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First an answer: yes,

It is not even necessary to have played it, although that experience will improve the relationship that one has with its television version.

Until two days ago I had never played

, despite being surrounded by people who revere this creation from the Naughty Dog company, one of the most successful video games in history.

Also, if we trust the experts (and we do), one of the best.

It was with these enormous expectations that I approached the Craig Mazin series.

Also with the memory of the last derivative of

, a video game that I have played and whose inconsequential movies I have enjoyed very much.

Not so from the series that Netflix released relatively recently.

What a shit.

More expectations: I already knew that

is not a constant fast action game, that its visual quality is impeccable and that it had been enduring the

without problems for almost a decade .

And then I put on his first episode.

It opens with an intro that is fast-paced and spectacular.

Then he willingly submits to such direct parallels with

that at times it seems like he's not going to get over it.

Then its protagonist, Pedro Pascal, leaves room for two women: Tess (Anna Torv, always perfect), who will catalyze the plot of the series by starting it up, and the almost girl Ellie (Bella Ramsay, the Lianna Mormont from Game of Thrones ).

.

They work great.

Everything flows, everything is fine.

Created by Craig Mazin, author who after

jumped to the very first division of the series,

is a complicated and somewhat cursed project.

If video game adaptations tend to be treacherous, let's think of

.

Mazin faces this condition with cunning, making the series exactly replicate moments from the video game, but also knowing how to get out of them to have his own soul.

To write this I have finally put myself before the console with a copy of

Us and now I understand the furor with the series that its followers have.

Now I see how Craig Mazin submits to the source material and at the same time makes it his own.

"From the author of

" is a slogan that could well be used to sell this series.

There are few more chilling nature stories than those of ants turned into non-living automata after being infected by

fungi .

In

, these primitive organisms manage to attack humans, turning them into violent hybrid monsters.

That haunting premise spawned a legendary video game that is now also a series.

For once,

or.

Everything could have gone wrong with

and everything has gone right.

Wonderful.

And how scary.

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