If you've experienced the compelling, if also stress-inducing 2013 video game "The Last of Us," you'll be ready for what comes in the excellent new television adaptation debuting this weekend on HBO and HBO Max.
Or as ready as you can be.
The story told in the award-winning Sony PlayStation game — and continued in its emotionally devastating 2020 sequel, "The Last of Us Part II" — takes place 20 years after a fungal mutation quickly turned much of the human population into zombies.
