Have hope for "The Last of Us," a drama about enduring at the end of the world, not just surviving
SalonShockingly enough, the pandemic seems to have depleted our appetite for apocalypse fantasy. If their brief lifespans are an indicator of the longevity odds of "The Last of Us," HBO's high-budget video game adaptation would seem to have a difficult if not impassable road ahead of it – and not merely due to our presumed fatigue with scripts about some impending version of Earth's big Game Over. Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey in "The Last of Us" Here she gets to play the part of a playful, curious, and tough 14-year-old who was born after the virulent fungal outbreak decimates humanity. There's a place for non-violent TV drama about how the world continues after society falls; for the time being, that role is played quite well by "Station Eleven." "The Last of Us," in contrast, admirably services its original constituency through a lightning-paced depiction of its end-of-days' opening act, and it adequately pays homage to the adrenaline-spiking chaos that is the survival horror genre's selling point.
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