The Amazon Prime Video series shows, as 'The Last of Us' did, the strength that video game adaptations have. The performances (special mention to Ella Purnell and Walton Goggins), the main plot, the not too serious tone...
everything works, everything seems in balance in the series by Todd Howard and Jonathan Nolan. The visual identity deserves a separate point: it is so refined and so overwhelming that it makes the viewer unable to believe that it was cheaper than, for example, The Three-Body Problem. The series is great, yes, and yet, there is one thing more important than the series itself. It is done almost unanimously respecting the story on which they are based. That is precisely what The Last of Us does, faithfully reproducing the characters, the conflicts between them, and even tracing plans from the original game. It inaugurates another type of adaptive form for real action. Following in the wake of animated productions such as Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and Arcane.