I want to like it but the writing on this show is really awful. The build up and intended payoff is incoherent. The tone is very muddled. What are they going for exactly? Thriller? Family drama? Polemic screed? The whole show is aesthetic and Jodie Foster busting her ass to try and make it all work.

It is very clearly not blackface. Use of “perceived” in the passive voice doesn’t make the allegation any more responsible.  

It was honestly good comedy.  The overwrought dramatic music on a video game sequence of Joel mowing people down.  lol.  That’s not what they were going for though.

In the games the infected will even attack each other.  

Yeah, as long as you stop thinking, the conceit around the central character’s potential death doesn’t really matter.

Its all nanomachines bruv.

This is why the story is fundamentally flawed. The poorly constructed final conflict is something the show could have resolved, but its even more rushed in the show than in the game. The idea of Joel choosing Ellie over the cure is a great idea dramatically, but you have to actually earn those kinds of moments for…

Pretty sure Lyanna would die on the battle field tho lol.

Ellie has a weird credulity problem of riding the line between Annie Oakley, or like the little girl in True Grit, and Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone. Like are we meant to believe that she could overpower all these adults? Is she Arya Stark after all the assassin training? Or is she a wise cracking Nickelodeon youth…

But he has her in a cage... and he has guns/weapons etc so he could easily “win” if he wanted to. Yet he decides to kill her, and is so goofy and incompetent that he allows her to overpower two full grown men. It really doesn’t help the case that he’s this terrible villain.

I feel like the show is at its best when its retconning the game, and at its worst when its slavishly true to it, despite glaring issues with character motivation/plot.

But also, Joel was fully justified in killing those dudes.  Like doesn’t this Silver Lake place expect that if they try to kill people, the people will try to kill them back?

Why does David go from “you broke my finger, im gonna killll uuu!” to “the fight is my favorite part, now i’m a pedo and i’m going to rape you” in the span of an hour?

they shoulda just had a scene of him masterbating into a pie made of dead babies. then we’d really get the picture that he’s a naughty man!

Funny I think it highlights the flaws of the game, and shows how the sloppiness of the source material’s plotting can’t hold up in a serialized tv show.

They should name the franchise Daddy Kills Daddy: When Daddies go bad::: Lil baby Sissies Revengence

If you watch tv shows and your take away is “that deserved an EMMY” vs “that did not deserve an Emmy!” you’re a weirdo.

Was it supposed to be a plot twist that David is a “bad guy” lol?  I think the twist is that they failed at making him unsympathetic.  If the village is actually starving, and some people have died... yeah you might turn to cannibalism. 

This movie sucks and this review is stupid.

Yeah I’m not gonna assume they’re gonna depict AOC as evil.  Even though it seems implied that she’s working on behalf of Vought.  It is such a bold creative choice to make a direct analogue for AOC.  I’m curious to see where they take it.