The clock is ticking down for the release of HBO Max’s highly anticipated The Last of Us television adaptation, and fans of the game will no doubt continue frothing at the mouth with excitement with every passing second. The acclaim the show has gotten from reviewers with early screeners has surely also been shoveling coal into this particular hype train.
But, as with any acclaimed property, there’s always an outlier; Insider’s Kirsten Acuna, in one of 2023’s biggest entertainment deviations so far, gave a lukewarm review of the upcoming nine-episode series. Her claim is an especially weighty one, as her work as a prominent The Walking Dead correspondent means she’s all too familiar with analyzing human-centric, zombie-adjacent content, and it’s caused quite the conversation on Twitter.