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    How <em>The Last of Us</em> Cherishes a Bygone World

    Even as the show moves through a new postapocalyptic reality, it keeps a close eye on what’s been lost.
    by Shirley Li Feb 26, 2023 3 minutes
    Source: Liane Hentscher / HBO

    This story contains spoilers for The Last of Us Season 1, Episode 7.

    An abandoned mall at the end of the world is not a pretty sight. Stores, looted and left in disarray, offer only broken mannequins and empty shelves. Glass shards blanket the floors. Fluorescent bulbs flicker. A place once known as a center of commerce has become a dirt-strewn husk of its former self.

    Yet when ’s teenage heroine, Ellie (played by Bella Ramsey), gazes upon one such building in the latest episode, she’s entranced. Her face, bruised from a recent fistfight, lights

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