‘The Last of Us’ Season 2's Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score Gets Infected by Review Bombers

It would appear that the trolls are out of their caves. Despite the best efforts of Rotten Tomatoes to prevent this sort of thing, the second season of HBO's The Last of Usseems to have become a victim of review-bombing. This is when a group of disgruntled viewers make a collective effort to manipulate a film or show's rating on aggregator platforms. One look at The Last of Us' Rotten Tomatoes page might make the casual observer curious to know how a show that has been so widely acclaimed can have such a dismal audience rating. The answer is often very simple.