‘The Last of Us’ Reveals the Best of Us

Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal star in The Last Of Us. (Photo by Liane Hentscher/HBO via Alamy)
Why we’re right to be jealous of the Americans in HBO’s post-apocalyptic dystopia.
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In the third episode of HBO’s The Last of Us, a survivalist named Bill finds a man trapped in the hole he has dug on his property. Terrified that the intruder is infected with the fungus sweeping the globe and turning human hosts into vampiric zombies, Bill points a gun at the man and demands to know if he’s armed.
At first, the man wonders whether he s…
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