The Last of Us - HBO TV show (With game spoilers)

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Anonymous wrote:What would you say is a good min age for this?

My 13 year old dd is watching it with us and has played the game with her dad but I don't think I would allow a younger child to watch it..

Really depends on the kid. My 12 yo is watching with us but my 13 yo has no interest bc he hates scary movies.

Thank you. As somebody who hates scary movies, I am hesitant to watch this, let alone let my kids watch it. But I did watch the first half of the first episode. Is that as scary as it gets or does it get worse?

The first half? Before the zombie outbreak? There are a lot of zombies to come.

Episode 2 was much scarier. My 12 yo spent a lot of time under a blanket while I narrated the action.

Episode 2 seemed like TWD combined with Stranger Things with the zombies with swollen heads, with the fungus growing into the ground and how they're all interconnected.

I wouldn't let my 12 yr old watch it but he is the sensitive type who gets nightmares.

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Anonymous wrote:What would you say is a good min age for this?

14.

No way. I am 35 and terrified of this show. I think 16 is a min but it's probably a case by case.

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Anonymous wrote:What would you say is a good min age for this?

My 13 year old dd is watching it with us and has played the game with her dad but I don't think I would allow a younger child to watch it..

Really depends on the kid. My 12 yo is watching with us but my 13 yo has no interest bc he hates scary movies.

Thank you. As somebody who hates scary movies, I am hesitant to watch this, let alone let my kids watch it. But I did watch the first half of the first episode. Is that as scary as it gets or does it get worse?

The first half? Before the zombie outbreak? There are a lot of zombies to come.

Episode 2 was much scarier. My 12 yo spent a lot of time under a blanket while I narrated the action.

Episode 2 seemed like TWD combined with Stranger Things with the zombies with swollen heads, with the fungus growing into the ground and how they're all interconnected.

I wouldn't let my 12 yr old watch it but he is the sensitive type who gets nightmares.

That's settled. No one in my family will be watching. You saved me the horror.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s good so far. But I wonder why we have so many zombie movies and tv shows. What’s the larger zeitgeist creating all this?

Um jus a little global pandemic

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I'm really put off by mushrooms now.

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Anonymous wrote:What would you say is a good min age for this?

14.

No way. I am 35 and terrified of this show. I think 16 is a min but it's probably a case by case.

Lol in the 90s all the scary TV show on yahoo clubs were flooded with 13-16 year olds.

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Anonymous wrote:What would you say is a good min age for this?

14.

No way. I am 35 and terrified of this show. I think 16 is a min but it's probably a case by case.

Lol in the 90s all the scary TV show on yahoo clubs were flooded with 13-16 year olds.

Yes and one of them was me and I definitely had nightmares but continued to watch scary movies

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure I can continue this show. The zombies are very scary and there were a lot of zombies last night. I look forward to the part where they live in a community in Alexandria and it's mostly humans versus humans, haha.

Are you confusing this show with TWD and the Alexandria Free Zone?

Haha, at least you got my reference but this may have been a joke, party of one. I did love how TWD had Alexandria as a rural area and single lane streets.

DP. I got your reference and laughed!

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So far, I'm intrigued. I've always love dystopian genres, way before our own pandemic. I think the very scariest part so far was in Ep. 1 when Sarah is at the neighbor's house looking at the video shelf, and we see a blurry image in the background of the elderly woman and... her face. OMG. Scared the wits out of me.

The premise of the fungus is a new one, so that makes it a more unusual storyline.

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Anonymous wrote:reviews? is this good? also can anyone tell me about the level of gore/violence per episode? (easily squicked!)

It looks interesting but I was busy this weekend so I didn't watch any TV.

+1 to the bolded part. From looking around online, reviews say it IS gory, but I wish I could have specific reactions from my target demographics: abuse survivors.

If anyone on DCUM is a survivor of domestic violence of just physical violence, your nervous system is probably wired like mine - how do you react to this show? I'm considering watching it but it typically takes me days to calm down my nervous system before watching anything remotely scary. (Yep, being an abuse survivor means living like this. The "cost of repair" is on us.)

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Anonymous wrote:reviews? is this good? also can anyone tell me about the level of gore/violence per episode? (easily squicked!)

It looks interesting but I was busy this weekend so I didn't watch any TV.

+1 to the bolded part. From looking around online, reviews say it IS gory, but I wish I could have specific reactions from my target demographics: abuse survivors.

