...these emotional and structural choices turn The Last of Us Season 2 into something rare: a story where love, loss, and violence are forever entangled, and where morality isn’t just complicated, it’s shattered and rebuilt, one heartbreak at a time.

| May 27, 2025

Behind Druckmann and Mazin’s showrunning, The Last of Us is poised to be remembered as a great show. Two seasons of top-tier work have guaranteed this outcome, while the heart and performances have created indelible images.

| Original Score: 9/10 | May 26, 2025

The chemistry between Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal is magnificent... their dynamic has been the heart of the show.

| May 22, 2025

Expanding the world with nuance and visual richness, Season 2 steps up the game with tremendous action scenes and even better performances.

| May 19, 2025

The series continues to strike an incredible balance between action, psychological complexity and human emotion. It honours the legacy of the video games while adding even greater nuance through the medium of television.

| May 8, 2025

"There are ample sources of drama, and if one knows the games it’s clear that monumental things are going to happen (though it’s a matter of when and how). It’s off to a solid start."

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Apr 24, 2025

Often these middle seasons can feel like a weigh station, an impatient stopover until the meat of the work in the final act but The Last of Us gifts the audience with many sublime moments that make it more than worthwhile in the meantime.

| Apr 22, 2025

More complex, dark, devastating, ambitious. But also, at times, uneven. [Full review in Spanish]

| Apr 22, 2025

It’s all a bit auto-dystopia, even sluggish. Still... I’m keeping the faith that the mushroom apocalypse will deliver again.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 21, 2025

Fans of the games will be very pleased with how faithful this premiere is to the source material while expanding beyond what they already know. Newcomers: do not read spoilers; get ready to let your jaws drop.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Apr 18, 2025

As heartfelt and thrilling as one of the classic westerns it resembles. For Joel and Ellie (Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey), and humankind in general, this is High Noon.

| Apr 18, 2025

The show's producers seem to delight in presenting situations which look like one thing, only to shift the dynamic as circumstances change and new facts emerge, like turning a crystal in a shaft of light.

| Apr 17, 2025

Trust that this show’s devotion to its characters’ humanity makes the horrors hit harder.

| Apr 17, 2025

Where most adaptations dilute the source, The Last of Us deepens it. The show’s additions nearly always enrich the games, making them even more meaningful to return to.

| Apr 16, 2025

The tension here works, crucially, because Ramsey and Pascal are working from the same nuanced, emotionally intelligent playbook.

| Apr 16, 2025

When writers see themselves as smarter than their characters, it rarely results in truthful 온라인카지노추천.

| Apr 15, 2025

Many developments are striking, and there’s no shortage of hair-raisingly brutal scenes.

| Apr 15, 2025

The 19-year-old character is not as fresh and funny as the 14-year-old was, but Ramsey continues to cleave through the well-made melodrama and get to something real.

| Apr 15, 2025

It’s all about Ellie becoming her own person, which happily means a lot more of Ramsey’s wonderfully punchy portrayal of a damaged young soul fighting for autonomy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 15, 2025

“The Last of Us” is one of the best recent imaginings of an America torn asunder by some apocalyptic calamity because even in its gun-toting action, it stays grounded.

| Apr 15, 2025