HBO’s The Last of Us episode is free on YouTube, but there’s a catch

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Even YouTube wants you to watch The Last of Us.

The HBO series The Last of Us has been a roaring success, adapting the game brilliantly and changing things up just enough to keep the experience fresh. If you haven’t gotten into the series yet but are interested in watching it, the first episode has been added to YouTube. Be warned though, it’s not available to everyone.

UK broadcaster Sky TV has uploaded the first episode for everyone to watch, but only if you’re in the UK. Everyone else who tries gets the popular message “The uploader hasn’t made this video available in your country”. That doesn’t mean you can’t watch it over a VPN, but there’s no way to access it without tricks.

Aside from the whole UK thing, there’s no other catch here. You can just watch the whole episode without having to use HBO Max. This is a surprising move for something that would normally hide behind a paywall. However, this might be just the flavor to get you hooked and The Pilot will be the only episode offered this way.

Sky TV and HBO have long histories, so it’s certainly unlikely that a US-based broadcaster could be accorded the same privilege. So if you’re in the United States, you can only watch the show as an HBO/HBO Max subscriber.

A sequel is almost guaranteed given the large number of viewers who have turned up for the series. With that in mind, we’ve compiled a list of actresses who could play Abby Anderson if The Last of Us Part 2 is adapted.