« The Last of Us », to follow the series you have to regress the nerd phase: it takes too long …

The second season of « The Last of Us » has arrived, the dramatic series Sky Exclusive HBO. Inspired by the famous video game developed by Naughty Dog for PlayStation, after a first cycle of record episodes, the series takes up five years after the events of the first season. Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) must fight against a world even more dangerous and unpredictable than what they had left behind.

Joel and Ellie must survive In a post-apocalyptic world, after the outbreak of Cordyceps pandemic that led the world to destruction. The story is in fact set twenty years after the defeat of modern civilization, swallowed by a past that Ellie – 14 years old, immune to the mushroom responsible for pandemic – cannot remember, and that for Joel – a solitary survivor – it is painful to bring back to memory.

In this world of survivors There is still an iron rule to respect: it instantly eliminate anyone who is bite or show even the very first symptoms of the disease. There is also a city council to refer for any decision to be made to the meetings organized en masse. Ellie, who is now 19 years old, seems to suffer from all these impositions and his relationship with Joel is deteriorating.

I confess that it is a period I am doing Many efforts to follow a series, as if the first shots assailed me a nostalgia for the great stories of the past. As if the abundance of choices available had engraved on the quality of the productions. As if the new proposals found a serious difficulty in departing from repetitiveness and habit.

The fact is that today, to follow the series, You have to have a lot of time available, regress the nerd phase, enter a network of friends who spend time advising the best, assuming that they still exist (better series, not friends).

By now the discourse on seriality He moved on social media, the level of the discussion has lowered himself and the fans’s lexicon became more gait, almost incomprehensible. But are they just thinking so?