The series features Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, and more. Unfortunately, after the first episode aired, the series was available to watch and download online for free.
The Last Of Us opens with a dire warning: It's not viral outbreaks that we need to worry about, but the potential for a deadly fungal epidemic where the fungus spreads across people, taking over their minds and bodies and turning them into pieces of a mushroom hive.
HBO's super-sized series premiere saw Joel (Pedro Pascal) recover from trauma and find a new purpose in Ellie (Bella Ramsey), plus some video game callbacks.
On that basis, the super-dimensional “When You're Lost in the Darkness” turns out pretty well. All episodes of the season cover somewhat familiar ground, but the premiere crosses perhaps the most familiar part of that ground.
As I believe Leo Tolstoy once said, all zombie apocalypses are alike, but each post-apocalypse is miserable in its own way.