The last of us It is, as far as series is concerned, an oasis that we were looking forward to reaching. It is finding a diamond among so much mediocrity. It’s like having bad relationships and after your last breakupfind that person who turns out to be perfect for you. The last of us It’s that hidden gem that when you catch it, you don’t want to let go.
It’s a well-rounded series not only because the story is fantastic (yes, I declare myself an absolute fan of videogames), but also because the actors are brilliant and the production is absolutely wonderful. But despite all that, the HBO Max series is suffering review bombingand we tell you what it is and what really hides so many bad reviews.
what is the review bombing
This term was already used with video games and refers to a shower of criticism from users who manage to stone the launch of a new project. But be careful because there is a nuance. This is not what happened, for example, with the Cyberpunk, which became a total failure because the game was full of bugs. It’s about there being mass negative criticism of certain audiovisual products such as series, films and video games, for reasons unrelated to production and with a sociopolitical overtone.
It is not about giving our opinion about something. Would not be review bombing if we’re on a first date with someone we’re meeting (this is just for context) and we decide to go to the movies to see avatar 2. The movie seems bad to us (sorry James Cameron, but We still don’t understand the Oscar nomination) and when we left we gave our opinion on Twitter. if we talk about review bombing What we do is issue a value judgment in which what is least valued is the quality or not of Avatar.
This boom in criticism is partly caused by social networks that give us a channel to comment on everything and that this opinion reaches many more people (that they tell it to the good of Selena Gomez), with the effect that this can have on the sale of games, on the box office if it is a movie or on subscriptions if it is a series on a streaming platform.
We saw it with the series of The Lord of the Rings, The Rings of Power on Amazon Prime Video, which received review bombing due to the fact that black elves existed and social networks were filled with criticism of the series. The little Mermaid he also suffered. Now repeat with The last of us.
The review bombing in The last of us and the homophobia that hides
When I went to the premiere of The last of us I found it not only wonderful, but also one of the best HBO series of recent years.
But let’s talk about what brings us here, and that is that the third episode has been the victim of review bombing and like that, we believe that what it really hides is homophobia.
The third chapter called long long timethe best to date for the expert critic and also for us, is brilliant in form and substance and has such a beautiful story that it could be on any list of best love stories. But it is carried out by a homosexual couple and this fact has provoked the feared review bombing.
Our Espinof colleagues analyze it. On Metacritic, the first two episodes of the HBO series feature ratings of 8.7 Y 8.8 respectively. The mean of ‘When you’re lost in the dark’ is drawn from 277 positive evaluations, 11 mixed and 19 negativewhile that of ‘Infected’ does so 277 positive, 11 mixed and 19 negative. The discordant note is given by ‘Mucho, mucho tiempo’: a note of 4.3 taken from 263 positive evaluations, 34 mixed and 401 negative. If we look closely, the sum of positive and mixed is in line with the total of reviews of the two previous chapters; but to this one would have to add those of four hundred people who, curiously, did not bother to rate the other two weeks.”
But not only that. Metacritic’s comments endorse and reiterate what the data shows us because we can read things like “Enough of the LGBT agenda”, “Another woke shit to make people soft”, “Uncomfortable to watch”, “Disgusting chapter of forced inclusion” or “Why LGBT? Why not teach a heterosexual couple?”. It’s not by chance, is review bombing and hides homophobia no matter where you look.
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