You haven't seen the world.

The Last Of Us, S1 – 3.5/5

I think the show is largely okay. Serious People in Serious Times. But the last episode makes it worthwhile, and makes it worth revisiting each of the other episodes through a new lens – what love does to each of us, end-times or no. This is the show that makes me realize that the world's worst isn't just ruled by fear or greed or prejudice, but just as equally love. Love makes us do strange fucking shit. It does all of those good things, it creates life, it creates community, it pulls you out of yourself, but it also makes us vengeful, it makes us traitors, it isolates us, it makes us value one life over the whole. Love is just as dangerous a word as hate. It's a nuclear bomb, and in the wrong hands...