It did not have to be in it at all, and was just plain stupid to include any info about upcoming episodes.

Seriously. I just noted that above. I love and know the games well, but there’s literally millions of viewers who don’t even know it’s based on a game, let alone the games’ plots. This is all new for the vast majority of viewers and dropping spoilers like that is bullshit.

Absolutely stunning episode. That’s how you take inspiration from source material and adapt to a different medium while remaining true to the original’s themes. It deftly gets the characters to roughly the same emotional space they are at this point in the game plot, particularly Joel, while changing the particulars…

My loathing for this reviewer continues to increase. Stop putting spoilers in your recaps! Not everyone has played the game and knows what happened to Ellie’s friend.

Exactly. In the context of the show, Bill and Frank had the happiest possible ending: dying on their own terms, in their own bed, at an old age, in eachother’s arms, after one last perfect day together.

It was on TNT and it’s big bads were spider aliens and mechs, so very CGI heavy. They spent their money pretty well all things considered.

It actively drives me crazy how misused Bury Your Gays gets used by wokescolds online, especially as someone who makes and consumes a lot of queer-themed horror work. 

Good recap - but did this have to be in it -

Yeah -- Hell, the headline itself totally gives away the first twist, even if you don’t read the article and only see the headline, with no intentions of going into it and spoiling it for yourself. Nice, right?

I loved when Bill giggles in pure joy at the taste of the strawberry.

- I’m glad they moved on from showing Sarah’s death in the “previously on”. I was worried they’d show Sarah’s AND Tess’, and then we’d just have a progressively more morbid recap every week.

Hey - just a reminder that some of us haven’t played the game, and also don’t watch the show the minute it comes out. Maybe be a bit more careful with the titles of your reviews? 

I brought this up here with House of the Dragon and the discourse around, anyone who thinks gay characters dying = the “bury your gays” trope needs to read The Celluloid Closet or watch the equaling good documentary based on it.

While “bury your gays” exists as far back as works of 18th Century literature, it was coined…

As a queer person, I didn’t read it as a Bury Your Gays at all – they didn’t die because of homophobic brutality or tragedy, they died because they were old and content, it’s really the most beautiful, sweet, and sad episode of TV I’ve seen in a long time.

So I take it these reviews are only for people who have played the games? Because several plot points were just laid out there, like Ellie’s sexuality, her schoolmate Riley who is a romantic partner... who definitely dies? Thanks for all those plot points. 

That countdown-to-the-18th-birthday shit is just so fucking gross, and it hasn’t gone anywhere. Millie Bobbie Brown and Billie Eilish both had to suffer it lately. I wish we could make some kind of unofficial online registry for guys who do shit like that, so they could never get laid by decent women again.

She may have compartmentalized to survive it, but she is well aware that it is not something that she would allow her own daughters to do.

My first thought was that a solid gold cylinder the size of a beer can would weigh well over 10 lbs, making the winning packs not difficult to determine.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

It could be something like netflix would keep it for 5 years, and then it would live on Amazon. Disney had a lot of movies and stuff that were stuck on other streaming platforms for years before they could come to Disney Plus due to previous agreements.