That’s wrong.

“Every time Ellie and Joel encounter humanity, there was nothing worth saving.”

“it’s a bit ironic since she didn’t ask Ellie either what she wanted (although she’s not wrong that Ellie would probably go through with it)”

“giraffes, even those in captivity, hate being stroked and petted like it is in the game”

A brain tissue biopsy isn’t relevant here. They don’t need a sample of Ellie’s brain - they need the Cordyceps growth itself. But it grows throughout her brain. There’s no way to remove the growth without cutting the brain apart.

Yeah, I have no idea why the mother was changed to a brother. Unless there’s something that happens with this character in the final episodes, this just feels like the adaption making a change to the source material just to make a change.

Yes - Ralph thinks he’s in a episode of Law & Order, not a Stephen King story.

“the kidnap attempt at CaveFest (is this a real thing or invented for the show?)“

In the previous episodes we get the impression that it’s evil because of what it does, but once you know that it feeds off of pain and misery from its deeds, like Holly says it’s just surviving.

At this point Team Holly’s only goal is to provide Claude with an alibi. They don’t know where El Cuco is and have no idea where to start looking for it.

He literally says that he doesn’t look at the box so he doesn’t know what the puzzle is supposed to be. So yes, he would not glance at the box to learn what the puzzle was. It was turned upside down on the floor so even if he looked at the floor he wouldn’t have seen the elephants.

“why does Claude feel the effects of El Cuco copying him when Terry didn’t?”

In the game, right outside of the building where you see the giraffes is a bus shelter with a poster in it advertising the new giraffes just arrived at the local zoo.

“Jordan put a little love on it to acknowledge the obvious snub of one of the most legendary actresses in the room and also a matriarch who he’s regarded so highly since working with her on the first ‘Black Panther’ film.”

“Ms. Bassett held a queen’s composure after being snubbed for Best Supporting Actress in ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’”

“Given Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was already cheated for the Angela Bassett snub”

I’m not even a fan of him, but even I am rolling my eyes every time I hear Black Adam described as a flop or a bomb.

Who could watch the show and seriously think that Rihanna’s song should have won over Naatu Naatu?

This is a joke, right?

I can’t believe we went the whole season and Ellie not being able to swim was never brought up again after she told Joel and Tess that she couldn’t swim.