Before you comment: 1. "There are barely zombies" yes because they said IN show they gather in cities and for the most part avoided areas where zombies showed up. It's 20 years in. If you want dumb survivors, watch Walking Dead lol 2. Yes I added a sin instead of minusing it on two occasions That's my bad. Spent weeks on this video but I tend to always miss a sin on the sins videos haha. Thank you for pointing that out though! 3. Don't come in here with that "wokeness" comment. You'd probably be gay too in a zombie apocalypse. 4. I like the show! Watch the first 30 seconds of the video before you think otherwise lol 5. Yes I realize Ellie in TLOU2 came from Wyoming NOT Wisconsin. I reused footage from my sins on TLOU2 and forgot about that fact. Still though. Ellie traveled 1k+ miles without issues, and that's thr total point of my argument lol

The soldier being alone at the encounter with Joel and Sara could be a pretty dire indication of how spread thin the National Guard would likely be at the time

Joel's glass plan didn't fail cause Henry and Sam were good at sneaking, it failed because he turned to face Ellie while they were sleeping --> fell asleep on the side of his good ear (which he never does) --> didn't hear them at all

Just noticed that at the beginning of the movie with the neighbors grandma, the dog noticed something was off, and in one scene later on, they use dogs to identify infected from non-infected.

In episode 4, the reason Sam and Henry were able to sneak up on Joel was the same reason it took Ellie saying his name a couple times for him to wake up. Joel is partially deaf in his right ear, caused by his suicide attempt

Honestly I’m with Joel on his final decision just because rushing to operate on Elly instead of just doing some flipping testing first goes to show that they weren’t going to succeed

Glad I'm not the only one who prefers to see the chaos of outbreaks like in Train to Busan rather than just skipping to the post apocalypse, though I agree this show did it very well

Not only is the lawnmower a waste of gasoline, a well-maintained lawn is a beacon saying "hey there's people with supplies here! Come and get it!"

There is a reason why sam was looking out the window because in the game its explained that there is some brain activity left and that they are totally aware so he might be holding back because he knows ellie is there

What does it for me is the that their first idea wasn't to draw some fluids, run tests, figure out and see how the fungus reacts to her and reverse engineer a cure but rather to cut her open and see what they could do. It's even dumber when you realize she's the first immune they've had, possibly the only one they'll get for the foreseeable future and the first response is "We think she developed immunity from her mother being infected with her and we also think she has hormones that make the fungus think she's already turned ergo let's cut her open and find out."

One thing I want to say about the "Fire Fly/ Fed" alliance over Ellie is that it seemed obvious to me that the Fire Flies were going to use the cure to grow their own position and power not to mass produce for the masses. Otherwise they would give Ellie to the Feds as they are the only group with both the means, know how, and resources to actually pull such an endeavor off.

"Instead of the birds in the bees it's the murder in the second degrees." Lol. I love that.

It is amazing that this whole series with 9 episodes each lasting up to an hour and 20 minutes still has less zombies sins than some movies.

An undead frost giant throwing Ellie against a wall would have taken this show to 10/10.

The infection already taking over Tess is the reason why she didn’t resist the ‘kiss’ with the infected. It had already begun taking control of her.

I feel like the Kiss of Death moment was supposed to pose a question of just how intelligent the cordyceps hive mind was, in that it was capable of inviting a doomed, seemingly surrendering individual, rather than just tearing them apart... But that was never further explored since we never see anyone not actively fighting back against the infection again, which I think was for the worse

1:02:44 Reason for the infected not instantly attacking is because they are a “Stalker” (shown by the fungal growth on their head) so they will not blindly attack

To be honest, Joel removing the baseball bat from him should have been a sin because that caused him to bleed out more . If you have a object in you, it's better for you to keep it in so you don't lose any blood. That's why it's smarter to keep it in then bleed out like he was in the show.

Tess wasn’t the only one that survived the explosion. At the very least, Robert survived it as well. Robert later gets killed by the fireflies.

