Launched this Monday, January 16, 2023 on Prime Video in France, the series The Last of Us is adapted from the video games of the same name. Is it necessary to have played it to watch the series?
The event series The Last of Us is broadcast in France on Prime Video in streaming from this Monday, January 16, 2023. The first season, consisting of nine episodes of approximately one hour each, is written by Craig Mazin (Chernobyl) and Neil Druckmann ( The Last of Us Part I, The Last of Us Part II). Season 1 must adapt the entire first game released in 2013 exclusively on Playstation 3 at the time before being ported to PS4 and then to PS5. For many viewers who have not played the games, this series will undoubtedly be their first contact with the universe of The Last of Us. But then should you have played The Last of Us before watching the series? The answer is no.
Like any adaptation, The Last of Us series is aimed at fans of the original work as well as potential new audiences. Because it is indeed a question of attracting an even wider audience than fans of The Last of Us game. episode 1. Neophytes should therefore not be lost at all. Connoisseurs, meanwhile, will have the pleasure of detecting the similarities between the game and the series but also the differences, because the series The Last of Us from HBO also allows itself liberties with respect to the original work, always in the respect for the history of the game. In other words, we will benefit from many references when we played the game but it is not at all necessary to understand the history of the series, fortunately.