{"id":1698,"date":"2026-08-15T17:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T23:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2026-08-15T17:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T23:30:12","slug":"the-last-of-us-fell-from-86-to-39-with-audiences-on-rt-season-3-is-leaning-into-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=1698","title":{"rendered":"The Last Of Us Fell From 86% To 39% With Audiences On RT &amp; Season 3 Is Leaning Into Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When <em><a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/db\/tv-show\/the-last-of-us\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Last of Us<\/strong><\/a><\/em> premiered in 2023, it was a <em>Game of Thrones<\/em>-sized blockbuster hit for HBO, it reinvigorated the post-apocalyptic genre, and it launched Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey to superstardom. <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/last-of-us-season-1-deaths-ranked\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Last of Us<\/em> season 1 was universally acclaimed<\/a> by critics, but it was universally beloved by audiences, too, with an 86% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, which is even trickier to pull off.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When The Last of Us premiered in 2023, it was a Game of Thrones-sized blockbuster hit for HBO, it reinvigorated the post-apocalyptic genre, and it launched Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey to superstardom. The Last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}