I was very excited about the game and looking forward to the TV series adaptation, which is quite excellent in its own right, but just as I couldn't come to terms with Kubrick's adaptation of "The Shining" because I had just read (well, actually translated) the book, there are things here that I definitely don't like. The worst is the casting of Bella Ramsey, who is nothing like the game's Ellie, who is a sweet, vulnerable girl in need of help, while Ramsey's version is an obnoxious, foul-mouthed rebel eliciting neither sympathy nor protectiveness; in fact, you want to punch her in the face. But if you're not familiar with the game, I guess it wouldn't matter too much, even if it does provide a completely different atmosphere and interaction with the main character Joel (played brilliantly by Pedro Pascal), who steps in as a surrogate father for Ellie after losing a daughter of the same age. His task is to escort her across a post-apocalyptic America teeming with infected zombies and trigger-happy, hostile militias. That's all I'm going to give away here. But do watch the TV version. It's one of the best shows of the year, if not the decade. There's already a second season planned, which will presumably be a sequel to the game, "The Last of Us 2" released a couple of years ago, which is just as good as the first. 

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