Just caught up and watched E4. Another cracking episode, with the shootout set piece in Kansas City (Pittsburgh in the game) playing out very similar to the game. Really enjoying seeing the slow flourishing of the relationship between Joel and Ellie as they get to know each other, and get...
3 episodes in - its a masterpiece.
E2 saw the first encounter with the "clickers" - the blind mutated infected, who hunt through sound. This had scenes of such nerve-shredding tension I could've cut diamonds with my brown-eyed starfish.
E3 takes a sharp tangent and a real turn of pace, as we...
The first half an hour is in 2003 at the point when the virus first breaks out - effectively "ground zero", the very first day/night it all kicks off. Then following that traumatic event it leaps forwards 20 years to 2023 where we pick up with Joel in the long-term aftermath of the pandemic...
Its a fair point re TWD. I was fully on board with it for the first few series, but it really did get very "samey" and it ended up feeling like a bit of a chore to watch it. I was on the brink of giving up on it until Negan turned up - he had my missus dripping like a busted fridge, so we ended...
Watched the first episode of this last night, and suffice to say it did NOT disappoint. I'm a huge fan of TLOU 1 and 2 on the PS4, both were utterly captivating and set such a high water mark in video gaming, so I wondered whether this series could do it justice. Going by E1, this nine-parter is...