Seriously.  If you had told me before I saw the first episode that this show would only have 1 Bloater and Joel wouldn’t even fight/kill it, I’d have said you were crazy.  No one even says the word “bloater”!

The previous episode - with Jack taking Holly hostage - is not in the book at all.  In the book Jack is not connected to the main group at all - he gets “infected” by El Cuco but he’s off doing his own thing.  He barely interacts with the main group until the climax of the story.

“no one is awake and no one is covering the back door.”

At this point they have no idea where El Cuco is. They know it’s going to kill another child soon but there is nothing they can do to prevent that. The only thing they can do is try to disrupt its plans to pin the blame on Claude by having as many of them as they can hang around with them so that when the police come…

Why are you even watching this?

There was *one* scene of Ralph in therapy this episode, and it was less-than 5 minutes.

A few episodes before this one, the “Next time on The Outsider” segment at the end of the episode was replaced by “Later this season on The Outside” and it showed a bunch of clips, including one of two of the characters walking in an underground tunnel.

On a similar vein, sometimes actors win Best Actor for a supporting role.

“With Joel still healing up from the physical wound he sustained way back in episode five”

I can’t wait until later this season when we get an episode where Boba Fett shows up and the episode is all about him with no Mando appearance.

“There’s always a bigger fish.”

You’re right - Bo-Katan is now the rightful owner of the Elder Wand.

As someone who played the game first, I fully expected David to be in at least 2 episodes. There is plenty in the game that would justify this being a 2-part story.

“Very fine fungi ... on both sides.”

Ok, I just rewatched that part of the game and in that scene I described David tells one of the Hunters to gather the children and put them somewhere safe while the rest of them hunt Ellie, but he doesn’t mention “women”. So technically in the game we don’t see any women in David’s group and he doesn’t mention them.

I just rewatched this part of the game and David tells one of the Hunters to take the children somewhere safe while the rest of them hunt for Ellie. He doesn’t mention “women”.

I just listened to a podcast discussing this episode and it convinced me that David and James *are* speaking in code when they’re talking about the meat situation (when they say they have deer, elk and rabbit).  When they meet Ellie and David tells James “I’m not speaking in code - get the penicillin.”

I just rewatched this part of the game and David tells one of the Hunters to gather the children and put them somewhere safe while the rest of them hunt Ellie. So he doesn’t mention “women” here.

I just listened to a podcast discussing this episode and they had a theory that David and James *were* talking in code when they mentioned “deer, elk and rabbit”, because later when David tells James to bring back the penicillin for Ellie and says “This isn’t code” it means that he does talk in code with David.

EDIT: Just rewatched this part of the playthrough. David tells one of the Hunters to take the children someplace safe while the rest of them hunt down Ellie. So he doesn’t mention “women”, but it’s safe to assume they are in this group. It’s hard to believe that David’s group consists of adult men and children but no…