If the underlying theme of these stories - including the ones being told in prior weeks - is about how the overwhelming fear and paranoia of post-apocalyptic life can make monsters out of any of us, then “Look for the Light” chooses to focus on a different emotion: love. Or, in the case of the climax of Season One, they’ve made them into people whose actions can utterly break our hearts. Craig Mazin, Neil Druckmann, and everyone else involved have put in the work to make this a show about people, and Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey have made them into people whom viewers can give their whole hearts.
The infected are dangerous obstacles, but they are in no way what The Last of Usis about. For all that the creators of zombie shows and movies talk the “We’re trying to show that human beings are the true monsters” talk, very few of them have walked the walk like this zombie-adjacent series.
THIS POST CONTAINS spoilers for this week’s episode of The Last of Us, “Look for the Light.”Īs we come to the end of an utterly fantastic debut season of television, it’s worth looking back to note that of these nine episodes, only three of them ( the premiere, “Infected,” and “Endure and Survive”) featured lots of infected, several others didn’t include them at all, while the rest only had one or two of the creatures, and usually briefly, at that.
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