Finally, today, naughty dog released the last of us season 1 episode 5. From my perspective, in the 5 episodes we know the background story is packaged quite well, even though there are some scenes that are missed from video games. For example, in video games, there is a scene where Henry's group and Joel's group are trying to get out of a city controlled by hunter groups, heading to the bridge, jumping towards the beach area, then entering the tunnel hole to the residential area. But in the HBO version of the series, they pass through the station, the residential area of FEDRA and head straight for the residential area. There is no scene depicting Joel hitting Henry because Henry just left Joel when he was attacked by a group of hunters.
In the HBO version of the series, there is no spore area that requires the joel group to wear gas masks. That's not a problem as long as the storyline runs as it should.
In episode 3, there is a piece of the story that doesn't exist in video games, namely the story of how Bill survives in Lincoln, a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts (Bill's Town). Bill finds a survivor named Frank. At first frank was almost sent away by bill. But Bill instead decided to agree to Frank's request to live in Bill's Town. Until they married with the status of 'Gay'. In the end of the story they died and wrote letters to everyone including Joel who was going to Bill's Town.
In episode 2, there is also a piece of story related to the source of a fungus that can infect living things. Indonesia is the only country that made it into the last of us scene even though the shooting was not in Indonesia, but in Canada. They recruited 2 professional actors who previously almost refused due to age and the ongoing Covid-19.
Conclusion in the 5 episodes in the series 'the last of us', I don't know how many episodes are in season 1. But I give it 5 stars because all aspects are packaged well. We will find out at the end of this story whether it will give more satisfaction to the audience or vice versa. Therefore, I recommend that you keep watching until the end of the episode.