The characters in Craig Mazin’s hit series, The Last of Us, are just like the rest of us – violent, tyrannical, and on the verge of being irredeemable. Yet we hope for them, still.
E-mails are non-living beings that consume the time and attention of the living. Like the zombies in The Walking Dead, hoards of emails devour us.
The continued appeal of post-apocalyptic entertainment reflects our culture’s exhaustion with the genre’s historically prophetic (and moralistic) warnings about exploitation, materialism, and consumerism.
The Walking Dead prequel Fear the Walking Dead uses dramatic irony to twist viewers’ hopes that the story won’t end how they know it will end.
