In 2013, Naughty Dog — a video game developer — unleashed “The Last of Us” on Playstation to critical acclaim and huge sales at stores. The game sold over 1.3 million copies in the first week and less than a year after the game was released a film adaptation was already in the works. 

Unfortunately, just two years later the film was languishing in development hell and the rights to the adaptation eventually reverted back to original creator Neil Druckmann. Then in 2019, Druckmann was introduced to Craig Mazin, who was fresh off an Emmy win for his series “Chernobyl” and the two immediately hit it off, especially when they started talking about a fresh new idea to adapt “The Last of Us” into a TV series rather than a film. 

A week later they were pitching the idea to HBO and it didn’t take long for the network to bite on the project with an order given to develop the series in 2020. Druckmann and Mazin worked hand-in-hand to stay faithful to the original story from the game while injecting new life into a nine-episode first season that ended up building an audience that rivaled the “Game of Thrones” spinoff “House of the Dragon.” 

The post-apocalyptic story at the center of it all focused on Joel, a hardened smuggler who has seemingly lost everything, and a young girl named Ellie, who is immune to the deadly infection that effectively ended the world, as they travel across the country together…

In the latest episode of Rewind of the Living Dead, we’re going to tell some punny jokes and hope there’s not a fungus among us as we review the first season of “The Last of Us”…

Music courtesy of Andrew Scott Bell

Music courtesy of Andrew Scott Bell and Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

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