At one point in the story, during the continual flight from flesh-eating zombies, a father and his 10 year old son have a close encounter with a deer in the woods. The deer stares at the boy, and the boy stares at the deer. Within the horror of their lives, the beauty is magical. The boy smiles at his father at wonder and joy...until the boy is shot. A nearby hunter shot the deer and the bullet passed through the animal and hit the boy in the chest. The magic is over and a new chapter of horror begins.
After going through great lengths to get help for their son, his mother wonders if it's worth the effort to keep the little guy alive in such a horrible world, knowing that he will probably spend his life in continual stress and flight. She asks her husband for a reason to put the boy through the pain of surgery and recovery in order to keep him alive? The boy's father can't find an answer.
Eventually, after nearly dying, the little guy wakes up and sees his mother for the first time since this accident, and he's anxious to tell his Mom something. With a groggy smile, he tells her about the deer, how close he was to it, and how beautiful it was. And then he has a siezure and the horror continues.
Now the father has found the answer that he didn't have before. "Our son remembered the deer, the beauty", he tells his wife, "he didn't talk about the shooting or the pain or the fear. He talked about the deer." The brief thrill of beholding beauty trumped all the horror that the boy had previously experienced.
I think the people who wrote this show are on to something. Without knowing it, they have stumbled upon an aspect of humanity that reveals the divine image in us. We were made to behold beauty, glory. We are hungry for it, starved for it, driven to find it. When we see it, however dimly or briefly, it can spur us on to look for more.The Bible tells us that regenerated sons and daughters of God can, with the scriptures and the Holy Spirit, pursue this glory and beauty by knowing God better, especially in the "face" of Jesus the Christ.
Also, some day we will finish wandering through this wilderness. We will no longer be pursued by the faith-eating zombies of the world, the flesh, and devil. We will enter the promised land of eternal beauty!
