{"id":518200,"date":"2023-01-15T17:06:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T17:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=518200"},"modified":"2023-01-25T17:17:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T17:17:13","slug":"review-hbo-s-the-last-of-us-is-the-best-video-game-adaptation-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/review-hbo-s-the-last-of-us-is-the-best-video-game-adaptation-ever","title":{"rendered":"Review: HBO’s ‘The Last of Us’ is the best video game adaptation ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a general rule, video games don’t usually make for good TV. In spite of their often moving narratives, startling imagery and millions of fans around the world, Hollywood has had a devil of a time trying to turn even the most popular games into creatively and commercially successful films and TV shows. There are the decent if hokey adaptations, like Netflix’s “The Witcher” (also based on a book series); the boring ones such as Paramount+’s lethargic “Halo” ; and the unspeakably terrible ones, like the 1993 “Super Mario Bros.” film, which plays like a bad “Saturday Night Live” sketch (an upcoming Mario film, featuring Chris Pratt voicing the titular plumber , has already been maligned online before its release). Bella Ramsey as Ellie and Pedro Pascal as Joel in HBO’s “The Last of Us.” HBO This is why it feels like HBO’s adaptation of the acclaimed PlayStation game “The Last of Us” (Sunday, 9 EST\/PST, ★★★ out of four) is such a big achievement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey lead HBO’s adaptation of video game “The Last of Us,” which breaks the curse of bad video game TV shows and movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-technology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}