Watching the first episode of HBO’s new original series “The Last of Us” was simultaneously a déjà vu and jamais vu experience.
If you’ve played the videogames as much as I have (especially the first one), then you’ll quickly recognize the shape and architecture of the levels within the scenes.
There’s the quarantine zone (QZ) where our grizzled and world-weary anti-hero Joel, played by Pedro Pascal (“The Mandalorian”), finds himself after surviving the initial wave of infection. Full of familiar happenings, the QZ is run by FEDRA, the alphabet pseudo-health agency ala FEMA militarized to deal with a pandemic where the infected maim and bite to spread itself to other hosts.
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