When it comes to seeing numbers, The last of us Season 2 is bigger than a swelling, and in particular, bigger than the first season too.
Where season 1 attracted 4.7 million viewers for their debut, which makes it the second most watched HBO premiere in more than a decade, the first episode of The last of us Season 2 reached 5.3 million people.
The last of us It has been a great success for HBO. As Variety reports, the first season reached 8.2 million people with its end and this second season had an even stronger start.
What makes it one of Max’s best shows is that the characters feel incredibly real, and that means that their stress is our stress, his fear is our fear, his losses are our losses. And if that is the kind of things you like, Max has many more programs that offer the same type of experience, although in very different environments.
While these other shows may not be full of infected, they are as contagious as cordyceps; If you are looking for programs that will hook you absolutely The last of us I do it, I think you will love it.
The Pitt
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Where to look: Max (USA), Foxtel now / binge (AU)
The hospital in The Pitt It is not as gloomy as we saw at the end of The last of us Season 1 and in flashback in season 2. But it is not a Christmas resort either.
Noah ‘Er’ Wyle and a spectacularly strong cast are doctors in a Pittsburgh Er, and in the course of 15 hours nail bites, the threads of history join in a horrible event that pushes everyone involved and, sometimes, beyond, their limits.
There is no zombies here, but there is a ton of humanity while we follow residents, nurses and patients during a single marathon day. 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 your heart broken and repaired several times by episode, it is just a matter of how.”
True detective
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Where to look: Max (USA), Sky / Now TV (United Kingdom)
During your four seasons True detectiveThe quality of the quality: season 1 has a 92% critical qualification of Rotten Tomatoes, while the second season of its part, it is already probable that it would not even break half of the brand. But it is worth seeing the first, third and fourth season of this intense, strange already deeply disturbing police drama.
The first season was “one of the best detective programs that was broadcast on television,” said CBR, while Rogerebert.com praised Los Leads: “[Matthew] McConaughey and [Woody] Harrelson not only completes these characters, but also disappear in them, offering two of the best performances you will see on television or cinema all this year. “
Season 2 … Let’s not go there. Instead, we go to the third season and the magnificent Mahershala Ali. Digital Spy spoke for many: “Come by unraveling the mystery of Arkansas, but stay for the fascinating Tour de Force that is Mahershala Ali and will not disappoint you this last exit.” Los Angeles magazine agreed. “Ali is not in all scenes in true detective; it seems that it seems. The program is Ali’s masterpiece.”
One question arose again and again: where are women? In response, season 4 put Issa López in the director’s seat and Jodie Foster and Kali Reis Center Stage for a disturbing snow nightmare.
“The Renaissance led by Jodie Goster balances supernatural flourishing with clearly human horrors,” said the New Yorker. And Rogerebert.com described it very well: “A fascinating study of murder, misogyny, racism, cycles of abuse and possibly something out of HP Lovecraft,”Night‘It will shake you. “
Chernobyl
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Where to look: Max (USA), Sky / Now TV (United Kingdom)
Chernobyl It is a dramatization of the events that created a post-apocalyptic moor near Pripyat, then part of the Soviet Union, in 1986. And it is almost unbearable, a master class in imminent tension and horror.
For the Australian, the brief season was “created with an impressive attention to historical precision and details, brought that heartbreaking event with terrifying clarity and a sense of danger and fear excellently orchestrated.” And Collider said that “Chernobyl It is a series in which you will have to remind yourself to designate your jaw and not tighten your shoulders while you look at it. It is heartbreaking and intense. “
For the polygon: “The five parts of HBO Chernobyl The series is perhaps one of the best examples of cosmic horror that has been filmed, and that feat is more impressive due to the fact that the program is based on real world events. “And Vanity Fair said the program” is not just an excellent television; It is a historical narrative that changes paradigm, the type of story that alters, always subtly, the texture of the real world. “
