They tried in the television show, sort of. At the end of Season 1, doctors and nurses want to cut into the brain of the ...

The Last of Us‘ video game fans were expecting to see the Cordyceps fungus spread through spores in the air when season on of the TV series hit our screens. After all, that’s how the virus ...

The Last of Us is back on April 13 and this season is more realistic than ever. The trailer for the hit HBO series appears to ...

In "The Last of Us," cordyceps — a real fungus that infects insects — evolves into a harmful pathogen for humans due to a ...

HBO’s The Last Of Us followed the original game pretty closely ... But on the whole it made plenty of changes, like the removal of spores from this version of the world, replaced instead ...

and for The Last of Us to go in a completely different direction with the way it introduces spores into Season 2. But that would require going in a different direction with Ellie's reveal to Dina ...

Image credit: HBO And, it is not just Stalkers that will bring a change when the second season of The Last of Us airs next month. The showrunners have confirmed spores are also making a return.

there are several important scenes in The Last of Us Part II game that hinge on the spores, and perhaps the writing team didn’t anticipate how much they’d need that story element eventually ...

are spread by inhaling spores. It's not the only thing the show gets right. In The Last of Us, cordyceps -- which is harmless, even edible, in real life -- evolved into a harmful fungus thanks to ...

In season two of The Last of Us, we’ll see Cordyceps spores come into play, offering a deadly new way for the infection to ensnare our favorite characters. At SXSW, showrunners Neil Druckmann ...