Hey guys what’s happening? Niyat here with film comics explained. As requested, today we’ll be diving into the HBO adaptation of the Last of Us by Craig Mazin (the creator of the Chernobyl miniseries) and Neil Druckmann (co-president of Naughty Dog, known for his work on Uncharted and The Last of Us.

It’s safe to say that video game adaptations rarely work. Most productions are doomed from the get go, with companies merely wanting to exploit an IP and the fanbase to turn over some quick cash.

Then you have the issue of transposing a gaming experience where the viewer is an active participant in the world and story, to one where they are a passive viewer.

Then there’s problems with cramming 20 hours of gaming content, DLC’s, easter eggs, character motivations and objectives, conflict, and complex storytelling elements into a movie with a run time of 90 minutes.

Spread across 9 episodes, Season 1 of the Last of Us avoids many of these pitfalls in a mostly faithful adaptation. Like the game, we follow Joel and Ellie in a harrowing journey across the post-apocalyptic wasteland, trying to find the proverbial and symbolic light at the end of the tunnel.

Traveling across abandoned cities that were destroyed 20 years ago due to a global cordyceps outbreak, the two learn about each other, the new world setting they must traverse, its many factions and organisations vying for power, the cordyceps infection, the infected, in addition to there being hope for a cure.

In this video, we’re going to breakdown all these elements and more.

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