Considering in the show the fungus was spread through bread/grain products, it makes sense that all of those infected grain products (pancake mix, cookies, etc) would reach the public and the outbreak would result very quickly after that.

In the game the characters wear gas masks because of spores for such a small amount of time that this excuse is laughable.

“Clearly there is an intention for it to be sexual in a sense. Whether they succeeded at that or not is up to interpretation.”

No mention of the Infected “storming the Capitol building” at the end of the episode?

Where was my automatic weapon when I was fighting Clickers in the museum?  I would have loved to have had that there.

She knows there’s no chance of a vaccine, and that 14 infected people are already on the loose.  She knows there is no chance of containing this to just those 14.  Her solution is to try to contain this to this city and try to prevent it from spreading elsewhere.  It’s sound logic.

Tess is already infected so it doesn’t matter if that Infected puts more fungus into her.  She was just buying time by not running away or fighting back until she could get that lighter to light.

When Joel broke out the tape to use on Tess’ twisted ankle I wanted to shout at him “Save that tape to make a shiv!”

Also, where was my automatic weapon when fighting Clickers in the museum?  I would have loved to have had that weapon there!

No bottles, no bricks, no shivs.

When she said “I don’t know how to swim” I was hoping that for this series they would change it to “I can’t swim” and give a physical reason why she can’t (i.e. inner ear infection was something I heard a lot when I was a kid for someone not being able to swim).

Also, as anyone that has played the game knows, when an enemy is after you, you reload your gun while running, not while standing still.

I always wondered in the game when Joel was in a spore location and wearing his mask and then moved a few feet away and said “Ok, it’s safe now” and took off his mask why it was suddenly safe.  He didn’t close some hermetically-sealed door - if he turned around he would still see the spores a few feet behind him.

I don’t buy the “the show doesn’t want to cover up the actors’ faces with masks” excuse. In the game I think Joel and Tess are the only main characters we see wearing a gas mask because of spores - Tess only does it once (when you’re going through the tunnels looking for Robert) and it’s very brief. SPOILER The…

Before I watched Chernobyl someone spoiled me by telling me that the plant would have a nuclear meltdown.

There are a lot of people watching this show that never played the game or know what happens in it. We shouldn’t spoil the big plot points of the game for those people just because the game is 10 years old.

It’s funny watching playthroughs on YouTube done back in 2013 when the game first came out and hearing players saying “I don’t recognize this Sarah girl, she’s not the one on the box” and “The box just shows Joel and Ellie, not Tess”.

“the director of the episode—none other than co-executive producer and creator of the game himself, Neil Druckmann—had the audacity to film it as an almost dreamy, romantic moment between Tess and the infected host.”

“you promise to let scared Saviors return with you to Hilltop, get them to free you and save your life, then shoot them all in the back.”