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‘The Last of Us’ May Be the First Zombie Show Worthy of Your Time
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‘The Last of Us’ May Be the First Zombie Show Worthy of Your Time

Can flesh-eating zombies make for good television?

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Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsay in The Last of Us / HBO
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In the last twenty years, Hollywood has seen its fair share of zombie shows. But from Z Nation to The Walking Dead and all of its various spinoffs, it doesn’t exactly demand a critical eye to see that these worlds teeming with reanimated corpses fall somewhere shy of great television.

The Walking Dead displayed a lot of potential in its early episodes…

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