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The Last of Ustakes its time revving up.
The HBO video-game adaptation opens on a 1960s TV interview program (hosted by Bighead!)
featuring two epidemiologists discussing the possible end of humanity via disease.
The scene is brief, but the tone is set.
This wasnt necessarily the case in the source material.
The game and the HBO show converge when the three Millers get into the car.
Many lines from the game are preserved (They have a kid, Joel.
), while distinct tweaks have been made to further enhance the onscreen drama.
(The remake with more modern tech, released last fall, is only somewhat better.)
Since this is a game, its also a sequence with a fail state.
Such a trade-off is endemic to video games.
Its a dramatic act of imagining, taking an original text and finding new life.
But as the first half of HBOs spectacular pilot episode shows, you still gotta play the hits.
