Editor’s note: The below contains spoilers for Episode 2 of The Last of Us.HBO’s new series, The Last of Us, has made big waves in only a few weeks.
Based on a video game of the same name, the show tells the story of a few survivors trying to make it in a dangerous, post-apocalyptic world.
After a mutated disease infects much of the population, the world is in a permanent military state.
The infected, who quickly become a type of zombie, are banned from the cities where the survivors live.
But after two decades of this sort of control, resistance groups look to take over the situation.
The show follows Joel (Pedro Pascal), a former soldier and grieving father, as he takes the spunky, 14-year-old Ellie (Bella Ramsey), who has the ability to resist the virus, to doctors who are looking for a cure.
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