![]() ![]() Mendez keeps the exposition he has to deliver engaging through the eccentric way he declares it and how he squirrels about. Mendez ( Hrant Alianak) breaks into the station, he provides welcomed levity, plus an attempt at answers to the central outbreak. This is done to the amusement of “technical cowgirl” Laurel-Ann ( Georgina Reilly) and to the agitation of producer Sydney ( Lisa Houle). The cowboy-hat-wearing DJ adds liquor to his coffee to begin the morning off right, doing little to fight the urge in reverting to the provocateur that got himself in trouble in the first place. Mazzy has been fired from the city and exiled to freeze his ass off in Pontypool, a small Ontario town. There is no cute, celebratory Christmas lighting display hanging overhead, it’s Valentine’s Day, a drab, loveless one at that, and it will be a memorable holiday for all the wrong reasons. A harsher, bleaker winter is going to slam the characters in Pontypool, an approaching storm blowing in snow and seclusion. Quite honestly, the village appears to come out of a Hallmark movie than a post-apocalyptic show. They are introduced to the Jackson community, a commune that is beginning to celebrate the Christmas season in a picturesque environment with gargantuan mountains standing in the distance. In Episode 6 of The Last of Us, the series visits the cold, snowy High Plains landscape of Wyoming, a nice change of pace from the previous urban-based adventures of Joel and Ellie ( Bella Ramsey). ‘The Last of Us’ And ‘Pontypool’ Depict Two Different Versions of Winter It helps that the weather is already keeping everyone indoors ahead of any zombie madness. ![]() Directed by Bruce McDonald, Pontypool’s slim cast is as much in the dark as the movie’s audience, adding to an atmosphere of uncertainty as the information arrives for the characters in real time - you know as much as they do. It’s as if you are watching Orson Welles’ infamous The War of the Worlds broadcast, except it is very real, you’re stuck in the radio station with the announcers, and the alien invasion gets swapped out for another kind of threat. Tony Burgess adapted his novel, Pontypool Changes Everything, into a radio program, then into this feature screenplay. Stuck inside with his team, Grant finally has the headline-grabbing, big-time story he’s been hungry for, he just has to stay alive to keep reporting on it. The story is unconfirmed by official sources, also unconfirmed is the mention of the rioters acting like cannibals. From an incoming, breaking news story, Mazzy learns about a local riot turning into a high-casualty, mass-hysteria event. ‘Pontypool’ Places the Audience Within the ChaosĪt the Beacon station, shock jock Grant Mazzy ( Stephen McHattie) realizes the day won’t be like any other. ![]()
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