In the wake of the apocalypse, it would make sense that people look for meaning, and that often means finding religion. It happened in The Leftovers with the Guilty Remnant, in Mad Max with the Cult of the V8, and in Yellowjackets with the Wilderness. The Fallout series was almost entirely about cults, from the Brotherhood of Steel to the Vault Dwellers to that strange ritual moment in Vault 4.
The Last of Us touched on the pervasiveness of cults in times of crisis in Season 1, when Ellie and Joel encountered David, the leader of a fanatically religious group of survivors who have resorted to cannibalism to stay alive. Now, in Season 2, the series is touching on one of the game’s biggest cults, way before the game ever mentioned them.
