I will probably watch again.Genres/Tags: Action, Shooter, Stealth, Third-person, 3D, HorrorĬompanies: Naughty Dog, Sony Interactive Entertainment It isn't an action-packed zombie flick (althought there are some good action scenes here and there), but more like a road movie. Remove these flashback episodes, plus the pilot which sets the terrain, and that's what, 6 episodes, all of them under an hour? That's not much but it is enjoyable, for the good dialogues, excellent cinematography and great acting. The tone is personal as the two main characters slowly unveil themselves to the other, but there are a couple of episodes where they focus elsewhere, both of them with homosexual overtones (which by now are mandatory I suppose). After that, it becomes more episodic, and deals much more with the various bands of survivors encountered on the journey than the infected themselves, some of which were typical video games contraptions.

The first 2 episodes were IMO the best: The pilot in particular, was rich, fast and multilayered in terms of emotions. Which makes me a true neutral viewer here, and yet the immersion was fast. Not too crazy on zombie stuff, and I never played the titular game. Lastly, while insects do gain some level of aggression when infected, they normally do not attack other insects. All 600 species of Cordyceps which seize control of insect bodies do so to force the host into a humid place where the fungus can feed on the body and spread its spores, so if an evolved cordyceps infected a human and over the course of many days transformed the body into a shambling host, the fungus' end goal would be much the same. Even if it did, fungal infections are slow, taking a matter of weeks, and nothing like the near-instant transformation depicted new filaments take some time and energy to produce. Human brains contain hundreds of thousands of times more neurons compared to an ant brain, and it would be an extraordinarily rapid evolution for cordyceps to gain the ability to infect and take over one. Overall, the probability of a fungus of this type evolving the need and capability to infect humans is astronomically small.

As with the game, the series' depiction of the cordyceps fungus has some inaccuracies.

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