Creators: Neil Druckman and Craig Mazin
Address: Craig Mazin, Neil Druckmann and others
Distribution: Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Anna Torv, Melanie Lynskey
Country: United States of America
Duration: 50 to 70 minutes (9 episodes)
Year: 2023
Gender: horror drama
First preview of the last episode: March 13, 2023 (HBO Max)
‘What’s left of us’ (HBO Max) it started with a bang, in more ways than one: that long “flipback” of the outbreak of a fungal plague, as the epidemiologist played by John Hannah warns us. The dream intersects between “Dawn of the Dead” (that’s right, written by Zack Snyder), “Children of Men” (the camera turns to look for danger from inside a truck), and “Monstrous” (the plane crashes into the street). head of the Statue of Liberty).
But when the central trauma was turned to images, this adaptation of the famous video game biology by creative directors Neil Druckmann and emerging screenwriter Craig Mazin (‘Chernobyl’) made some sense. an almost unexpected intimacy and subtlety of nuance. On the other hand, as it should be in a prestigious HBO drama, a world patiently formed here, a complex cosmos: a United States decimated by a violent epidemic, subject to martial law proclaimed by the FEDRA organization. Hope appears to be a girl who is mysteriously immune to the infection.
libertarian communism
Smuggler Joel (Pedro Pascal) accepts the task of transporting these goods, which he identifies as Ellie (Bella Ramsey), to the old Massachusetts city hall, which was the meeting point of the Firefly rebels, with no problems at first. Thus one began mind-blowing journey through beautiful dystopian environments, from those Boston buildings that nature has destroyed or occupied, to that small town in Massachusetts where, after all, “survivors” Bill (Nick Offerman) and Frank (Murray Bartlett) have loved each other for several decades. non-playable characters that want to give a new presence. There’s also something akin to utopia on the map: that Jackson community (Wyoming) where something akin to libertarian communism is the vital philosophy.
In the rich moral landscape of The Last of Us, bad guys aren’t just bad, they have (perhaps warped) human loopholes. Or, as Renoir puts it, he has his reasons. This is the case of the fearsome Kathleen (Melanie Lynskey), who becomes the leader of the Kansas City resistance to avenge her brother’s death; Unfortunately, the informant you’re looking for also had reasons to do what he did. But evil in its purest form is possible here, as evidenced by the appearance of such cannibalistic David Koresh (Scott Shepherd) in the eighth episode directed by Ali Abbasi (“The Border”, “Holy spider”) with savage sobriety.
effective climax
And when we believe your action is The show couldn’t have been faster and its violence couldn’t have moved us more strongly.The final episode, which also bears Abbasi’s signature, was even more hurtful and destructive. A shorter-than-normal length (43 minutes, less than the length of any episode) benefits audiences, a climax that most of the game’s devotees don’t know about, which ceases to be effective or, unfortunately, coherent.
“The series revolves around the beauty and horror that love can cause.Druckmann told us before the television phenomenon had even emerged. An interesting idea on paper, but even more interesting on screen. It has driven us to do things that are as terrible as they are beautiful. The last thing that remains of us, of humanity, may be the end of others. The creators of the series wanted to leave us hanging in that contradiction until its distant premiere (hopefully, in the year and middle of season two).