The Last of Us has just created TV history as it is HBO’s second most successful TV pilot in 13 years. The only that trumps over it is of course Game of Thrones’ prequel: House of the Dragon. Variety reports that the video game adaptation has drawn in almost 4.7 Million U.S. viewers across HBO and streaming service HBO Max. These figures come from Nielsen and Warner Bros. first party data. House of the Dragon is quite significantly ahead of the series with over 10 Million viewers turning in. However, The Last of Us has surpassed the likes of Game of Thrones, Euphoria, Breaking Bad and many other hit shows to reach this milestone. With the quality that the pilot promises these numbers should just go higher.
On IMDb, viewers have rated the series generously where it now stands at 9.4/10 putting just a notch below Breaking Bad which is #1 rated TV series of all time. It looks like HBO has delivered another fantastic adaptation and has even broken the video game adaptation curse. The pilot which everyone is in love with was almost 85 Minutes long and it looks like the upcoming the episodes are not getting any short either.
The Last of Us Upcoming Episodes Are Long!
Through Reddit, the schedule of the upcoming episodes of the Last of Us has been revealed and along with it, their runtime as well. The immediate next episode which will air in two days time (22nd January) is titled “Infected” will be about 55 minutes long. According to Rolling Stone, this episode will focus on Joel (Pedro Pascal), Tess (Anna Torv), and Ellie (Bella Ramsey), as the trio traverses through an abandoned and flooded Boston hotel on their way to drop Ellie off with a group of Fireflies.
The third episode which is supposed to come out on 29th January 2023 will be 80 minutes long and it currently untitled. This will probably be the episode which introduced Nick Offerman’s character and his partner. The episode will also see the crew locking horns with Melanie Lynskey’s Kathleen, the leader of a heavily-armed militia. According to many, this episode is the frontrunner to be the best TV episode of 2023. Episode 4 will premiere on 5th February 2023 has a runtime of 50 minutes. We don’t have any updates about this episode.
These runtimes may look a bit too long for you but keep in consideration that HBO adds about 4 minutes of end credits in the total runtime. Pedro Pascal leads the cast of The Last of Us as Joel, a smuggler hired to deliver Bella Ramsey’s Ellie, a teenager immune to the Cordyceps brain infection that has wiped out the world, to a group of survivors working to manufacture a cure. Alongside Pascal and Ramsey, the cast for HBO’s The Last of Us adaptation includes Gabriel Luna, Merle Dandridge, Jeffrey Pierce, Anna Torv, Nico Parker, Murray Bartlett, Nick Offerman and Storm Reid.
The first episode of The Last of Us is available for streaming on HBO Max or Disney+ Hotstar, new episodes would release every week.
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