Throughout its inaugural season, The Last of Us has been steadily faithful to its multi-award-winning source material. Sticking to the source hasn’t just meant keeping chronological events in canonical order or dressing-up live-action characters exactly as they appear in the pixelated post-apocalyptic action-adventure. Sometimes the HBO show has gone so far in its uncanniness as to include near-exact horror sequences from the video game, as well as near-exact lines from its script.
