[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “The Last of Us” Episode 2, “Infected.”]It’s an easy shortcut to start unpacking an episode with the opening sequence and I promise that’s not going to be the case for the next two months.
But it’s worth pointing out the first two cold opens in “The Last of Us” do just as much to build a sense of global unease as any overheard news report or Oval Office address or TV test pattern could.
In “Infected,” the series’ second episode, the late-’60s public affairs roundtable gives way to Dr.
Ibu Ratna (a magnificent Christine Hakim), a scientist and professor shown as one of the first people to recognize that humanity was in real trouble.If last week’s first episode didn’t do enough to prime a viewing audience for a short supply of hope early on in “The Last of Us,” here’s an expert
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