Every time it came up
Extensive discussion of show pacing, character development, plot decisions, and actress performance
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“And so like leaving that place made no sense to me”
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“I like the show a lot I really like the little girl I think she an excellent actress”
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“It's how quickly we're moving through time”
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“I wish that they had, I wish they'd slowed things down”
Woody ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“i like that she isn't so clean she feels like a real person”
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“as far as the content of the show I enjoyed the storytelling thus far I really like this community”
Unknown · unverified▲ positive
“She is killing it in that role”
HBO adaptation of video game series, discussion of season quality and actress performance
Woody ✓ voice-verified◆ mixed
“Last of Us season one three out of the eight episodes were good i was like wait you know that that first gay episode”
Woody ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“she's a bad actress i don't think she emotes well and i think she's hard to look at so so like if she were prettier”
Kyle recommends the HBO series adaptation, discusses first episode plot setup with Pedro Pascal, fungi apocalypse, 82-minute runtime, and overall quality.
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“I really dug it. I liked that it was long enough to get the story fully going in one episode.”
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“I hope there are lots of episodes. I hope it's not six or eight episodes.”
Kyle · unverified▲ positive
“Yeah, yeah, it is. worthwhile definitely um i think it's excellent i think it's real fucking good”
Kyle discusses the HBO series adaptation of the video game, its reviews, cast including Pedro Pascal and the young actress from Game of Thrones, and the premiere date of January 15th
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“I love it. And the little girl is the little Mormont girl from Game of Thrones. That saucy little girl.”
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“I'm actually looking forward to watching it”
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“She seems like a good actor”
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“the early reviews say that it is the best uh tv adaptation of a video game ever”
Brief mention of The Last of Us HBO series being approved for multiple seasons due to strong viewership performance.
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive · news/off-topic, not scored
“i think last of us um like took off so well that they approved like multiple seasons”
Hosts discuss the latest episode, comparing TV adaptation to the video game source material, evaluating pacing and a villain character
Woody ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“It good I could see how maybe people who are really good at making a TV show are a little handcuffed by the fact that they following the video game”
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“I think it's worth watching”
Woody ✓ voice-verified◆ mixed
“I like that we got a villain for an episode that guy i wish we had known i'm not gonna i'm gonna be careful not to spoil anything”
Extensive discussion of a recent episode about Ellie's backstory, including worldbuilding, character development, and episode logic. Debate over whether it was good TV or wasted time.
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“the things you like are 90 seconds of footage. You're like, yeah, I got to see what her school was like. Yeah, I got to see half a lap in the gymnasium.”
Woody ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“I liked seeing her school environment, like what her life was like under Fedra, something that I didn't really know or we hadn't explored before. It was cool to see her experience little loss, see her first kill.”
Woody ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“They put this 16-year-old child in the mall to live there on her own, on a pile of rags, without checking to see if the mall had any monsters in it first? A team of fireflies could have swept that place in 15 minutes.”
Taylor ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“it's entirely skippable it added very little um it didn't even fulfill the sole point of that which would be showing the resolution of you can put the spoiler thing up zach of you know ellie being bit”
Taylor ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“i thought it was far and away the worst to the point that it was uh not only the worst episode it was a bad episode of tv it was a skippable”
Woody · unverified▲ positive
“I need to jump in because I completely disagree. I thought it was a pretty good episode. I liked seeing how she got bit in the first place, something we didn't know.”
Taylor · unverified▼ negative
“The other thing is I couldn't enjoy the episode even a little bit because I was constantly like, how stupid are y'all? This is so dangerous. I'm not even from your world and I know this is foolish.”
