Perspective: “It should have come as no surprise that a TV show about infected fungal zombies would at some point indulge in body horror. I was still taken aback when it happened.”
“So I would ask Neil [Druckmann, co-creator of “The Last of Us”] a thousand annoying questions, especially early on,” Mazin said. “And I remember one of the annoying questions I asked was, why are FEDRA soldiers all the way out here? If the open city is really, really dangerous, it seems like they’re really going way,out of their way to find Tess and Joel. They might say, ‘Hey, they did a terrible thing, but they’re just gonna get killed out there.
Kisses can be tender, wet, bad, sloppy, bored. There are bisous, a playful French greeting that involves light kisses on the cheeks. Throughout history, kisses have meant a lot of things. So what does the zombie kiss mean here?There are a few interpretations that I think a person can arrive at in reasonably good faith. It’s possible the showrunners of this horror drama TV show just wanted a dramatic and horrifying body horror gross-out scene.
There’s a last interpretation, one that’s less charitable. The kiss is clearly nonconsensual, a grim fictionalization of rape culture and the kind of brutish behavior so many people suffer even in our current non-apocalypse. And perhaps the showrunners, who are men, did not think about whether it might be cruel or send a weird message to subject one of the show’s most prominent female characters to an even worse fate than she suffered in the game, and in a more lurid way at that.
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