Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-13 (Sunday)

On Apr 14, 2025 at 7:26:01 PM PDT, "Arthur Lipscomb"
<arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

On 4/14/2025 6:28 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

 BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

 Apr 14, 2025 1:45:51 PM PDT, Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>:

 

 The Last of Us (HBO) - "Future Days" - Season 2, episode 1.  Things pick
 up with Joel and Ellie now living in Wyoming and Ellie being annoying.
 This feels like a show I could dump pretty easily and not miss.

 

 For me, it's all about Ellie. She really kills the show for me. And it's not
 the character, it's the actress. She's just off-putting to me for some
reason.
 Same show with a different lead and I'd like it a *lot* more.

 

 
I suspect you're right.

Someone like Cailee Spaeny (ALIEN: ROMULUS, CIVIL WAR) would have been perfect
for the role and would do a much better job with it. Heck, if they'd cast the
girl who plays her love interest (Isabella Merced) as Ellie, she would've been
a vast improvement.