![]() ![]() The intense but bloated 81-minute pilot runs up a high body count, making clear that there is minimal plot armor to go around here.Įllie may or may not be the savior of humanity, but she certainly rescues “The Last of Us” from apocalyptic mope. Joel (Pedro Pascal), a construction contractor in Texas, starts his birthday in 2003 eating breakfast with his family and ends it amid the chaos of civilization’s collapse. ![]() The series kicks off in Standard Apocalypse-Onset Mode. The emotional connection moves more slow-and-steady, but it eventually gets there. So the mayhem comes quickly in this series. In the taxonomy of horror, its undead are “fast zombies,” as opposed to the shambling hordes in old-time creature features. An ophiocordyceps fungus, akin to the real-life one that ghoulishly takes over the bodies of ants, mutates to infest humans, turning civilization into a global mushroom farm. HBO’s high-gloss zombie thriller “The Last of Us,” beginning on Sunday, offers a biological twist on its cataclysm. From “Station Eleven” to “12 Monkeys,” “The Walking Dead” to “The Stand,” “Y: The Last Man” to “The Last Man on Earth,” this is the way the world ends, and ends, and ends. I’m referring here not to Covid-19 but to the many plagues that have kicked off TV apocalypses in recent years. ![]() You would be forgiven for suffering, at this point, from pandemic fatigue. ![]()
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