The Last of Us · Season 1 · JioHotstar
The Last of Us Season 1
The Last of Us Season 1 is a MUST-WATCH, BollyMeter 9.0/10. 9 episodes on JioHotstar from 15 January 2023.
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What BollyAI Thinks
Season 1 entered the conversation around prestige TV's best first seasons almost immediately. The Pedro Pascal-Bella Ramsey pairing supplied the emotional core, but the show distinguished itself through structural ambition: standalone episodes that paused the main journey to excavate backstory with feature-film patience. Critics aligned at 96% across 489 reviews, and the 86% audience approval was unusually high for a post-apocalyptic drama with genuinely punishing emotional stakes. The show managed what few game adaptations have: it respected the source's emotional logic rather than just its plot.
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Standout Episodes
The hours worth arguing about - premieres, finales, and the turning points. BollyAI reads the room episode by episode.
- E1When You're Lost in the Darkness8.8
A tense premiere about failed control, powered by ruthless structure and slightly overworked setup around Ellie’s handoff.
The moment: The 2003 prologue’s final minutes establish in the series’s first hour that it will not protect anyone the story has just made viewers care about.
Full review of E1 → - E3Long, Long Time9.1
A tender detour turns survival into a rulebook for grief, with one expository stretch the hour nearly outruns.
The moment: Bill and Frank's final morning - Offerman utterly still, the camera holding, twenty years of love making the silence unbearable.
Full review of E3 → - E5Endure and Survive9.4
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.
The moment: Sam's fate and Henry's response - the season's most devastating thirty seconds, no preparation, no cushion.
Full review of E5 → - E9Look for the Light9.5
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.
The moment: Joel lies to Ellie on the drive home - she accepts it, knowing - and the silence between them carries the entire season's emotional mass.
Full review of E9 →