Marlene

After a mishap involving her office’s slick new printer, aging pencil-pusher Marlène gets called out by her smarmy young boss. Perhaps, he suggests, if she can’t evolve with the technology, she should take herself out of the workforce entirely. As sci-fi short Seniors 3000 reveals, there is another, far wilderway!Shared by Short of the Week, this 16-minute charmer from Julien David uses both 2D and 3D animation to weave a fantastical tale that explores some real-world themes, including ageism, the generation gap,…

Image: HBOAfter two months of recaps and video reviews, I can’t believe HBO’s The Last of Us is over. For now, of course. Season two (and probably three) is on the way, but for now, fans are left to wallow in the horrific actions of Joel (Pedro Pascal) and their impact on Ellie (Bella Ramsey).Along the way you may have noticed, but maybe not, that most of the images io9 used to illustrate articles on The Last of Us didn’t reveal much. That’s because HBO would release only a handful of photos—all carefully chosen to avoid…

Intensity was the name of the game in the Last of Us finale.Image: HBOThe shocking ending of The Last of Us season one is certain to have everyone talking for a long, long time. Luckily, io9 was among a group of journalists who got to talk to the people you’d want to talk to about it with most: showrunners Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann.In an extended press event, Mazin and Druckmann touched upon their personal feelings about the finalebut also got into some other big moments and reveals now that the season is over. For…

Episode 7 of The Last of Us is called “Left Behind,” named after the game’s DLC. Image: HBOOne of the most exciting propositions about this first season of HBO’s The Last of Us was that, at some point, it was going to incorporate a second piece of Last of Us lore: the 2014 add-on to the game called The Last of Us: Left Behind. Released a year after the original game, the downloadable content clued players into more of Ellie’s past and sexuality, and revealed exactly how she got the bite that changed everything. Well, with…

Time to learn more about Ellie, and the virus. Image: HBOThe second episode of The Last of Us was all about beginnings: the beginning of the viral outbreak that would basically end the world, and the beginning of Joel and Ellie’s story as the pair, along with Tess, set out into the open world of Boston. Helmed by Last of Us game director and series co-showrunner Neil Druckmann, it was a subtly video game-influenced episode that also added to the franchise’s mythology in some scary, fascinating ways.Before we could pick up…

Image: HBOI love The Last of Us franchise. I’ve played all three games (which includes the DLC), been wholly engrossed by them, and that’s why I’m here to begin io9's recaps of the new HBO show. However, with a few exceptions, these recaps are going to be more focused on the show itself—a series of thoughts and observations based on how showrunners Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann chose to adapt that story for TV. Because let’s face it, the story has to work and be engaging for someone who doesn’t know anything about the…

Screenshot: HBOFinally, a better look at Pedro Pascal as Joel in HBO’s The Last of Us series. The Mandalorian star shows his face as an apocalypse survivor out for redemption in a world riddled with “clickers,” humans who have mutated into zombies thanks to the worldwide Cordyceps Brain Infection outbreak. Here Pascal plays the lead of the successful PlayStation video game franchise, and (once again) is tasked with a mission to get a kid through a very wild frontier. In an HBO reunion, Game of Thrones standout Bella…

Image: HBOHBO and Sony are doing a great job of letting us see as little of their live-action adaptation of The Last of Us as possible. The first official picture from the adaptation of Naughty Dog’s critically acclaimed zombie game series was bright, but also just of the backs of its two lead stars. This second look, is... well, the direct opposite.Just revealed at the ongoing Summer Games Fest gaming live show, this new still from the HBO series actually lets us see Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey as Joel and Ellie,…