On Sunday, HBO Max’s post-apocalyptic zombie present The Final of Us provided some stunning ideas on communism.

The primary half of Sunday’s episode, “Kin,” regarded as if it will do the same old left-wing Hollywood dance and endorse delusional communist “utopian” concepts. The second half of the present, nevertheless, made clear that communism might by no means work for a nation of any vital measurement.

The sequence, primarily based on a success online game, is a couple of powerful and resourceful survivor of a fungal virus epidemic named Joel (Pedro Pascal) who should escort a teenaged woman, Ellie (Bella Ramsey), throughout a post-apocalyptic United States.

In “Kin,” Joel and Ellie make it to Jackson, Wyoming. They discover Joel’s brother, Tommy (Gabriel Luna), residing safely on a commune within the wilderness:

Ellie: So are you, like, in cost? 

Maria: Nobody particular person’s in cost. I am on the council. Democratically elected, serving 300 folks, together with youngsters. Everybody pitches in. We rotate patrols, meals prep, repairs, searching, harvesting. Every thing you see in our city…greenhouses, livestock, all shared. 

Tommy: Collective possession. 

Joel: So, uh, communism. 

Tommy: (Scoffs) Nah. Nah, it ain’t like that. 

Maria: It’s that. Actually. This can be a commune. We’re communists.

After an outline like that, one may presume the present would go on to endorse a damaging financial and societal philosophy that has ruined international locations throughout the globe. Surprisingly, that is not what occurs.

Ellie, who solely is aware of of life after the apocalypse, asks Joel if your complete nation was run just like the commune. Joel provides a sane and sensible reply:

Ellie: So the best way they ran stuff in Jackson, was how issues was? 

Joel: No, the nation was too massive for that. Again then, there have been principally two fundamental methods of lookin’ at issues. Some folks needed to personal all the things. 

Ellie: Mm-hmm. 

Joel: And a few folks did not need anybody to personal something in any respect. 

Ellie: Which one have been you? 

Joel: Neither. I simply did my job.

Ellie: Which was…constructing? 

Joel: That is proper. Homes, shops, that kinda factor. We have been known as “Contractors.” 

In different phrases, a rustic will not be a kibbutz. Collective possession by the state doesn’t work and has by no means labored. Joel is a person who constructed issues. He understands that. 

His remark about how “some folks did not need anybody to personal something in any respect” might simply be utilized to creepy World Financial Discussion board (WEF) ads bragging that “you may personal nothing and you will be pleased.” 

Joel is a powerful and succesful presence within the present. He’s far too sensible to waste time with silly concepts.

This doesn’t imply that The Final of Us is destined to woo a conservative viewers in the long term. Its director already admitted that he intentionally “tricked” audiences into watching homosexual sexuality within the present’s third episode, an episode that altered the storyline from the sport.

Bella Ramsey, who performs Ellie, calls herself “non-binary” and has bragged about carrying a chest binder on set. In an interview with GQ, she instructed viewers to “get used to” an LGBT agenda within the sequence. Within the unique recreation, Ellie turns into a lesbian.  

In different phrases, the present will not be keen on selling a communist state, however it’s keen on selling left-wing sexual obsessions.

The Final of Us‘s writing could also be higher than plenty of present dramas, however audiences will not escape an ideological agenda in the long run.