The ending that launched a thousand moral philosophy essays.
Naughty Dog's 2013 masterpiece didn't just tell a zombie story — it told a father-daughter story that happens to have zombies. Joel's final decision remains one of the most morally complex endings in any narrative medium, and the fact that HBO's adaptation basically just filmed the cutscenes proves the writing was already cinematic. Craig Mazin didn't improve the story; he just proved it didn't need improving.

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