The Final of Us Will Present Torture Onscreen—However Not a Girl With Dangerous Hair

There have been many occasions after I’ve sat down to observe a Sunday evening HBO lineup and thought “Rattling, I would like that character’s hair.” I’ve screenshotted Carrie Bradshaw’s highlights in And Simply Like That… and introduced them to my stylist. I concern and respect Kate’s potential to serve bob on The White Lotus. However I by no means anticipated to covet the curtain bangs and artfully positioned waves on Dina, Isabela Merced’s character within the post-apocalyptic collection The Final of Us.

The present, based mostly on the online game franchise of the identical identify, is nearing the top of its second season, which takes place 5 years after the occasions of its first, a long time after a viral fungus turned a lot of humanity into deformed, zombie-like creatures. Although the present’s important characters have joined a peaceable, secured settlement in Jackson, Wyoming, the Contaminated, as they’re identified, nonetheless pose an enormous menace to the city and its folks, together with protagonist Ellie and love curiosity Dina, who depart this civilization for a cross-country journey (I received’t spoil why for many who one way or the other nonetheless don’t know), sharing a single horse and an entire lot of beef jerky.

Roaming just about in all places that’s not Jackson, the Contaminated are starved for human flesh, and most of them are very quick. And if so-called “Runners” or “Clickers” don’t rip you limb from limb or flip you right into a zombie your self, a closely armed impartial militia might shoot you on sight, otherwise you may end up kidnapped by a cannibalistic cult. Characters face numerous obstacles within the endlessly harmful and hopeless panorama of The Final of Us—however imperfect hair, weirdly, shouldn’t be considered one of them. Amid this hellscape, Dina appears to have one way or the other discovered a Dyson Airwrap and a miraculously functioning electrical socket as a result of her hair is good at nearly each second.