The untold story of how Cousineau went from dapper and put together to a sweaty pot-bellied mess in the course of his stage performance is the subtle hero of the premiere

That scene was amazing. I had the stupidest grin on my face the entire time.

That walking in circles was great. Loved when NoHo had to run back to get into position. Who was NoHo texting? Fuches?

There’s also a second episode!

One underdiscussed reason for Joel saving Ellie by killing a bunch of people is that she did save his life, even after he told her to leave him. So setting aside that he loves her like a daughter, he would save her anyway as a debt of obligation.

So the Fireflies are expecting a teenage girl, who may hold the key to a cure, escorted by a middle aged man. Is this in dispute?

Dang, I had 10 years to think of it and I never did! Take your star!

One of the nurses in surgery was played by Laura Bailey, who was Abbi in TLoU part II.

People are always trying to justify whether Joel did the right thing or not acting like Joel is even thinking about cures. If Joel had to kill 4 other kids to save Ellie he would have. If the only way to save Ellie was sacrificing another girl to find the cure he would have. The point was that there’s nothing he…

Its very funny to see so many people referring to Joel’s “choice” and references to the trolley problem when both the game and the show make it 100% clear there is NO choice for Joel whatsoever. He’d never allow Ellie to be killed, not in a trillion universes. The last episode isn’t a moral dilemma it’s about the…

As someone who played the game through once shortly after it came out, I have been half remembering some things, forgetting others, and misremembering a lot. That being said, the scene early on where Joel gives Ellie a boost so she can send a ladder down hit straight through to when I played it. There is a ton of that…

Perfect finale. Really loved it. They nailed all the beats.

Come on, Firefly guy who Marlene tells to cover the baby’s ears. You had one job. One job.

I know she was in the game but Ashley Johnson would have been an inspired choice to play Ellie’s mother regardless. There are enough similarities between her face and Bella Ramsey’s that I could legitimately believe them as mother and daughter.

It’s not like we have no idea how humanity would react to a vaccine showing up, or what people would do to preserve what power they have.

Now that the season’s done, I can really say that I’m glad that I had no prior knowledge of the game. It seems like knowing the game really well tainted a lot of people’s viewing experience. There were quite frankly a tiring number of pieces analyzing large and small changes from the game. It’s hard for a lot of…

Oh god, that letter from Bill is a really good point. I hadn’t thought of that. 

When Marlene gave Joel that speech about how it’s what Ellie would have wanted, I really wanted him to say, ”Why didn’t you ask her?”

Every time Ellie and Joel encounter humanity, there was nothing worth saving. Bill wrote it in his letter. Humanity isn’t worth the sacrifice. But some humans are.

Love the symbolic choice of using Ashley for the mother.