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The Broken Promise of The Last of Us

World-building that wasn't.

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Eugene Rabkin
Mar 29, 2023
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I know you’ve already moved on to Succession, but bear with me. I just got done watching the much hyped the Last of Us on HBO. I don’t exactly know why it has an 8.9/10 on IMDB, but Ok. I give it 5/10, and I think I’m being rather generous, because I sunk nine hours of my life into it. It wasn’t the mediocre acting, or the boring plot, or the lack of ch…

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