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Every week, the Must Watch podcasters review the biggest TV and streaming shows.

This week, Hayley Campbell and Scott Bryan join Naga Munchetty to review The Last of Us.

Starring Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey, the post apocalyptic thriller about zombie-like creatures continues, with the plot now following the sequel to the original game that the series is based on.

Naga: “Hayley, is it a Must Watch?”

Hayley: “I think I can say with total confidence that this is a must watch because I fully trust the writer Craig Mazin, who wrote the previous series. He also made Chernobyl, which was a show we loved on Must Watch.

“I really think The Last of Us is special. I think it's one of those rare shows that will please long-time fans of the game and also, non-gamer fans like me because it's in itself great.

“It has HBO money, so it looks and feels amazing, and it sticks to the plot of the video game but things that were minor plot points are expanded.

“So I think it does that thing that a good adaptation does, which is make itself worthy in itself. It's not just an animation or a real life version of the thing you already played.”

Hayley: “Well, I'm not spoiling anything, obviously, but the first scene is Pedro Pascal wearing glasses and fixing something. So I feel that this season might be too erotic for me.

“It's great. There are new characters, there are new threats. And the fact that the last season ended with the biggest lie Joel's ever told is right at the heart of everything that's about to happen.

“It’s all through the first episode, which is the only one I’ve watched so far because I want to save it so I have something to live for.”

Naga: “I've been looking at the publicity running up to this and the two main actors obviously doing a lot. They seem to get on, but really passionate about this as well.

“They've put a lot of effort into kind of getting this second series because people would have... because I was pleasantly surprised by the first series thinking this is going to be a load of rot, basically. Apocalyptic rot. Yeah.”

Scott: “But there's also been so many failures in video game adaptations. We've reviewed many over the years.

"I think it's incredibly hard to make them human, if that makes sense, but also get over the hurdle that Hayley was talking about, whether it feels as if you're playing a level rather than actually watching a plot spill out. And no spoilers with series two.

“It is a must watch for me. There are more central characters in the second series so far. So, the dynamics change, because in the first series, it was very much like here's Joel and Ellie doing this, here's Joel going here, here's Joel and Ellie now facing this sort of obstacle and now it feels a bit more it's much more like other prestige dramas in terms of there being more central characters."

Scott: “I think also just the look of it is just on point because Craig Mazin from Chernobyl, he's managed to carry over that apocalyptic... kind of cinematography and the hauntingness of it in such a kind of natural way in this show The Last of Us, because it opens with these two giraffes having a bit of food and you're going, 'why are there giraffes here'? Only to realise that they are from a zoo that they must have escaped from in this post-apocalyptic…”

“And the main thing I'm happy about is that this is based on the second book. So far, the creators of the show have said that they have no plans to go beyond the video game. Hopefully, we're not going to have a Game of Thrones circumstance where they're on the train still putting down the track at the same time.

“So for now, they've said at least for this series, and I think they've announced another series too, it's just going to be basically carrying on with the video game.”

Naga: “Do you have to have seen series one?”

Hayley: “Yes you do.”

Naga: “But I think that's a bit of a turn-off for a lot of people.”

Hayley: “Well, I think that's silly. I think in the age of…”

Naga: “Hold on a minute.”

Hayley: “No, you've put forward this argument before and I think it's ridiculous.”

Naga: “Why?”

Hayley: "Because... In the land of streaming, it's right there. It's not like you missed the TV show in the 90s and your mum didn't tape it on the video so you can't watch it. It is right there and it's great so you should. So it shouldn't feel like, oh I have to watch this. You get to watch it.”

Naga: “Sometimes if you don't have the time and you want to be part of the conversation with this series it is too much.”

Hayley: “You have to put something in to get something out.”

The first episode of The Last of Us season 2 is available to watch on Sky Atlantic and the streaming service NOW, with a new episode available every Monday morning at 2am.

But before all that, why not contact Scott and Hayley with the shows you’ve been loving, loathing or both on mustwatch@bbc.co.uk.

This week, the team reviewed Barristers: Fighting for Justice and Diamond Heist.

Must Watch is released as a podcast every Monday evening on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Sounds.