Is the fungal science in The Last of Us going off the rails?
“Have you ever seen a fungus move in real life?” Episode 2 of the new season of The Last of Us
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There was something I loved and something I hated in the first season of The Last of Us, the post-apocalyptic TV show based on the hit video game of the same name, in which humanity fights against fungus-infected monsters. On the pro side, the scenography is incredible: from creatures infected with a mutated Cordyceps (the “zombie-ant fungus” now turning humans into ravaging cannibals) to the eerie overgrowth dominating everything, the imagery presents a hostile world cunningly reclaimed…
