The Last of Us Season 1 Episode 9 Review | FINALE 

So some of u are commenting that the giraffe was real? Lmao it looked quite edited with some CGI touch ups but maybe I’m crazy. 😂😅 Anyways thanks for watching!!

Super stealth cameo alert: in the operating room shootout scene one of the nurses was played by Laura Bailey, who is the voice actor for Abby in TLOU2 game.

just watched behind the scenes, they actually had a real giraffe for the set

Fun fact, girrafe was real

The giraffe was real

I felt cautious going into it when I saw it was only 43 minutes, but after watching it the pacing was honestly absolutely perfect, they hit every plot point and emotional beat in a way that felt very natural.

The finale was a bit short, but they nailed it. Can't wait for season 2.

I really loved the cold open of the episode but the rest of the episode felt rushed. The emotions didnt hit as hard as the previous 2 episodes. Joel running through everyone at the hospital with no real resistance felt a little cheap as well. I loved the show but the ending did not hit as well I thought it would. 7/10 episode in my opinion.

Not sure the creators/directors of the Last of Us could’ve given a more glowing review than this video, lol. Last of Us season 1 was interesting enough to hold my attention and to make me look forward to Season 2. Hopefully the storytelling in Season 2 is smoother, and with fewer confusing/irrational motives that plagued many of the characters throughout Season 1.

perfect timing. I just finished the episode and went straight to RU-vid and this was the first video I saw

Been looking forward to this review today!

Actually you can hear about Riley in the main game before the final scene. Namely in Ellie's chapter. If you go in her backpack she has unique items for her, including Sam's toy, the note from her mother and riley's firefly pendant.

surprise, surprise, the giraffe is real, the background is CGI.

I loved the show, but after reaching the end… I don’t understand or agree with the lack of Infected. Hope they play a bigger roll in season 2. For an apocalypse they sure seem to have too easy of a time strolling through city after city. I get wanting to use the shock of violence sparingly to tell a people focused sorry, but you’re adapting a zombie video game… get off your high horse and sprinkle in a few here and there. If you think can’t find a way to display character growth/behavior and arcs through action / infected encounters… why bother with a zombie apocalypse. This could’ve easily taken place in a apocalypse caused by nuclear fallout and nothing of value would really change. We saw The Last of the Infected a few episodes back lol

Love your take! Just adding m own opinion here but Ellie was never TOLD she would die so Joel saved her life. He saved her from being a science experiment.Would Ellie reall have given her life knowing the risk of it ever being worth it? She fought hard to live...and how do they mass produce anything when people can't even eat??

Going to be really interesting to see mainstream reactions to season 2 to compare to the gaming community reaction

The giraffe apparently was Real from what hbo has confirmed

I’d like to hear your opinion on part II. I wasn’t a fan of the story either. How do you think they can tell the story in season 2? Maybe a prediction on that would be a great video

I wish Salt Lake city looked this pretty as it does in the show/game

What do you mean when you say the GCI on the giraffe was wonky? They filmed with a real giraffe. (as seen on the behind the scenes).

I so agree with your point of wanting to see more infected. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think in episodes 3-9 there were only two infected, both in flashbacks + of course that one scene with the sink hole bunch. It just kinda took the vibe from the show that I really liked in the game, the suspension of the infected lurking behind every corner. As another general critique, I think the show's storytelling was quite fragmentary, something that suits the video game format but I'm not so sure about the tv show. But then again I don't know how they could have changed that considering that the game already kinda set up the story. Otherwise I enjoyed the show and your recaps!

great review 👍

As shocking as the twist is at the end the whole montage of him gunning nameless people down with zero effort took me out of the story and the way they didn’t show him pull out his gun when she had him cornered was also very anti climatic. The show did a good job of grounding its characters and the set pieces and yes the least grounded had nothing to do with infected. I really hope they don’t do stuff like this again.

Yea I agree, those cgi giraffes weren't very good cgi. Way too life like

The giraffe is real!

Amazing episode

Love the video but if you look at the behind the scenes the giraffe was real 😊 the background was green screen though

Knowing that you didn't enjoy part 2 of the video games makes me look forward to season 2 reviews a lot more. Episodes will be deemed better BECAUSE they deviate from the games 😂

Wow man you really loved this one lol, thats good 👍

do you think the ratings are inflated on imdb?

I think there’s less zombies to make it stand out compared to Walking Dead.

When I saw 40 minutes I panicked. I still don't know how they fit so much in 40 minutes.

nice

Was Marlene the mother of Ellie's best friend from the mall episode?

😮

arcane is really good but its kinda its own thing based on the game not as much an adaptation.

Just finished the game last night for the first time, they pretty much copied and pasted it on the show, almost word for word and frame for frame. If anyone didn’t like this ending, it’s how it was in the game, so don’t blame the showrunners (just putting that out there, haven’t seen this video yet) Love you Kiwi! Thanks for all the great content

Too bad you didn't like it 😜