The End We Start From

Baby Zeb with his mother, Woman

It was The End We Start From‘s misfortune to come out not long after The Last of Us, the TV show starring Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal. Mahalia Bello’s film arrived a few months after The Last of Us had finished and covers much of the same ground, though here the focus is really on just one person, Jodie Comer’s Woman (as she’s billed). It’s pretty familiar stuff if you’ve seen The Last of Us, which most of us have. So you know it’s the post-apocalypse, the action kicking off with a woman, or Woman, going into labour. As her waters are breaking torrential rain is pouring out of the sky, and it … Read more