The Last of (Series 1) of The Last of Us
(Some mild spoilers) I came to this series with absolutely no expectations apart from something along the lines of Walking Dead. I never played the game that The Last of Us is based on because..... well I don't play computer games*. I don't mind a zombie storyline but get bored if it is just new ways for zombies to come at the heroes for hours on end. So, it was all a bit of an unknown. If you have been in an internet free dungeon for the past 9 weeks, the plot is based around a human pandemic from a mutation of the fungus that in the real world turns ants into zombie. The first episode was all a bit standard apocalyptic fare, but I liked the way the storyline with Joel and his daughter played out differently from the usual, and of course now that makes perfect sense. From the second episode on, we are dumped into a world 20 years on from the outbreak, with plenty of flashbacks, sometimes taking up a whole episode. A quest to...