96% critic score from 489 reviews and 86% audience score is near-unanimous; Episode 3 'Long Long Time' entered the critical canon as one of the finest single episodes in prestige TV history.
Renewal: Season 3 has been confirmed. No premiere date announced as of June 2026. (The Last of Us Wikipedia)
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| Season | Released | BollyMeter | Critics | Audience | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 12023 · 9 eps | 15 January 2023 | 9.0 | 96% | 8.8/10 | MUST-WATCH |
| Season 22025 · 7 eps | 13 April 2025 | 7.6 | 92% | 7.5/10 | WORTH-IT |
Season 1 · episode BollyMeter rhythm
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The premiere earns its extended runtime by staging the 2003 outbreak prologue in full, giving the apocalypse a scientific grounding that separates the show from genre predecessors. Pedro Pascal's Joel Miller is introduced under maximum emotional weight: a father, a loss, a man sealed shut. The jump to 2023 Boston is executed without exposition-dump - the world is communicated through texture.
Full episode review →A self-contained love story between Bill (Nick Offerman) and Frank (Murray Bartlett) set across two decades of survival and companionship, told entirely outside the main Joel-Ellie journey. The episode departs from the game's source material to deliver something richer: a complete life, rendered in full, with an ending of extraordinary tenderness. Multiple critics named it the best episode of television in 2023.
Full episode review →The Henry and Sam arc resolves in this episode in a sequence that punishes every attachment the show has encouraged. The Joel-Ellie relationship deepens under pressure, and the episode closes the Kansas City thread with the kind of brutal finality that clarifies exactly how much the series is willing to cost its audience.
Full episode review →The season finale stages the Firefly hospital sequence - the game's most debated moral choice - with the weight it demands. Joel's decision is presented without authorial judgment, which is precisely what makes it so difficult to process. The final exchange between Joel and Ellie closes the season on a note of irreversible ambiguity.
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