Fun Fact! The voice actors that performed the Male and Female Clicker sounds in the game are providing voice-over for them in the show. In the BTS, after the show, they mentioned that the stunt performers they used for the Clickers were fans of the game and captured the Clicker movements from the start.
18:39 The reason that they’re ducking or putting the glass between themselves and the clickers is because, while unable to see, the clicks are meant to function as a basic sort of echolocation. You want to have something between you and a clicker so that they can’t easily find you. It wasn’t represented in the gameplay of the first game, but very much was in the second.
It was also an easter egg for the fans, as the ducking and crouched movement was a direct representation of the sneak mechanic of the characters in the game.
The crazy part is there are blind people who can echo locate in real life. Literally they make click sounds and hear if there is any obsticle in front of them. The best of them can tell the general size, shape in front of them.
Jakarta is known for the largest flour mill in the world. It's pretty much confirmed at this point. Many people have pointed out in less than 30 minutes of the show Joel and Sarah avoid eating products with flour. No pancake mix, refused biscuits, left before the raisins cookies, and Joel forgot the cake. Breadcrumbs left by the writers that they just happen to avoid fungus in the flour imported from Jakarta. Lmfao. I watched the first episode with my mom who has never even seen the game. And she is enjoying it. Even though she is scared in the tense parts. She can't wait for episode 3. And she thought I was a fucking genius because before the episode started I said that Jakarta was mentioned in the first episode and had the world's largest flour mill and it possibly started there since Joel and Sarah literally avoided products with flour 4 tines in less than. 30 minutes of the show. And the very next episode starts in Jakarta.
I was a bit dumb this week and made a bunch of spaghetti bolognaise for dinner before watching this episode that I'd loaded with mushrooms. There were a couple of looks at my bowl with a "I've made a terrible mistake" 😂
Something that I feel was missing from other zombie apocalypse stories is that this story uses tension, not jump scares, to cause fear. It’s not a clicker showing up behind you suddenly. It’s seeing the clicker walk past you…and does it hear you?!
And there were so many perfect setups for jumpscares too, like when Joel is reloading his gun, they could've had the clicker jump at Joel right when he looks around the corner (like in the teaser trailer for the game), or when the doctor is inspecting the mouth of a dead infected, they could've had the body come alive at the last second. But the show doesn't do that, yet the audience is still scared because it's thought of it possibly happening that's scary.
Fun trivia here - A lot of the show was filmed in Calgary, Alberta! A lot of those landscape shots of the city are just the regular Calgary skyline with some added vines and ruin. The overpass they were on is a major road leading into downtown and they had it closed for a couple days for shooting. The owner of the watch shop in the first episode is a quite well known live theatre actor here in Calgary too! So definitely some green screen and added effects, but not as much as you may think!
To answer your question Jay, clickers can't see, but they can feel people through echolocation - which is why it's important that they don't move around close to them and allow that noise to bounce off their bodies.
I love how the fungus probably sensed the fungus spread inside Tess so it tried to connect to it via her mouth. With human perception that's a disturbing kiss, from the fungus' perspective it's just going for the most optimal way to connect and grow.
"If they can't see, why are you ducking?", clickers click for echo-location. So if you're standing by them, they'll 'see' you by the sound bouncing off of you, like bats and dolphins.
Even though I played the game and knew how it would go down I was somehow even MORE terrified in the museum scene than when I played the game! The fact that Neil Druckman himself directed this episode makes it even more perfect. And from the cold open showing how cordyceps originated in Jakarta it proves the Bread Theory was right. Which makes rewatching the pilot even MORE tense because you see how lucky Joel, Tommy and Sarah were that they didn’t get infected from eating any flour based foods. As for Tess’ ending, I think it was actually done better than the game. The scene of the mycelium (the fungal threads) going into her mouth was incredibly disgusting but the look in her eye when it happened showed that even though she was about to turn into one of them she managed used that iron will of hers to force herself through those last seconds before turning to burn them all. Stand and applaud for Anna Torv everyone!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Fun Fact: So Neil Druckman and Craig Mazin did more research on fungus and found out that if spores were as much of a threat as they are in the game that humanity would be completely wiped out. So they changed it to another scary fact about fungus which is that there are some species that grow so big that they can cover entire acres of rainforest in Brazil. So they added that instead of spores.
Yeah, they're using the mycelial network aspect of fungi, which makes it even more interesting (and scary). When Ellie mentioned spores in the episode my first thought was "If that was the case humanity would have been even more royally fucked than they already are". There would indeed be no one left, and the demise of humanity as a whole would go exponentionally faster the more infected humans there are. If you don't nip it in the bud you might as well give up because it's game over.
There's a large fungus in the Upper Peninsula of MI that is at least 30 acres and is really old. When I used to live there, there was a festival celebrating it.