Found it weird that Joel removed the broken baseball bat from his wound. Like, its pretty basic first aid knowledge not to remove the knife/item youve been stabbed with because it can keep you from bleeding out.

I love how in the hospital scene, the show actually focuses on the brutality of Joel. The game just feels like another area, but here you actually feel the weight of what he's doing

i'm a little surprised they don't have more "armor" on in the 20 years that past even if its just simple scrap or magazines taped to the arms just to make it a little safer when dealing with infected

I'm amazed that they were able to fit as much as they did in only 9 episodes

The one note about the school teaching geography only potentially made sense to me because she was training to work as a soldier. I think maybe then it could make sense depending on how spread out they were.

With the infected slowly approaching Tess, the show runner explained that the infected react with the intent of spreading the fungus. If their target acts hostile or attempts to flee, it will use more force to transmit (running and tackling). If the target isn’t resistant, it will react more calmly (walking and…kissing I guess?). But either way, it will accomplish its goal or die trying

I'm pretty sure that tess not moving while being kissed is because of the fungus taking hold of her movements, as her trouble with the lighter. With her last movement that she could actually make being the lighter

The DLC for the first game that showed Ellie getting infected did the arcade screen right. The games where not working Ellie and Riley just imagined playing the game. It was much better and more touching with the whole innocent of youth and trying to experience a world they never would.

For episode 5 i think the reason joel could hit so many shots perfectly is because he was actually in the army before the apocalypse

I've heard that in the game, there's journals you can find that explain that the fireflys have tried the procedure before and failed on other immune people

Given how most video game adaptations are unimpressive or terrible, this show was an incredible breath of fresh air. It’s clear the people who made this show did their homework and actually looked at the source material. Most video game movies/television shows are made by people who don’t play video games and/or know nothing about video games.

A missed -1 sin, they used a real giraffe for the giraffe scene. 10/10 fun fact about the show for me now 😂

The menstrual cup scene was amazing. People always overlook that menstruation will be an issue for about half the surviving population and menstrual cups would be the smartest and safest way. I'm so glad that the show addressed that

Stitching is to prevent scars and foreign matter from entering larger wounds. Unless she went in and sewed up the arteries, reconected the walls of his organs and sanatized the whole area, all she did was gaurantee internal bleeding. Especially without a drip tube to allow for blood puss etc to flow out. Honestly it would have been better to just allow the wound to stay open and monitor for infection

I gotta say. That speech after Joel's scar hit pretty close to home man. This'll get lost to comments but thank you. I've been in some very dark places and hearing that made me think about what I've tried and how much I would've lost now if I did it. Again. Thank you.

I think Bill was running his generator off natural gas as he was shown diverting natural gas valves in the prepping montage and to my knowledge natural gas doesn't have a shelf life like normal gasoline so at least it wouldn't go bad, Not sure how much more realism this adds in terms of him not running out though because i cant imagine smaller new england towns would have that much in storage . Although Bill may have converted his system to propane when the natural gas supply ran out and started scavenging propane tanks from the surrounding towns.

18:20 I wanna know why, after confirming that stepping on fungi would 'wake' the infected, did Joel crush it with his gun to make sure they were safe. If it turned out it wasn't dry and dead they would've been screwed immediately!

Despite the fact that Ellie's mom was under attack, her labor seemed pretty easy. She only pushed once and Ellie was out.

The Fireflies method of trying to make a cure reminds me of The Girl With all The Gifts, how scientists were using children born with a fungal infection to try and make the same type of cure against the infected, but the doctors could only speculate and never found a concrete method to actually use it and they had dozens of subjects that they butchered and failed at, the same thing could have happened to Ellie, they screw up playing at a cure and they essentially just kill someone without gaining anything.

