releases on Friday to avoid the Super Bowl hysteria. I think that's smart. It seems like last night's episode was just the first half of the Kansas City story arc.

¨hysteria¨

haha

[psychobain]

That was some great tv