The Last of Us Premiere Overtakes House of the Dragon in Streaming Era; Fans Create 80’s Live Action Sitcom Version of the Show

The Last of Us HBO series is the live-action adaptation of Naughty Dog’s hit title that released all the way back in 2013. The story sees the two protagonists, Joel played by Pedro Pascal and Ellie played by Bella Ramsey journey across the Infected infested, post-apocalyptic United States.

The Last of US series has taken the world by storm as it gets appreciations all around. The show has not only been rated well by critics, but also also received praises from the general audience. Every episode of the show ends up breaking the record set by the previous one.

It’s been a long time, Tommy.

A new episode of #TheLastOfUs is streaming now on @HBOMax. pic.twitter.com/RZY9TlVrN4

— The Last of Us (@TheLastofUsHBO) February 20, 2023

Through its spectacular performance, The Last of Us has manage to overtake another popular HBO series in terms of minutes viewed for their premiere episodes. A report by Nielsen, states that The Last of Us series managed to amass 837 million minutes during its debut week. This number marginally surpasses the number set by House of the Dragon which comes in at 741 million minutes according to a report by Deadline.

Making its countdown debut, we see the first of @HBOMax’s #TheLastofUs on our charts–with over 837 million minutes viewed; it’s quite the debut. pic.twitter.com/a2GutGRB0F

— Nielsen (@nielsen) February 16, 2023

The Last of Us Visualised as 80’s Live Action Sitcom Through AI

The capabilities of Artificial Intelligence are through the roof lately. We have been seeing a lot of AI-generated content off lately, which consists of text and images. The capability of this software is so high that many people released unthinkable AI Generated versions of already existing movies, personalities, events and more.

For an example, The Last of Us has just been turned into an 80s live-action sitcom with the help of AI. Through the video uploaded by Dan Taveras Music on YouTube, we see the likes Joel, Ellie, Tess, Marlene and other characters from the show (even the Infected) revisualised in an 80s live action sitcom theme. Though the images are fun to look at, they do not end up capturing the essence of The Last of Us at all.