‘The Last of Us’ review: ‘The Walking Dead’ meets ‘Station Eleven’ in this HBO adaptation of the video game
Based on the video game of the same name, HBO’s “The Last of Us” is a post-apocalyptic story about a population that has been decimated by a pandemic. Instead of a COVID-like virus, the culprit is a parasitic fungus that turns people into zombies, spreading the sickness and its long, fibrous mutations with just a bite.
Life is either dreary, precarious and haphazard in urban militarized zones, or people are making do on their own in rural pockets of the United States. Society has collapsed and it’s every person for themself. Don’t trust anyone.
Amid all this uncertainty, a grizzled smuggler (Pedro Pascal) is tasked with looking after
