Waiting around the series The Last of Us was indeed verified at the beginning of the week. The show produced by HBO and Naughty Dog had already won over critics but now had to come up against public appreciation. The latter responded present since the first episode of the series achieves a tour de force by propelling the series with the second best start of a new show on HBO in the last ten years.
Future series phenomenon?
HBO bet on the right horse by choosing to adapt (obviously brilliantly) one of the most popular video game licenses of the last decade.
According to Deadline, the channel was able to count more than 4.7 million viewers during the broadcast of the first episode last Sunday (which was broadcast overnight from Sunday to Monday on Amazon Prime with us), which therefore makes it the second best start of a series on the platform, taking into account the series released during the last ten years . The show was topped only by House of the Dragon the spin-off series of Game Of Thrones which was a real phenomenon in 2022, with a first episode at just under 10 million viewers.
It is certainly twice as much as The Last of Us, but the results of this adaptation should not be underestimated, which is already a success for the channel. We are now waiting to see if the remaining eight episodes will succeed in confirming the enthusiasm around the series.