If anyone on DCUM is a survivor of domestic violence of just physical violence, your nervous system is probably wired like mine - how do you react to this show? I'm considering watching it but it typically takes me days to calm down my nervous system before watching anything remotely scary. (Yep, being an abuse survivor means living like this. The "cost of repair" is on us.)

I am not your target but if it is helpful I will try to describe the violence without spoilers and say that the violence so far has not been domestic violence type events. The core character is a dad who loves his daughter very much and wants to protect her. There is a scene with a woman getting knocked around but it is more of like...competing crime family violence? IE, there are two factions and they accidentally hit her and then are freaked out that her people will come after them if they let her go. But that is a woman in a vulnerable position surrounded by men.

Beyond that there is a lot of the type of militaristic violence that happens in shows like this where innocent civilians are shot at/mistreated by soldiers. But no r@pe or anything s*xual in nature (so far). I guess I will make a slight addendum that there is a scene I forgot about where one of the zombies 'kisses' someone but it is more like...viscerally disgusting/horrifying way of passing on the virus then an assault? That is all I can think of in addition to the standard like, zombies eating people, gross zombies generally type stuff.

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Anonymous wrote:reviews? is this good? also can anyone tell me about the level of gore/violence per episode? (easily squicked!)

It looks interesting but I was busy this weekend so I didn't watch any TV.

+1 to the bolded part. From looking around online, reviews say it IS gory, but I wish I could have specific reactions from my target demographics: abuse survivors.

If anyone on DCUM is a survivor of domestic violence of just physical violence, your nervous system is probably wired like mine - how do you react to this show? I'm considering watching it but it typically takes me days to calm down my nervous system before watching anything remotely scary. (Yep, being an abuse survivor means living like this. The "cost of repair" is on us.)

I am not your target but if it is helpful I will try to describe the violence without spoilers and say that the violence so far has not been domestic violence type events. The core character is a dad who loves his daughter very much and wants to protect her. There is a scene with a woman getting knocked around but it is more of like...competing crime family violence? IE, there are two factions and they accidentally hit her and then are freaked out that her people will come after them if they let her go. But that is a woman in a vulnerable position surrounded by men.

Beyond that there is a lot of the type of militaristic violence that happens in shows like this where innocent civilians are shot at/mistreated by soldiers. But no r@pe or anything s*xual in nature (so far). I guess I will make a slight addendum that there is a scene I forgot about where one of the zombies 'kisses' someone but it is more like...viscerally disgusting/horrifying way of passing on the virus then an assault? That is all I can think of in addition to the standard like, zombies eating people, gross zombies generally type stuff.

thank you! this is really helpful, and not as bad as I thought. this really helps

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For goodness sake - just don't watch it if there's any chance it will disturb you.

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Anonymous wrote:reviews? is this good? also can anyone tell me about the level of gore/violence per episode? (easily squicked!)

It looks interesting but I was busy this weekend so I didn't watch any TV.

+1 to the bolded part. From looking around online, reviews say it IS gory, but I wish I could have specific reactions from my target demographics: abuse survivors.

If anyone on DCUM is a survivor of domestic violence of just physical violence, your nervous system is probably wired like mine - how do you react to this show? I'm considering watching it but it typically takes me days to calm down my nervous system before watching anything remotely scary. (Yep, being an abuse survivor means living like this. The "cost of repair" is on us.)

I am not your target but if it is helpful I will try to describe the violence without spoilers and say that the violence so far has not been domestic violence type events. The core character is a dad who loves his daughter very much and wants to protect her. There is a scene with a woman getting knocked around but it is more of like...competing crime family violence? IE, there are two factions and they accidentally hit her and then are freaked out that her people will come after them if they let her go. But that is a woman in a vulnerable position surrounded by men.

Beyond that there is a lot of the type of militaristic violence that happens in shows like this where innocent civilians are shot at/mistreated by soldiers. But no r@pe or anything s*xual in nature (so far). I guess I will make a slight addendum that there is a scene I forgot about where one of the zombies 'kisses' someone but it is more like...viscerally disgusting/horrifying way of passing on the virus then an assault? That is all I can think of in addition to the standard like, zombies eating people, gross zombies generally type stuff.

thank you! this is really helpful, and not as bad as I thought. this really helps

No problem happy to be helpful! I can post a summary like this after this weekends episode too

[Anonymous]

Tonight’s episode was one of the best things I have ever seen on television.