JohnAKeith
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I didn't see any posts about 'The Last of Us' show on HBO Max. I am finding the series to be worth watching. I haven't played the video game that it's based on.
The plot of the show (based on the video game) is that a fungal infection causes everyone to turn into zombies (I had a fungal infection like that in college). A lucky few survive. The US government tries to save people by setting up FEMA zones (I forget the name) in major cities, after the zombies have taken over and after the government bombs much of the country in order to contain them and to save the survivors (although, spoiler alert: they also kill a bunch of uninfected people because there's nowhere to put them). The government ends up being the bad guy as much as the zombies, which I guess is a bit more pronounced in the show than in the series (spoiler alert: the government starts hanging "traitors" when they misbehave).
So the first couple of episodes take place in post-apocalyptic Boston where the main character guy meets up with a 14-year old girl (spoiler alert: oh, never mind). I think they did a good job of recreating Boston (the show was filmed in Calgary, Alberta, I guess). Lots of the stuff is just CGI (what we used to call mattes).
Anyway, here are some screengrabs. (Explanations before the images, not after.)
The "old" State House (by which they mean, the one that used to be used BZ - before zombies, not the "Old" State House that was the original) where they go to find other anti-govs is a real building presumably up in Canada but I didn't look up where. Close up it doesn't match quite at all.
This is their approximation of the State House on the side where the Hooker Entrance is located.
Gold dome in the distance. Spoiler alert: everyone's dead when they get there.
This is my favorite shot. That's the Sheraton (sic) building to the left, Custom House Tower in the middle and .. incredibly, 75 State Street to the right.
They visit the "Bostonian Museum" to get a look at the city. Rumor is they used to sell a talking Mayor White doll here saying, "Welcome to the Shitty of Bawston."
Nothing can kill it. The old New Boston City Hall outlasted the zombies and the bombings. However, it also spared Quincy Market and Faneuil (sic) Hall.
The plot of the show (based on the video game) is that a fungal infection causes everyone to turn into zombies (I had a fungal infection like that in college). A lucky few survive. The US government tries to save people by setting up FEMA zones (I forget the name) in major cities, after the zombies have taken over and after the government bombs much of the country in order to contain them and to save the survivors (although, spoiler alert: they also kill a bunch of uninfected people because there's nowhere to put them). The government ends up being the bad guy as much as the zombies, which I guess is a bit more pronounced in the show than in the series (spoiler alert: the government starts hanging "traitors" when they misbehave).
So the first couple of episodes take place in post-apocalyptic Boston where the main character guy meets up with a 14-year old girl (spoiler alert: oh, never mind). I think they did a good job of recreating Boston (the show was filmed in Calgary, Alberta, I guess). Lots of the stuff is just CGI (what we used to call mattes).
Anyway, here are some screengrabs. (Explanations before the images, not after.)
The "old" State House (by which they mean, the one that used to be used BZ - before zombies, not the "Old" State House that was the original) where they go to find other anti-govs is a real building presumably up in Canada but I didn't look up where. Close up it doesn't match quite at all.
This is their approximation of the State House on the side where the Hooker Entrance is located.
Gold dome in the distance. Spoiler alert: everyone's dead when they get there.
This is my favorite shot. That's the Sheraton (sic) building to the left, Custom House Tower in the middle and .. incredibly, 75 State Street to the right.
They visit the "Bostonian Museum" to get a look at the city. Rumor is they used to sell a talking Mayor White doll here saying, "Welcome to the Shitty of Bawston."
Nothing can kill it. The old New Boston City Hall outlasted the zombies and the bombings. However, it also spared Quincy Market and Faneuil (sic) Hall.
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