Kyle · unverified▼ negative
“i i'm not interested frankly in ellie independent of uh pedro pascal she's really not that interesting on her own”
Extended discussion of the HBO/MAX adaptation of the video game; quality, episode 3 with Nick Offerman, shooting accuracy from game, Pedro Pascal's acting
Taylor ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“the episode the most recent third episode with nick offerman and i knew he was a good actor but i didn't like i don't have the i haven't seen everything that he's in other than like parks and racking a bit that was the m”
Woody ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“i haven't enjoyed a show this much in a while and zach can you put the spoiler thing down there”
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“I like the enemy too. I'm still confused from time to time. Like, I don't know what Okay, there's a scene in a museum”
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“nick offerman had me crying i don out um as soon as i'm trying to think when i knew it was going to be i was gonna it was gonna be awful that not awful but like awfully sad”
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“I love this fucking show. I really dig it.”
Taylor ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“he acting well and it working for me I watching I interested yeah it gonna to be it be a hard episode to follow”
Woody · unverified▲ positive
“I am shocked that a video game show is so good and i came into it with a bias against it”
Season 2 criticized for character changes, dumbed-down protagonist, and departure from game source material
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▼ negative · news/off-topic, not scored
“there's an active hatred for it season three is on the way in just two short years though”
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▼ negative · news/off-topic, not scored
“Look at Last of Us 2 right now, the way everybody's so upset”
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“it's why I had no intention of ever watching season two because I felt like the pair of them was the thing to me anyway”
Discussion of season finale, hospital scene execution, character dialogue and zombie show comparisons
Woody ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“episode three which we all agree was a tremendous piece of television”
Woody ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“i was even thinking i'm like oh i guess the tv show's on easy difficulty like this is not a difficult thing”
Kyle ✓ voice-verified◆ mixed
“did you watch the finale of the last of us yes yeah i watched it it was okay fine yeah”
Recent HBO series that Taylor watched and found to be very good
Taylor ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“I just re-bought HBO to watch The Last of Us which we can get to in a sec because I thought that was super good”
Discussion of the TV adaptation and the Cordyceps fungus concept from the game.
Taylor · unverified▼ negative
“I didn't like the the show, but I love the idea of Cortiseps because that's a real thing that turns ants and slugs into zombies and is actively trying to spread to other life forms. Like that's that [ __ ] is scary.”
Taylor · unverified◆ mixed
“The Last of Us TV show did a terrible job of it. But, uh, The Last of Us TV show did a terrible job of it.”
Discussion of season 2, casting choices, and audience reception
Woody ✓ voice-verified◆ mixed · news/off-topic, not scored
“I don't like to see her get bullied for following her dream of being an actress, being poorly cast. It's not her fault. The cast sucks.”
Kyle · unverified▼ negative
“You probably know. So Joel dies in the games. So now that girl has to lead the show and the audience score has dropped to 50%. She's not very good.”
Discussion of the TV show adaptation and lead actress's appearance and star quality
Taylor ✓ voice-verified◆ mixed · passing mention, not scored
“she's not ugly but she's not she's not Superstar hot she's not Sydney Sweeney hot”
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“last of us is goated and it's like a screenshot of him playing Last of Us”
Brief discussion of the zombie series based on the video game and survival in post-apocalyptic settings
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“The Last of Us looked like it'd be really easy to like when they got them Wyoming or wherever they went out”
Actress from The Last of Us (Lyanna Mormont actress) praised for performance in Game of Thrones
Woody · likely▲ positive
“you know who's also pretty good I don't know her name lady Mormont maybe she's the little Mormont yeah yeah she plays The Last of Us oh yeah she didn't have a bad scene”
Video game TV adaptation compared to Halo; discussion of faithfulness to source material
Kyle · unverified▲ positive
“I loved like there there's two types of adaptations basically like there's Last of Us which I loved and and then there's Halo the series which started off and decisions were made”
Comparison of The Last of Us TV adaptation to other video game adaptations like Halo and Fallout
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“zombie one with the little girl in Pedro Pascal the last Last of Us is one of the best as far as acting and production value and just really making me feel something”
TV adaptation with fungal zombie parasite concept discussed as more scientifically plausible than traditional zombies
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive · passing mention, not scored
