Can The Last of Us Bring Zombies Back to Life?

Опубликовано 14 января 2023, 14:30

After an extremely impressive 12-year run, the ending of The Walking Dead is the final bolt through the decaying brain that was the late ‘aughts zombie craze. The flagship show is over, and while The Walking Dead IP itself endures in spinoffs and such, the ghastly torch of the zombie genre has been passed to a new bearer: HBO’s The Last of Us.

The cable and streaming giant has high hopes for the series, but if you take away the smash hit game, soulful characters and big Hollywood names, it’s a boilerplate zombie apocalypse with a fresh coat of fungus. 

That might seem a bit passe now, which is why the marketing of the show kinda seems to be avoiding the Z-word at all costs. Fans of the game know that the real appeal is in the craft and details of Naughty Dog’s ruined world, the brutality of its stealth-action gameplay, and of course, the incredible characters whose very existence sets the internet ablaze. 

Those who may not have heard of The Last of Us may roll their eyes upon discovering that it is, at its core, yet another zombie story, but it wasn’t all that long ago that zombies were a bonafide cultural phenomenon. So let’s examine where the franchise fits in the genre, and try to figure out if The Last of Us can bring zombies back to life!

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