The Last Of Us is HBO‘s newest sensation. The post-apocalyptic horror-drama is successful with audiences and critics alike, one thing particularly spectacular for a online game adaptation.
The present was already doing nicely however hit an actual tipping level with final Sunday’s Episode 3, which turned the present from a hit right into a bona fide cultural second. The so-called “bottle” episode took a break from the cross-country street journey throughout contaminated America to rewind and inform a contained 20-year love story about two individuals discovering one another after the world collapsed. The stunning, lovely, heartbreaking one-off caught viewers off-guard in probably the most wonderful approach — and has been hailed by many as one of many biggest hours of TV of all time. The man who made The Haunting Of Hill House even thought so!
Tonight’s episode of #TheLastOfUsHBO is likely one of the finest episodes of tv I’ve ever seen
— Mike Flanagan (@flanaganfilm) January 30, 2023
So… why is it the bottom rated episode of the present to date? Like, not even shut?
The sequence has a mean score of 9.2 out of 10 on IMDB, a very distinctive rating. Episode 1 has a 9.2. Episode 2? 9.2. But after per week, Episode 3 has, as of this writing, dropped to 7.9. The episode that had everybody raving? Yep.
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If it fell off in high quality a bit, it might get fewer 10-star votes, changed by extra 7s, 8s, and 9s, that form of factor. That didn’t occur. The first episode acquired 49,000 10-star rankings. Episode 3, titled Long, Long Time, acquired practically 91,000 10-stars. There have been truly far fewer 8s and 9s, which means these individuals seemingly went as much as 10.
The distinction then? The variety of 1-star rankings. That went from 1,427 on Episode 1 to over 46,000 on Episode 3. Yep. It’s getting review-bombed.
It’s not simply IMDB. On Metacritic, the primary two eps scored an 8.6 and eight.5, respectively. Episode 3? 5.0. And if you happen to scroll by way of the opinions, as soon as once more, it’s largely 10s… and a ridiculously giant variety of 1-star opinions.
Why?
Well, in case we forgot to say, that love story in Long, Long Time? It was between two males, performed by Parks and Recreation fave Nick Offerman and The White Lotus standout Murray Bartlett. That’s proper. A bunch of rattling homophobes couldn’t stand that there have been dudes kissing dudes. Suddenly the present about surviving a fungal-infected zombie hellscape acquired all “woke” and a bunch of whiny man-babies couldn’t take it. It made widdle Ben Shapiro all uncomfortable — he needed to do an entire video about it.
Sigh. It’s 2023, and we’re actually devolving as a society. These anti-LGBT a-holes have been whipped into such a frenzy they even have to show zombie exhibits right into a silly tradition conflict.
Innerestingly, regardless of being a model new present, the franchise isn’t any stranger to this phenomenon. The Last Of Us Part II acquired review-bombed so badly inside minutes of its launch in 2020 — due in no small half to phrase getting round that there was a *gasp* constructive portrayal of a trans character — that Metacritic modified its guidelines afterwards to pressure players to attend 36 hours after video games have been launched to overview them. Obviously they’ll’t show whether or not somebody truly performed the sport they have been giving a 1-star spike, however they at the very least stopped trolls from logging opinions earlier than they might presumably have had time to even play.
Kinda makes you marvel how lots of the 1-star opinions for TLOU Episode 3 even watched, doesn’t it?
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