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The Last of Us Grows Up
There will always be infected, but this series excels when its characters consider how to be human.
Like The Last of Us Part II, the video game it’s adapted from, season two begins with a time jump of several years, flashing ahead to Joel and Ellie integrated into a well-defended, happily run community in Jackson, Colorado. There are plenty of big scary setpieces that echo the battle sequences season one did so well, with lots of video game–y devices like evolved enemies, new weapons, chest-high walls to crouch behind, and the necessity of relying on stealth combat over short-range carnage. As the action shifts away from Jackson and toward Seattle, Ellie and Dina encounter a cult of religious zealots called the Seraphites, and although they keep popping up throughout the show, season two has no time to get into who they are or what they’re trying to accomplish.
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