I figured there would be sin's for the weirdly placed bite marks on ellie, riley and anna. I get that the struggle scenes with the sprinters are chaotic, but if you notice, none of the infected get anywhere near where theyre ultimately bitten. Also, something to keep in mind. Earlier in this episode you make note of the bite chart in the background of the Fedra Building where the little boy was killed, how it shows you the infection rate is dependent on where you were bit, right? Face/head is 5-15 minutes. Arm, hand, torso 5-12 hours, and the legs being 12-24 hours. Anna was bitten on the thigh in her fight with the infected, so when you take into account the info-graphic, there probably wasn't enough time for Ellie to become exposed to the fungus through the Umbilical Cord the way everyone thinks. However, it is how she became infected. Anna killed the sprinter with the switchblade first, then immediately used it to cut Ellie's umbilical cord after finding the bite. She didnt sterilize the blade, so, I'd say she probably got infected that way.

For those who didn't know the reason why the deaf boy didn't attack ellie was because he was turned away from her and deaf so he couldn't hear her move to attack her. It's also why nug sets him off

I think the Biggest sin of all, is the Firefly lady that tasked the mission was already in Colorado waiting for them. Like you could have escorted her this whole time, with from my body count at the hospital with a small army that can’t even kill one guy. Even then still handed her off to a guy that nearly dies and starts to love the girl like she’s his own.

I feel like Ellie’s “Cure” wouldn’t honestly change a thing about the world and the world they live in. It’s not like the Infected don’t go out of their way to attack her, we see that multiple times that regardless that she’s immune, they still go for her. With the amount of infected there are, the only thing they need to worry about is just not being Torn apart which Marlene even tells Joel will happen to her. The thought of a Vaccine is a great thought but it’s meaningless when the best it gives is False hope

Well, Anna used the same knife to cut Ellie's cord as she used on the zombie... So guessing plenty of bio hazard introduced that way too 🤣

Dude that montage at the end had me dying, every single one of those references is just gold and shows the breadth of your knowledge and comedic talent. Thank you so much for this

31:23 I kinda like that Poppa Joel didn't allow 14 year old Ellie to have a gun. At the beginning of the story he subconsciously viewed her as Sarah so I liked the plot device that he was trying to save her innocence even in a crazy world. I also love the conversation they had both in game and in the show about giving her the gun and keeping themselves safe with it. Super responsible dad move even though their situation was fucked

the creator said in an interview the infected don’t have to spread the infection violently if you’re not trying to stop them from spreading it. since tess wasn’t fighting back the infected just calmly spread the fungus to her through her mouth. as for why tess didn’t fight back my theories are either she was in shock or trying to stay calm to not get attacked or the cordyceps was already taking hold of her brain and limiting her movement.

For episode 3 i do think Bill was being stupid to go out into the street but not for drama for the show but because he loved Frank and was trying to draw the gunfire away from the house to keep him safe. As it does show when Frank is heading to get his gun some shots go thrpugh the house so i think Bill was shooting from cover, saw them hitting the house and decided to draw the fire away to protect Frank. Dumb but for love

One thing ive always found odd in TLOU, are the fireflies, not just one thing they do but, their entire group. Theyre shown in the show and the game to actively attack and provoke save zones, to be essentially making things up as they go in terms of their plans regarding researching the infection, all with a barely existing leadership role. Its amazing they lasted as long as they had, but it really makes me question just how likely they would be at not only making, but testing, further testing and distributing a vaccine that they dont even know is plausible to work or exist. Like, had they decided to work with what remained of the government, CDC and military rather than putting what remains of the US population at risk with their attacks and destabilization, they probably would have been far more successful in not only finding out why Ellie was immune, but also in attempting to recreate her immunity in other test subjects, to then figure out a proper vaccine or even just a counter measure/suppressant using the mutated strain of the fungus (think the virus suppressant Antizin from Dying Light)

Another small sin I`d say is the fact that Ellie survived the bite in the first place. Immunity to the fungus is one thing, but a human/animal bite can kill you via blood infection anyway, since mouths are known to contain many forms bacteria. Especially when it goes deeper than the first layers of skin. Don't get me wrong, I like the outcome of her being alive, but it`s one small thing that I think didn't get addressed XD

The opening of episode two really captured the severity of the situation and was one of the best scenes of the whole show.

