Is The Last Of Us A Hit Or A Flop? Why The HBO Max TV Adaptation Is So Important As A Live Action Milestone?
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There is a reason why most video games don’t get a live-action series or movies in the first place, and it is mostly about the pre-set quality of the entire experience. There are a number of movies that were inspired by video games and made a fortune for themselves, however, the number of live-action tv series for the same is limited and the quality of it debatable. But what about the soon-to-be-released The Last of Us?
As it seems the HBO Max’s, The Last of Us TV series might be the game changer for several reasons. From its casting choice to its environment, there is something immensely appealing about it that can’t be overlooked. But what is it?
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The Last of Us TV series might be a once-in-a-lifetime hit-or-miss opportunity
If you have played both parts of The Last of Us series, you might have noticed that the gameplay of the series is very simple and minimalistic. Yes, it has some complex mechanisms working for it in the background, and some other parts of the game surely have a fixed pace, but overall, it is a game that tries to remain simple in its approach yet reveals a lot through the environment.
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There is a uniqueness in the environment that tells the player what might have happened at a particular place, making the story even more engaging. Apart from this, there are also some hidden details scattered all across the map of the game, in both parts, that make the game real.
And this is also where the speculation around the game being a hit TV series come up. When a game like The Last of Us gets its own TV series, there is a sudden strike of images and visuals that come to mind; gritty, dark, abandoned, painful, yet surreal. This is also why many think that The Last of Us TV series might be a once-in-a-lifetime hit-or-miss opportunity.
Will it be a milestone for other TV series?
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Although a lot of fans think that The Last of Us TV series will be a major hit, one thing that is even truer than this is that it will serve as a milestone for any upcoming post-apocalyptic world adaptions. This is because, even if there is a slight chance of it being a miss, because of storytelling standpoint or any other issues, it still has been able to create an imaginative world.
Thus, it is likely that the upcoming HBO Max TV series will be a milestone-worthy show, no matter how it performs. Therefore, it will be a real thing to see how the world-building of the show is done, as well as the character development of its protagonists.
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What do you think about this upcoming show? Let us know in the comments below.
Edited by:
Gideon Mathson