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The Last of Us season 2 trailer dropped on March 8, and teased just as many heart-pounding action sequences and heart-wrenching emotional fall-outs amidst the dystopian zombie landscape as the first.
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Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 25 Mar. 2025
In a dystopian future where Manhattan has been transformed into a maximum-security prison, the United States government faces a crisis when Air Force One crashes inside the city’s lawless ruins, leaving the President (Donald Pleasence) stranded.
—Travis Bean, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
Al Capone in Boardwalk Empire, an underground crime lord and boxer in A Thousand Blows, a neo-Nazi play-acting at being a father in This Is England, a coolly unemotional dystopian leader in Bodies.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 22 Mar. 2025
With just a few notes, Hans Zimmer can transport you back to your childhood (Pirates of the Caribbean,The Lion King) or forward to a dystopian future (Dune, The Dark Knight).
—Air Mail, 22 Mar. 2025
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Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 25 Mar. 2025
In a dystopian future where Manhattan has been transformed into a maximum-security prison, the United States government faces a crisis when Air Force One crashes inside the city’s lawless ruins, leaving the President (Donald Pleasence) stranded.
—Travis Bean, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
Al Capone in Boardwalk Empire, an underground crime lord and boxer in A Thousand Blows, a neo-Nazi play-acting at being a father in This Is England, a coolly unemotional dystopian leader in Bodies.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 22 Mar. 2025
With just a few notes, Hans Zimmer can transport you back to your childhood (Pirates of the Caribbean,The Lion King) or forward to a dystopian future (Dune, The Dark Knight).
—Air Mail, 22 Mar. 2025
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“Dystopian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dystopian. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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