The Last of Us

Season 1 was excellent-emotional, intense, and well-acted. I'd give it a solid 8/10. It stayed true to the heart of the game and delivered a compelling story. Unfortunately, Season 2 fell flat. It dragged, lacked real plot progression, and didn't add anything meaningful. I'd give it a 4/10 at best. The shift in tone and pacing just didn't work. Overall, I'd rate the series a 6/10. Like others have said, stop after Season 1. It tells a complete, satisfying story, and going further honestly just weakens the impact. It's really I give it a low rating because season 2 after the first 3 episodes was just boring!

Season 2 of The Last of Us is an absolute disaster - a steep, embarrassing fall from the emotional depth and tight storytelling of Season 1. What was once a compelling post-apocalyptic drama is now reduced to a lifeless, teenage melodrama filled with forced dialogue, unearned emotional beats, and some of the most painfully wooden acting on television. The plot is nonexistent, the pacing is dreadful, and every episode feels like filler. Characters drift through meaningless scenes, and the emotional core that made Season 1 so powerful is completely gone. It's a soulless, directionless mess that insults fans of the original season.

The first Season was awesome to watch, a never seen disease turns into a pandemic causing havoc around the world and now a smuggler and a immune girl (only hope for humanity) must survive the infected people, a dictatorial system and some rebel groups to find the cure for the survival of humankind.

The first season of this apocalyptic survival drama is one the best I came across with each character has their own character development story and how they have survived all the events unfolding around them.

The Second season is more on revenge, pretty high on emotional quotient and less on survival and finding cure, which will probably be extended into season 3. A perfect survival drama has turned into a series for personal vendetta and revenge.

Since the Last of Us part II game itself has uncertain ending, I hope Craig Mazin finds the magic pen to write a perfect ending be it in Season 3 or Season 4 or beyond, otherwise another series which has perfect start will end like Game of Thrones.

The first season was undeniably phenomenal. One of the best series I've seen in a long while. The characters were developed well, the storyline was amazing, and the drama spectacular. Based on season one alone, I rated the series as a 9 overall. Therefore imagine my surprise when, upon viewing/completing the second season, the overall quality of the series, took and unobstructed nose dive off a cliff. What happened? It couldn't be the death of Joel alone (as he was still used in flashbacks). My biggest gripe is the dumbing down of Ellie. She went from an intelligent and cunning character, to a ignorant annoying little girl in constant need of rescue. This series could have been great, but evidently the creators settles for decent. With season 1 at a rating of 9 and season two a rating of 5, combined the series gets a generous 7.

The first season was very good and is definitely worth watching. Visually it looked excellent with lots of very good CGI. Pedro Pascal as Joel was a good choice.

Unfortunately, season 2 didn't meet expectations and if I'm honest it was far from them. I rarely find myself noticing bad acting however I would cringe multiple times an episode at Bella Ramsay . It may seem harsh focusing the blame on her alone but it was very noticeable and a recasting would have been a good idea. Furthermore the episodes were dull, uneventful and slow. The only reason I finished the season was because I thought that it would surely get better . It didn't.