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TV Review: The Last of Us, Episode 6
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Jasmilla Zbanic Starring Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Gabriel Luna, Rutina Wesley TV-MA Joel has always been a uniquely fascinating character to me. In the realm of mentor figures, he’s always been one of the few that the writers are not afraid to critique and deconstruct; his imperfections are…
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TV Review: The Last of Us, Episode 5
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Jeremy Webb Starring Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Melanie Lynskey, Lamar Johnson TV-MA Where do we start here? Do we start with Henry and Sam’s tragic story – a story that, as Kathleen says in the episode, is arguably fate? Do we start with Kathleen’s own motivations, which have…
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TV Review: The Last of Us, Episode 4
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Jeremy Webb Starring Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Melanie Lynskey, Lamar Johnson TV-MA About partway through this episode of The Last of Us, Joel and Ellie are attacked by a group of what they assume to be raiders. Joel tries to fend them off while Ellie goes into hiding,…
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TV Review: The Last of Us, Episode 3
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Peter Hoar Starring Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Nick Offerman, Murray Barlett TV-MA Oh wow. The praise going into this episode of The Last of Us was near overwhelming to the point where I was worried it wasn’t going to live up to it. It’s easy to get swept…
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TV Review: The Last of Us, Episode 2
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Neil Druckmann Starring Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Anna Torv, Christine Hakim TV-MA “Bomb the whole city.” Those are the chilling words delivered at the cold open of this episode, and it’s fitting then that, in the same episode, it ends in a massive explosion to wipe out a…
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TV Review: The Last of Us, Episode 1
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Craig Mazin Starring Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Nico Parker, Anna Trov TV-MA The discourse surrounding so called “cinematic video games” is so pervasive nowadays that it’s genuinely hard to remember a time where The Last of Us, originally released in 2013, was seen as revolutionary achievement. And while…
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