“there are those um um Corp people from um the the recent The Last of Us where you have the fungus um sort of zombie parasite puppeting um”
Discussion about the show's ending and how it adapted the game
Kyle · unverified▲ positive
“I [ __ ] love what I loved about last of us the show is Last of Us season one ended with the first game and I did not see that coming”
HBO adaptation of video game with discussion of season 2 and episode quality
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“yeah yeah I'm not gonna watch season two because I lost interest in that they started really yeah that's a shame they they had too many episodes towards the end”
Hutch · unverified▲ positive
“that was a a formative moment for Joel because it was all about teaching him the lesson that like sometimes you got to fight for you know like you got to like fight for the people that you love”
Discussion of the HBO adaptation and Joel's controversial decision to kill the surgeon
Kyle ✓ voice-verified◆ mixed
“the way that it's laid out to the viewer made it much easier for me to to be on Joel's side”
Kyle · unverified▲ positive
“I thought it was exactly like the game and I like that uh uh you guys have played last of us”
Detailed discussion of the HBO adaptation's final episodes, pacing issues, the flashback episode, and the ending with Joel's decision to save Ellie
Kyle ✓ voice-verified◆ mixed
“they devoted two entire episodes to things that didn't matter you had the the gay love story which was our favorite episode frankly but if you lose it then now we get to spend time with Ellie and Joel”
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“I mean if it's Joel I'm not gonna watch anymore so someone's going to die and you're gonna lose half of your audience if they do die and you're gonna lose the other half if they don't die”
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“I I love the show still okay I like the light I love the LIE um I like that he stuck with the LIE”
Discussion of the HBO series and its storytelling choices regarding LGBTQ+ characters and a controversial pedophile storyline
Taylor ✓ voice-verified▼ negative · passing mention, not scored
“hard disagree all of you were”
Taylor · unverified◆ mixed
“they had gay men and then lesbians and then they had a pedophile love story on the last one”
Discussion of HBO adaptation of video game, including criticisms of recent episodes with flashback content and practical effects versus story progression
Taylor ✓ voice-verified◆ mixed
“I loved it I have not thought about Avatar since the last time you mentioned it how how's it is it still in theaters that's like the third biggest movie I think it is still in theaters”
Taylor ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“this most recent episode is another ham-handed romance and unlike that episode three it adds nothing to the the deepness of the story it genuinely feels like I could have skipped this episode entirely”
Woody · unverified▲ positive
“I like the show a lot and I think right now it's winning me over with uh the acting of the two leads and the special effects you know”
Extended discussion of the HBO series adaptation, pacing, character chemistry, zombie types, and casting choices
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“I just wish they'd slow things down a little bit because to me the meat and potatoes of this show”
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“I'm loving him as Joel I'd never played the games before I'm Vaguely Familiar”
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“I've been enjoying the last of us so much that I wanted to watch some more Pedro Pascal stuff”
Taylor · unverified◆ mixed
“I think they just it's supposed to take longer at least the story is like what a few months is like the travel time in the show”
Kyle · unverified▲ positive · passing mention, not scored
“I prefer the last of us but like what do you think in terms of all of his other roles”
Discussion of the HBO The Last of Us television adaptation and its pacing
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“it is very slow and you have to in season two um that Z character is just so obnoxious”
Woody ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“they definitely moved the plot along so good”
Discussion of HBO/HBO Max series, criticism of episode writing and character decisions
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“I'm so happy to see forget everybody wants to be pumped that they made a show that's true to a video game okay that's almost wishing for too much it's incredible”
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“last episode did suck donkey dick... nothing happened like it it was [ __ ] 45 minutes long and what'd they do drive 10 miles and find themselves in a pickle”
Woody · likely▲ positive
“I loved all I loved it too I thought it was great they just character building and then a really cool gun fight”
Discussion of HBO series quality, casting, and episodes
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“I like this this TV show though and the fact that the game fans say that oh this is great they're so happy with the the adaptation is I guess a cherry on top it's good to see that but overall it's just a good [ __ ] TV s”
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“I did I really enjoyed that show I think it's great that show was very good”
Comparison to God of War 2018 game narrative
Hutch · unverified● neutral
“it ended up being kind of more like uh last of us which is just so knowledgeable”