HBO’s celebrated TV adaptation of The Last of Us has provoked quite a few notable conversations online since it premiered in January: is Pedro Pascal the ultimate Dad? How many references to both video games — 2013’s The Last Of Us and 2020’s The Last of Us Part II — are there per episode? Are the Infected — the humans controlled by the Cordyceps fungi — actually considered zombies? How many times did you cry throughout the heart-breaking third episode? (I believe it was four, for me.) One conversation that no one was expecting, however, is what happened to George W. Bush?
One thing that has gotten lost in the shuffle of the topic du jour of reacting to each episode as they happen has been when the outbreak started. In the games, Outbreak Day — which serve as both the prologue to the game and the majority of the first episode of the series — took place in 2013, and the games hops forward twenty years into 2033. Showrunners Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann (who also co-directed the original game) shifted the start of the outbreak by a decade into 2003, which of course means that Joel and Ellie are in a much different cultural landscape than they were before.
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