The Last of Us. Atlanta. Yellowjackets. All shows that are pretty great all in all, but massively overhyped by the press and their respective fandoms. Nothing can live up to the insane amount of praise people load on to good television these days.

Succession is a brilliant TV show. It’s also vastly overrated. Same goes for a lot of current prestige television, to be honest.

Both of those things are mentioned in the dialogue, a couple times I think.

Also, so much of this information is just public knowledge know - most people get that increased temperatures would have bad consequences for public health or lead to the extinction of certain species.

It’s a great film

I watched the first three episodes and it’s pretty brilliant, if a little dry at times.

I think there is just something about the themes of this show that is going to rub Redditors the wrong way.

Redditors seem suspicious of things they believe to be “preachy”. Which is basically anything with a point of view on anything political.

There wouldn’t be half as much hate in this thread if Extrapolations was pitched to audiences as a Black Mirror style anthology that just happened to take place in some vague “near future” or alternate world suffering the effects of climate change.

I think what’s gotten peoples backs up so much is the fact that it’s set in “our world”. And that it’s so explicit in its message and belief that man made climate change will have a negative impact on our lives.

TLDR: Drama shows with real world themes make Redditors feel bad. if this had zombies or some sort of crime family in it, people on Reddit would like it more.

I don’t think faithfulness to the source material is actually the answer here.

A faithful Bioshock adaptation probably wouldn’t be as successful, for example.

So much of TLOU’s success hinges on how well it did with audiences that hadn’t played the game (and likely never will) and it’s most popular and critically acclaimed episode was almost a complete departure from the story that took place in the game.

The only real lesson to learn is to have very good writing that appeals to a wider audience than just gamers. Or to make games that take their storytelling cues from prestige TV.

The ending is better than the memes etc will have you believe. Overall it’s an amazing tv show, and probably one of the best of its kind. Enjoy!

Cash in

I just mean in terms of quality. I don’t think TLOU is the best show in the world, but it certainly shows what can be done with the whole “zombie apocalypse” setting beyond the well trodden ground of TWD

Who cares at this point? Feel like this is really going to live in The Last of Us’s shadow

There’s a The Last of Us tv show?

Why is this being downvoted, it’s just a simple fact!

Suspend your disbelief then, buddy.

It’s a tv show about mushrooms taking over peoples brains, not a documentary.

It was a decent episode and I hope every episode is at least as good. I think there are essentially two reasons it is being so breathlessly praised:

1. Fans of the game are super happy to see it given the Prestige TV treatment - video games and video game adaptations are rarely taken this seriously. There’s also probably not a small section of TLOU’s gamer audience that don’t often watch shows that place that much emphasis on dramatic storytelling over world building, lore and action - which tend to be the basis of most genre TV shows.

2. The non gaming audience of TLOU probably weren’t expecting a video game adaptation to be given the Prestige TV Treatment and were likely expecting something closer to The Walking Dead or a Marvel show.

Simply put, it deviated from half the audiences expectations and exceeded the other half’s, which has lead to slightly inflated reviews from both.

Add to that a great one off performances by actors loved by both - the gamers love Ron Swanson, the non-gamers loved seeing Murray Bartlett getting his ass are in The White Lotus - and you’ve got a recipe for success, as well as a nagging sense that you’re being pissed on and told it’s raining.

The reviewers got all of the episodes to watch earlier this year, so the person writing this may well have a fuller scope of the show than those of us watching it week to week.

I hope they don’t all have the same tone.

How would you rank it against Lost, my personal favourite network tv show?

Is POI good good or like, good for a procedural good? Tempted to hunt it down and give it a try

I don’t think the creators of this show thought they were making prestige drama.

Is this a sex thing?

Just thinking about it makes me want to burst into tears. Haven't seen anything quite like it - such powerful performances and such a brilliantly written point of the script.

It’s not a movie