I gave Season 1 of HBO’s The Last of Us a grade of A-minus, hailing it for breathing new life into the zombie genre — but I never actually finished watching the first season. When I went back to finish it recently to prepare for Season 2, I remembered why I stopped: This show is just brutal to watch.
Sure, no zombie show is exactly a walk in the park, but watching The Last of Us is an especially draining experience, pairing abrupt graphic violence with a suffocatingly bleak worldview. (I said in my original review I don’t recommend binge-watching more…
