TV review: The Last of Us has post-apocalyptic drama but doesn't really work as a TV show

We’re told The Last of Us is supposed to be a sprawling epic, but it feels like a pedestrian piece of Monday night TV — the dialogue could have been taken from Law & Order off-cuts

destv Nico Parker and Pedro Pascal in The Last of US.

The action in The Last of Us (Sky Atlantic and NOW) starts slowly, with another normal day in 2003. It’s Joel’s birthday and his daughter Sarah is making him eggs for breakfast. They’re close, we’re given enough time to care about them, which is ominous.

We’re then given a few signals that things aren’t alright. A woman shoos Sarah out of her shop; her elderly neighbour has some kind of out-of-focus seizure that Sarah doesn’t see; their dog seems worried.