The Last of Us: Why We Like Series About the End of the World

  Stories about apocalyptic scenarios have always haunted our psychological imaginations. They attract us because they place us in probable but inhospitable territories that are somehow feasible. One example of this was the well-known novel by Cormac McCarthy, The Road (2006). This book won the Pulitzer Prize and became a huge bestseller. This story of the efforts of a father and son to survive in a charred North America after a nuclear holocaust became a disturbing metaphor for the possible future of the human being. Beyond the literary world, these themes are also extremely popular in the world of video…