[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “The Last of Us” Season 2, Episode 2, “Through the Valley.”]
In movies and TV, zombies are scary due to their numbers. It doesn’t matter how fast you run, it doesn’t matter where you go, they’ll find you. They exist on such a massive scale that they become inevitable.
In archetypical zombie movies like George A. Romero’s “Dawn of the Dead,” the protagonists are trapped in an enclosed location surrounded by hordes of zombies whose only goal is to maul them to death. Yet those zombie hordes are just waiting outside. At most, they run like a mindless herd once they find a way in. These undead don’t plan, don’t strategize, and don’t even think. “The Last of Us” season two does something different in its second episode, and the result is a very different take on the walking dead than what we’ve seen…
