In April, HBO will premiere the second season of The Last of Us, based on Naughty Dog's video game series. We'll catch up with characters like Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey), last seen settling in the peaceful enclave of Jackson, Wyoming following a cross-country trek across a zombie-infested United States.

We'll also meet a bunch of new characters introduced in The Last of Us Part II. The most important of these is Abby, to be played by Kaitlyn Dever. We won't spoil the plot, but Abby does something so shocking and upsetting that it led to a huge backlash when the game came out in 2020. It got proper ugly, to the point where gamers were sending death threats not only to actress Laura Baily, who voiced Abby in the games, but to Baily's infant son, so clueless were they about the distinction between actor and characters, or...