When it comes to visualizing the numbers, The last of us Season 2 is larger than a Bloater – especially larger than the first season too.
When season 1 attracted 4.7 million viewers for its beginnings, making it the second first HBO the most watched in more than a decade, the first episode of The last of us Season 2 has reached 5.3 million people.
The last of us was a huge success for HBO. As Variety reports, the first season reached 8.2 million people with its final and this second season had an even stronger start.
What makes it one of the best Max shows is that the characters feel incredibly real – and that means that their stress is our stress, their fear is our fear, their losses are our losses. And if this is the kind of thing you like, Max has many other shows that offer the same type of experience, although in very different environments.
Although these other shows are not full of infects, they are as contagious as Cordyceps; If you are looking for shows that absolutely hang you The last of us The fact, I think you will love them.
The Pitt
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Where to look: Max (US), Foxtel now / Binge (AU)
Hospital in The Pitt is not as dark as the one we saw at the end of The last of us Season 1 and in flashback in season 2. But it is not a vacation station either.
Noah ‘Er’ Wyle and a spectacularly strong distribution are doctors in an emergency of Pittsburgh, and during biting 15 hours, the strands of history meet in a horrible event which pushes all the people involved, and sometimes beyond, their limits.
There are no zombies here, but there is a ton of humanity because we follow residents, nurses and patients through a single day of marathon. So far, I have only cried in an episode of The last of us; I cried at least once in each episode of The Pitt.
As the New Yorker said: “It is structured so that you know that you will have the heart broken and repaired several times by episode – it’s just a question of how.”
Real detective
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Where to look: Max (United States), Sky / Now TV (UK)
During his four seasons Real detectiveThe quality of quality-Season 1 has a critical note of 92% rotten tomatoes, while the yourself-skip-it of the second season did not even cracked halfway. But the first, third and fourth seasons of this drama of intense, strange and often deeply disturbing cop are worth watching.
The first season was “one of the best detective programs ever broadcast on television,” said CBR, while Rogerebert.com praised the tracks: “[Matthew] McConaughey and [Woody] Harrelson not only fills these characters, they disappear in them, offering two of the best performances you will see on television or this year’s film. “”
Season 2 … Let’s not go there. Instead, let’s go to the third season and to the magnificent Mahershala Ali. Digital Spy spoke for many: “Come for the devoid of Arkansas – but stay for the fascinating tour de force which is Mahershala Ali and you will not be disappointed by this last outing.” Los Angeles magazine accepted. “Ali is not in each scene of True Detective; he seems right there. The show is Ali’s masterpiece”.
A question arose again and again: where are women? In response, season 4 placed Issa López on the director’s headquarters and Jodie Foster and Kali Reis Center on stage for a disturbing snow nightmare.
“The renewal led by Jodie Foster balances the supernatural flourishes with distinctly human horrors,” said the New Yorker. And Rogerebert.com described it very well: “A fascinating study of murder, misogyny, racism, abuse cycles and perhaps something hp lovecraft”Night country“I will tighten you.
Chernobyl
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Where to look: Max (United States), Sky / Now TV (UK)
Chernobyl is a dramatization of the events that created a post-apocalyptic desert near Pripyat, then is part of the Soviet Union in 1986. And it is almost unbearable, a mastery of tension and an imminent horror.
For the Australian, the short season was “created with impressive attention to precision and historical details, brought this heartbreaking event with frightening clarity and a superbly orchestrated feeling of danger and dread”. And Collider said that “Chernobyl is a series where you should remember to get rid of your jaw and not to stretch your shoulders while looking at it. It’s heartbreaking and intense “.
For polygon: “Five partly of HBO Chernobyl The series is perhaps one of the best examples of cosmic horror that has ever been filmed, and this feat is made more impressive by the fact that the program is based on real events. “And Vanity Fair said that the show” is not only excellent television; It is the historical narration that changes paradigm, the kind of tale that changes, always so subtly, the texture of the real world. “”
