The Last of Us and the Value of “Realness”

How HBO’s The Last Of Us transformed Alberta into a zombie wasteland

https://www.macleans.ca/culture/television/the-last-of-us-location-manager-on-how-hbo-transformed-alberta-into-a-zombie-wasteland/

Here’s a fun article about The Last of Us by HBO, which is referred to in the article as the “biggest production in Canadian history”.
There is a lot of money spent on making things “real” instead of relying on CGI, which I thought was an interesting reflection of how we are beginning to value realness in an era where it is becoming harder to distinguish real from fake.

*includes spoilers!

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