Let the roasting of HBO’s The Last of Us, commence. The show is falling off a cliff in terms of viewership and its Rotten Tomatoes score is going the wrong way at the speed of light as well. Now the internet is jumping in to mock The Last of Us. Good. We are here for it.
Why would we ‘celebrate’ the implosion of ‘The Last of Us’? Easy. We all saw this coming. If you played the game, you already knew that season 2 was going to be an absolute shit show. The people who made the game made one of the worst creative decisions in history. They killed the lead to further a political agenda (in my opinion) and nobody liked it. They ruined the game. You needed Joel for the story. They messed up. Bigly. And you can’t convince me that HBO wasn’t aware of this. So, what did they do for the show? Any big course corrections? Nope. They made the exact same mistake that the game did.
Hubris. HBO is feeling the smack down that follows, hubris. It’s so satisfying to watch people turn away from The Last of Us. Sure, it’s woke. More importantly it’s shitty storytelling. So long, suckers! You knew what you were getting into, and you did it anyway. LOL!
I can see how it’s like some wierd sci-fi comedy attempt, but to me it aligns more with sci-horror. The latest developments turned it past horror, or whatever it was, to just a dystopian mess. Like Disney and Star Wars – killing off the hero, but here in an extra-gruesome way. Ruining a game and a pay-TV show doesn’t matter when you can apparently pay critic corporations to give your mess a high score.
Having the products revolve around a motif of a deadly infectious plague and scenes of apocalyptic destruction, mobs, gore, cruelty, and of course, communism, didnt exactly make it appealing. I think they stole the plot from recent history.
I mean, didn’t we all, just a few years ago, participate globally in a well-televised viral plague, destruction, dumpster fires of all persuasions, and a ton of heinous crime that’s still going on? Didn’t we just recently prevent the place (USA anyway) from going full-red-commie (and worse)? Yeesh!
I’m still trying for the Bright Future of the Jetsons, but others seem to want the Apocalypse and the Road Warrior.
It does seem that way. Hollywood sure does. LOL!