![]() When The Last of Us and Station Eleven come up in tandem, it’s usually to comment on the mild absurdity of such similar projects emerging from the same source and so close together. ![]() Discovery they are technically distinct, despite the inevitable confusion.) (Both platforms are owned by Warner Bros. Station Eleven premiered in late 2021 on the streaming service HBO Max just over a year later, the pilot of The Last of Us premiered on HBO and Max simultaneously. And both share a parent company as well as a general premise. Each show pairs an older man with a tweenage girl who isn’t his daughter, but he protects and cares for her like she is. Both Station Eleven and The Last of Us begin with the world’s end, then fast-forward 20 years to its aftermath. There are any number of access points for a comparison of these two shows. There’s a lot of TV out there. We want to help: Every week, we’ll tell you the best and most urgent shows to stream so you can stay on top of the ever-expanding heap of Peak TV. To endure and survive is simply a starting point. The quote is a counterpoint, and not just to other excerpts from its source. The other, “Survival is insufficient,” suggests the importance of preserving certain ideals and traditions. One, “There is no before,” leads its adherent to renounce all traces of the past-especially the part that precedes the flu that eliminated over 90 percent of the planet’s population. Station Eleven has only two readers, each of whom latches on to a very different excerpt. The eponymous Station Eleven is its author’s unpublished life’s work, a graphic novel about a lonely astronaut stranded in space. In the first and only season of Station Eleven, two adults clash over a comic book they first encountered as children. ![]() The exchange is a rare, brief opportunity for the kids to be kids at a time when play is a privilege. Before the devastating climax of the episode that bears the comic’s motto as its name, Ellie (Bella Ramsey) and Sam (Keivonn Woodard) page through their respective issues and share notes. Savage Starlight may predate the fungal infection that devastated human society, but its slogan, “endure and survive,” nonetheless rings true in the Hobbesian world The Last of Us depicts. In the first season of The Last of Us, two children bond over a comic book.
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