A kiss at the end of the world

Why does the apocalypse always seem so joyless?

Photo by Pavel Danilyuk

My guy and I were watching the first episode of “The Last of Us” yesterday and we noticed that all the apocalypse shows we’ve ever seen are kind of the same. The tone is so hard to sit through: impending dread and awful things right around the corner in every scene. It honestly hits a little too close to home these days. I don’t remember feeling that so much when…