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What ‘The Last of Us’ Says About the Fragility of the Modern World
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What ‘The Last of Us’ Says About the Fragility of the Modern World

And what it means to be detached from our progress

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Bella Ramsay and Pedro Pascal as Joel and Ellie in The Last of Us as they look out over the remnants of a plane / HBO
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One of the aspects that makes HBO’s The Last of Us unique is the way that it drives home the swift loss of culture that occurs when a parasite sweeps the globe. Yet because the majority of the show takes place two decades after the initial outbreak, we watch people reflect back on that lost world in myriad ways. The days after the fungal infection go…

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