The cinematography and special effects are top-notch, immersing the audience in the world of the show. Visually, the series is stunning, with a post-apocalyptic world that is both bleak and beautiful. The chemistry between the two leads is palpable and their relationship is at the heart of the show. The acting in the series is superb, with Pedro Pascal giving a standout performance as Joel and newcomer Bella Ramsey delivering a captivating portrayal of Ellie.

The series follows the story of Joel, a grizzled survivor of a zombie apocalypse, and Ellie, a young girl who may hold the key to humanity's survival. The Last of Us, the highly anticipated television adaptation of the beloved video game, is a tense and emotional journey that successfully captures the essence of the original story. Lastly, while insects do gain some level of aggression when infected, they normally do not attack other insects.

All 600 species of Cordyceps which seize control of insect bodies do so to force the host into a humid place where the fungus can feed on the body and spread its spores, so if an evolved cordyceps infected a human and over the course of many days transformed the body into a shambling host, the fungus' end goal would be much the same.

Even if it did, fungal infections are slow, taking a matter of weeks, and nothing like the near-instant transformation depicted new filaments take some time and energy to produce. Human brains contain hundreds of thousands of times more neurons compared to an ant brain, and it would be an extraordinarily rapid evolution for cordyceps to gain the ability to infect and take over one.

Overall, the probability of a fungus of this type evolving the need and capability to infect humans is astronomically small. As with the game, the series' depiction of the cordyceps fungus has some inaccuracies.

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