Zombie bugs: The parasites that hijack insect minds
Parasitic species of fungi, worms, and wasps have the ability to manipulate their hosts, turning them into the living dead. Science still doesn’t know how they do it
From Ellie in ‘The Last of Us’ to Ross in ‘Friends’: What did these nine characters do to become so unpopular?
On paper, they were the heroes audiences were supposed to love, the ones driving the story forward. Yet somewhere along the way, they fell out of favor
‘The Last of Us’: The last shall be first
Craig Mazin’s series, faithful to the video game, builds around a clear thesis: revenge leads only to an endless spiral of hatred
Neil Druckmann, creator of ‘The Last of Us’: ‘Boredom is our biggest enemy; if the show feels boring, then we’re doing something wrong’
The mind behind the video game and the television adaptation, which is premiering its second season, talks about his experiences in both formats and the challenges of maintaining the show’s huge success
A day on the set of ‘The Last of Us’: Silicone, blood, and secrecy in a Vancouver industrial warehouse
The series, starring Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey and based on one of the most celebrated video games in history, returns for its highly anticipated second season, two years after the release of its first installment
Isabela Merced cements her career in Hollywood: ‘Alien’, ‘Superman’ and ‘The Last of Us’
The 23-year-old actress stars in ‘Romulus’, the latest movie in the popular sci-fi horror saga, as she continues to forge her way in cinema, starring in films alongside the likes of Benicio del Toro and Mark Wahlberg
‘Fallout’: A radioactive blast to the TV wasteland
The Amazon Prime Video series demonstrates, much like ‘The Last of Us’ did, the potential of video game adaptations
The greatest video games repeat themselves
The rise of the remastering of master productions like ‘Resident Evil,’ ‘The Last of Us’ and ‘Final Fantasy’ stirs debate about creativity, artistic risks and economic power within the industry
The sexist hate campaign against the new season of ‘True Detective’: ‘There are too many women with power’
Disgruntled reviewers have set out to destroy Issa López’s latest version of the series on review-aggregation websites. They have already made victims of ‘The Little Mermaid’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ and are now targeting the Jodie Foster series in which, according to some, there are too few men
Why actors and filmmakers are turning their backs on sex scenes
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Productions featuring erotic scenes are fewer and further between, and even Quentin Tarantino considers them superfluous. A mere stylistic change or a full cultural shift?
‘The Last of Us:’ Why Linda Ronstadt won’t get a cent for her music being used in HBO’s hit show
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Although the retired singer will not make any profit from the use of her song ‘Long, Long Time,’ she is taking advantage of the buzz it is generating to promote new projects
The dilemma with ‘daddy’: The erotic myth of the interesting, mature man that stuns Pedro Pascal, David Harbor and Idris Elba
They’re around 50-years-old, they have gray hair, their bodies aren’t sculpted and their attractiveness is as physical as it is emotional and intellectual. The erotic myth of the fascinating older man has been reborn on TikTok
Homosexuality, communism, and a menstrual cup: Why ‘The Last of Us’ is so triggering to conservatives
Every week, the popular HBO series prompts hateful complaints from reactionary, misogynistic, and homophobic viewers that ‘the woke agenda’ is ruining a series inspired by their favorite video game