The introductions of the bloater was badass though It just rising up out the ground all ominous like while hordes and hordes of clickers just pour out beside him Masterpiece

15:55 elle: *twitches* joel: it's machine gun time

Tess is freaked out by the infected in that pathway because it wasn’t there the last time she came. Meaning there’s a hole in the QZ somewhere where infected can get through. Honestly kind of genius foreshadowing for a certain other QZ and maybe even a hint that the Boston QZ isn’t long for this world.

Tess wasn’t the only one to survive from that explosion in the first episode though: Robert survived as well and even managed to escape. The only ones who were killed were just the guys standing close to the wall.

Bill standing out in the middle of the street silhouetting himself against the backdrop of a fire is the most unbelievable thing

MatPat theorised her immunity is another variant of cordyceps.

I feel like the kiss of death in ep2 was the fungus trying to connect with Tess as she was already infected, not speed up the process. The fungus sensed she was already infected so treated her like she already turned.

the only thing that drove me nuts was in episode 2, why mess around with the lighter when Tess could've just grabbed some of the hand grenades on the floor and started pulling pins? Also Joel should've definetly taken atleast one of those hand grenades.

Just got to say I would have categorized the bite to Tess's "neck" as a shoulder bite giving her 2-8 hours instead of 5-15 minutes

At 46:58 I love how when wow says just it’s perfectly timed to Tommy’s voice actor getting killed😂

8:25 the explosion doesn't kill everyone, they're all found dead later in the apartment building where Joel and Tess find Marlene and Ellie 9:13 Jackson is in Wyoming, not Wisconsin

And I’m pretty sure the creepy guy had a mountain of meat on his plate he was eating, while others had like a soup with 2/3 chunks of meat

How could not add the Dina moment in episode 6. and not take out a sin in episode 9 for having Ashley Johnson being Anna, Ellie's mother? that casting is very poetic.

Much respect for the Metalocalypse riff. Bet 99% of people missed it.. good video sir. Keep it up.

Also in ‘Left Behind’ when Ellie asks Riley how she got recruited and Riley’s story is ridiculous. The leader of the Fireflies is just like “Hey, you’re out at night and say you don’t like fedra. Definitely not a plant. Welcome!”

Honestly if they let Joel and Ellie talk before the operation, I think Ellie would’ve have help him comes to terms with her going through the operation. But I wouldn’t think a vaccine would even work, base on the fact that in the first episode they state you couldn’t make a vaccine for this infection.

If I’m not mistaken, the generator Bill has runs on natural gas (how he got his stove going), so he wouldn’t be using watered down gas 10-20 years later if he tapped into a gas line. If he was truly a “prepper”, he’d have that and not one that goes off gasoline. I have a Generac installed for our house that kicks on automatically when the power goes out (so nothing is interrupted/flickers). It runs off of natural gas - only thing we do is check the oil regularly and make sure we have parts on hand in case of anything going awry. We were able to run it a week straight during the ice storm a couple years ago without ever worrying about gas … powered the whole house, allowed us to cook, stay warm, run hot showers, and house our neighbors and their daily needs. Definitely the way to go for such things. I’ll never go back to a gasoline generator. So, thought I’d put that out there, because not a lot of people know that there are generators (like ones hospitals use) that are big and run off a natural source that one doesn’t have to scour all over for when it comes to residential use. Considering Bill’s stove was already tapped into a gas line (as we saw with the flame on the stove), it only makes sense a Generac equivalent is what he has setup to power everything that long. Definitely feasible as long as one maintains the unit.

That panel in the beginning of the first episode is still my favorite scene in the show. That’s not to talk bad about any other part, no. That’s to say that scene is so well done and conveys the point so well it just stands high competitively.

The reason Fireflies didn't involve FEDRA on Ellie is because they thought FEDRA would have monopolized the cure and given it to only ppl they wanted to and/or sold (barter, etc) it to the general populous.

A few things, first Bill going out into the street is actually a good move. His main goal is to protect Frank so he goes out to draw the raiders fire. Makes sense tactically given Bill’s goals and is also super sweet character building showing how munch Bill loves Frank. Second, Bill generates power using natural gas (see the scene where he breaks into a natural gas power plant) and natural gas has an indefinite shelf life.

