21:41, Tess was bitten for sure. The closer the bite is to your head the quicker you change. So a bite near your foot would take longer for you to change that a bite on your neck. The Infected at the end didn't need to bite Tess because she was already bitten. She was struggling to strike the lighter because the fungus was beginning to take over her mind. That soul kiss was just to hasten the linkage of her into the fungal network.

Well yes she IS sure. She does NOT have the infection. Remember they told her that infection starts almost immediately. Like within minutes. IF she had been infected, she'd have already started showing signs.

Fun fact, this episode is the one episode Druckman (the game director and writer) directed himself. Interestingly, it features one of the few non-game segments with the intro and it’s filmed spectacularly. The show is so good and does look exactly like the game so much. I have to emphasize though, this isn’t a story BASED on a game, this story IS the game. They added and very slightly changed a few things (tops 10% total) from the game, but the story in the show and the vast majority of the dialogue is word for word from the game. I heard it well described like this “The game that was made to look like a prestige HBO series, is now a prestige HBO series.”

I cried so much as Tess dies 😢

14:15, online you can find diagrams that show the stages of the infection. Its is quite disturbing that there are actually a couple of more stages after the one shown in this scene.

Just to get a feel of the impact, the "city" she is talking about roughly consists of 45-50 million people.

The cordycepts grows in the mouth as it spreads. When you get bit some of it transfers into your system.

"I'm an orphan and uh... no..." The best words to say. "I'm gay."

As the fungus spreads the look changes, also as it grows on the brain eating up the host from the inside it will slowly grow outwards through the skull and the skin. As the fungus spreads the infected themselves sort of changes, like from a normal runner to a clicker like the one we saw in this episode. Obviously this is because the original enemies are from video games and needs enemies of different power levels to fight lol but it's a fun way to translate that.

It's such a reversal to see a scientist tell a general to bomb the city, and the general looks shocked.

Just saw your channel on my feed. Glad it came up. Great reactions to this show. I haven’t read all your comments so I don’t know if anyone has mentioned this to you yet but the cordyceps fungus is real. Like the part in 1968 says, it only effects insects like an ant for example. If you haven’t yet Google “cordyceps fungus insects” and look at the pictures. It’s really freaky. I’ve played the first game around 12 times and the second 8 times. The TV series is amazing. Thanks for sharing your reactions Mum!

3:06 30 hours, 14 missing potential victims not counting Patient Zero with a time table of 5 minutes to 24 hours to full take over. That is terrifying. And that is why this Doctor made that poor Military man poop himself with one word: Bomb. 8:54 Elli my dear, you don't have to make the "ding" sounds when the bell actually works. 13:33 The jump scare is strong in this one, ten gold stars to the make-up department. Five Gold stars for the Actors as the Clickers. Five Gold stars for Set designers. 19:30 Tess is a Certified Badass, Most Badass of all the Badasses in the History of Badassiness. We are going to induct her into the Halls of Badassiness. Rest well you Badass.

You can't out run clickers. because if you run you make sound and making sound you tell them where you are. Not only can they hear really well, they extremely fast. the best way to either get past them or get close enough to kill them is to be as quiet as you can. Clickers are lethal as hell.

Just an update.. 4th Impact just released their first video here in America!! It is an amazing version of Miley Cyrus' Flowers!!! You will love it!!!

thanks for the reaction 🤠

She's going to grow up and be like Joel someday. And it is brutal.

Is this going to happen every day? I need this Mum. .. Need a break after what's happening in the world (like Marshall & Millions)...

Im in love to an American mum🤗🥰 O hope I wrote it correctly.

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Oh my gosh this show is insane… ooooh I’m so excited

Dimash - FLY AWAY /// NEW NEW

Hahahaaaaa she’s soooo funny

Tess...❤ Okay, without any spoilers... be prepared for the next episode. It was very controversial but I personally feel like it was a masterpiece and one of the best episodes of any TV show ever seen. It left me a bit unstable for like two days 😂 Xxx

Wait a minute, the world famous Mod has a reaction channel? Where have I been? But who's going to mod her reactions?

even though this opening is a sub plot that's not in the actual game. This actress is doing an epic job of selling her performance. She's being professional enough to tell the army what needs to be done and then the realization of what she just says hits her and the restrained emotions she's feeling just start to build and build with the other realization that she won't live for much longer. She already knows it's too late; otherwise she would not have said "Bomb." Just a very strong an real emotional performance. I gladly acknowledge her that. I'm not a fan of Bell Ramsey and I don't think I ever will be for her as Ellie, but all in all, a decent first season. It definitely has its issues, but I'm here for this doctor and her amazing, yet short performance.

❤ this series