Your memes at the end were top tier and A nice pallete cleanser. Thank you brother.

When you stated saying “okay here’s my biggest issue with this episode” on the frame of frank and bill kissing I got scared for a sec lmao

With Bill going outside I want to chalk that up to training failure. He's so used to infected that his instinct is they cant get him at distance. Like watching a professional shooter shoot once then drop their mag as part of a speed event.

At 9:14, Ellie didn't travel from Jackson, WI. She was originally at Jackson, WY. Still a far distance to Santa Barbara, but not nearly as much.

the soldier being alone at start is likely because they are stretch too thinly because of the sheer scale of the outbreak

I really appreciate the gag reel at the end of this episode.. The Last of Us is extremely dark and the laughs came right before I was about to start bawling about it all over again.

I can't stop thinking about the fact that canonically the Cordyceps outbreak happened under George W. Bush 💀

I think the most impressive thing about this show is how much impact some of the characters that only had a brief appearance had on the show. Ibu Ratna (the Mycologist from Jakarta) made such an impact that I was still actively thinking of her even by Episode 9, the Ellie's FEDRA instructor from Episode 7 made me want to learn more about the day to day structure of the organization. The kid who got shot by Ellie in Kansas city made me think about the consequences of mistakes made in fear, and him begging for his mom and freaking out over his legs in the moment felt like such a realistic reaction. Marlon and Florence and their short little scene up in the mountains felt like such an oasis of comfort, and I found myself wanting to see more of them even though I knew in the show it wouldnt make sense. Anna of course made me wonder if she was part of the same group as Frank, as they were escaping around the same time and Frank mentioned a large group that was thinned out. All of these characters were only in the show for 5 to 10 minutes at most, but they added so much richness to the world and story of the show. I've never seen a show utilize minor characters in such a strong way before.

Bro i swear, the few seconds of hearing the hillbilly menu music before the text made me go insane xD great video

I love the idea of picking apart the realities of a zombie apocalypse movie. We're gonna pick apart how Tommy should of taken longer to arrive at Joel's due to the amount of traffic that should of been on the road, as a zombie runs past with its limbs missing and starts eating people.

i just now realized what made left behind even more heart breaking was that when ellie realized she was immune she had to kill riley

They explained why tess struggled with the lighter and also why she just kind of submitted. She was infected she was turning she was losing motor functions or rather she was losing her ability to use her own motor functions, she didn’t just submit cause “welp I’m dead anyways might as well be assaulted by a zombie at the same time” she literally COULDNT move because the fungi had already taken over.

Good job man, I couldn’t put down this video, great work 😊

Whole video held my intrest well enough. That outro tho 😂👌 cherry on top. Liked, subbed, bell eh.. bell never works anyways lol. All the best! ✌

I appreciate how you keep the ridiculous sins to a minimum. Unlike a certain other Sin channel.

In the end is complicated for me to side with Marlene , because they don't really know if whatever they are going to do with Ellie will work, they are doing all of that only on "our doctor THINKS this and that" and that's not good enough reason to kill the only inmune person there (probably) is and if it doesn't work then they lose that

I've been waiting for this! (I'm a bit behind, but I knew it would be coming, so I checked and it was here!)

This is really well done....i just finished the season..its cool to see ur perspective about the series and its awesome to watch such a breakdown ...esp in a long format...really long....lol...something to listen to whilst im at work tmr

The one question I have about episode 5 is how the hell did Sam get diagnosed with cancer?? Most cancers require professional scans or biopsy surgery with lab tests to diagnose. There’s no way that’s happening 20 years into the apocalypse without a highly functional hospital.

You're so right, mountain mama was one of the best parts of this show. I kept replaying their part and would happily love to see more from them. Shame it wouldn't work with the plot, but I secretly like to imagine that they visit them from time to time after going back to Jackson after the end of the show

17:44 Have you met a teacher? Twenty years in they would still be making my kids learn all the Kings and Queens, with all the dates and everything. And you think they won't spend an entire year on collecting rainfall in little cups and banging on about crop rotation? I figure that to be one of the apocalyptic bits of the apocalypse.

Bill and Frank was a bitter sweet story but gives me hope I might find someone one day.

Mr. Adler changed after Joel saved Sarah and put her in the truck with him and Tommy. There was no way to tell how long since he’s been bit, but after they got in the truck and drove off, you can then see him running out of the house and attacking a neighbor that was outside as Sarah watched. That could have been within the 5-15 minute mark he was bit.

For episode 3 I think that the attack wasn't the first but just the more crucial one for us to see. And by the time they're old the raiders probably after maybe 7 attempts just said screw it and opted to ignore it

1:14:00 I can actually explain the building going up in flames like that. Even a well-maintained building will age, and the wood will take on a quality known as Matchbox wood. Matchbox wood doesn't take long at all to start burning. I should know. Unfortunately, my childhood home burned down. It wasn't even five minutes before the entire house was up in flames, so I can only imagine how fast a 20-year-old neglected building would go up.

@1:07:36 Penicillin is actually supremely easy to manufacture and concentrate; both on a small scale and a large scale. It does require some special chemicals, but nothing that couldn't be acquired or manufactured. The hardest of these in a post-apoc situation will likely be ethyl acetate. But since it's just more fermentation, and you have to ferment for the penicillin, I think we got this when SHTF. All you really need to make that is ethyl alcohol and some vinegar; but this stuff is manufactured now on industrial levels pmuch everywhere, so they wouldn't be hard pressed to find some, it lasts basically forever when properly stored in cool-dry places away from light and oxygen sources. For starters, all you need is a small set of bread and time. The bread does need to be inspected after growth for the correct fungi and no toxic fungi, but that can be basically ensured in a controlled environment aging room. You're looking for a blue-green color. More thorough tests should be done, but these are more complicated. Penicillin was first extracted without these tests, however, so it can be done safely. All you need is one from the set, this starts the culture. Once you have a culture, just keep the culture alive and you don't need to do the bread step again. To do this, all you need is plant matter, but higher density calorie is better. Just pull seeds from the culture, start fermentation runs, strain, then extract the penicillin using the ethyl acetate. Honestly, for this group of starving demi-cannibals, the hardest part of the entire ordeal is going to be the bread step. But there are other potential starters of this mold and really all it takes is just one and you can feed the culture from dissolved grass clippings.

My biggest sin I refuse to drop is how epic the Bill part could have been. In game the town isn’t completely safe. It isn’t magically walled off and survived without destruction and you see it first hand; And? You see Bill’s traps and it gives you an idea of how ingenuous he is and how he survived. I would have much rather had an episode or two dedicated to surviving with Bill and getting the car battery. I’m not even going to throw in the fact that Bill had an FAL but only ever uses a shotgun.. (And before you or say- “WeLl sHoTgUn Is MoRe PoWeRfUl” FAL is firing a .308/7.62 lol with a 20 round magazine instead of a 6 round tube..) And who collects a massive wall of handguns like that and never uses them? Infact, Bill in the show had a stockpile of weapons and ammunition- Why did Joel take a simple hunting rifle instead of.. An FAL? An FAL that would probably have multiple magazines and many rounds- Idunno. That still bites me. Such a beautiful firearm that only gets like 2 seconds of screen time and is never seen again: Ain’t no man can justify leaving an FAL behind and- During a raider attack.. standing out in the middle of an open street with a hunting rifle firing instead of- The perfect weapon for raiders… An FAL

Am I the only one who noticed the second disclaimer on episode 3 where the raider is in the electric fence and it reads underneath "not this, this was cute and showed finding joy in life". Props to the editor who missed that and gave me one heck of a laugh

50:00 this scene right here, god... I did not think I would see it ever again. I remember playing the Last of Us when all three of my siblings me included were still living in my Mom's house. I remember how painful this scene was having a younger brother myself in that age too back then. I really felt that pain.

Subbed because of your hammy speech. Keep up the good work!💪