Another confident & self-assured cold open - props to those actors! Have loved Anna Torv in Fringe, The Pacific, Mindhunter, The Newsreader and now TLOU - sad to lose her this early :(
You never know, we may get lucky. And have flashbacks with her this season or maybe even next. It might be unlikely. But it would be nice to see some of what happened in those twenty years.
The cast and crew spent over a year filming in various locations in Alberta. The scene on the bridge and the museum were all filmed in Calgary, if I recall. The practical effects and attention to detail is just amazing. So hauntingly beautiful. Great reaction as always and I'm totally with Adam on all the gross fungi stuff; I gagged at the end LOL.
Just a bit of trivia. The population of Jakarta in 2003 was 8.7 million. Imagine having to wipe out that many people in one hit. Also the 24th September is two days before Joel's birthday. So in two days the infection had spread from Indonesian to USA.
I think when he says "If you feel sick exit immediately" he means if you have to puke run out of the examination room to do it. Don't take the mask off in there. That's how my brain made sense of it. Not even joking here. When my wife and I were watching this episode I said to her, "That's what I forgot at the store. I wanted to get some mushrooms!" She's not a fan of mushrooms really but she's at least at them before. You are a mad man Adam!
I just read a great quote by the creator Craig Mazin (in regards to the kiss), "We were already talking about tendrils coming out and we were asking these philosophical questions, 'Why are infected people violent? If the point is the spread the fungus, why do they need to be violent?' We landed on that they don't. They're violent because we resist, but what if you don't? What does it look like if you just stand perfectly still and let them do this to you? Then we landed on this nightmare fuel."
So, here is the thing: Ophiocordyceps is a tropical fungus. And I live in Brazil, where there are around 22 cataloged species of Ophiocordyceps. Oh, are you suspicious of mushrooms? My dudes, I'm absolutely TERRIFIED of them.
I like that they start every episode so far throwing new backstory into the dangers of this fungus, not even as a plot in the show, but as a real life threat
Just because Jay and Adam were like "why not dropping her off and go for Tommy!?" in the beginning. I felt like Joel and Tess are on different sides here. Tess sees Ellie and her bite mark for what it is, a miracle and a chance, she allows herself to hope. And there is Joel, who we know as someone who cut himself off from having any positive emotions because he is afraid of getting hurt again, just like it was with Sarah. Tess knows how to talk to Joel, so he will comply. Joel sees Ellies bite mark and still won't allow himself to hope and that's why he is like "she won't have a life", "it probably just takes longer for her to turn" and "we heard of miracle cures and shit like that, it's never true". Even when she got bit a second time and just shruks it off, Joel says "the first bite didn't but the second one will probably get her". He is so afraid of hurting again, that believing in the hope that Ellie presents is just impossible.
they changed the lore and made the cordyceps 10 times scarier. I didn't know that was possible... They took the source material and made it better. Just wow...
18:40 Clickers can “see” in sort of a cone in front of them with their basic echolocation (the clicks). Ducking makes *absolutely sure* that if they turn their head real fast, since they’re so herky jerky anyway, they’re not going to see anything but the bench. Doesn’t matter much if you make noise behind it though, as shown in the scene
I never played the game, but I am digging the show! I thought I was sick of zombie stories but so far the show has totally engrossed me. The acting is fantastic and I especially love the camera-work so far, it makes me so tense
This isn't a zombie story, it's actually a love story. It's a story about the good things love can make people do, and the awful things it can make people do. Most "Zombie" stories are not actually about zombies. George Romero zombie movies were social commentaries, Dawn of the Dead for example is about consumerism, hence why it takes place in a mall.
If they can't see, why are you ducking? Because echo-location works by reflecting sound/'clicks' off the surfaces they hit to give the 'emitter' an image in the minds eye. If the sound cannot reflect off you, because you aren't in the line of sound, they CANNOT possibly 'see' you to find you.
Favorite quotes from this one…“Looks like I hate it..” “we’re in a burned out ChiChi’s!” “Oh there’s no way, oh god no” “He died doin what he loved” “bellhoppin?” “There’s a lot of mushrooms…” “It’s so worse! It’s so worse!” 😂😂😂😂
I am sure by now you have seen it but the fungus spreads in flower and grain products. The people next door had biscuits and cookies while the main characters did not and were out of pancake mix.
Mycology is amazing. The "antenna" looking stalks growing from infected people are flowering bodies that release spores. Mushrooms are the fungi's reproductive organs like flowers and the stalks are mushroom bodies. I never played the game, but I'm surprised there is no concern for airborne infection since spores are the way fungi propagate. It's probably explained in the game, but it does surprise me to see the everyone walking around without respirators (and exposed skin for that matter since spores can infiltrate that way too).
In the game, airborne contamination is an issue - you need a gas mask to get through many areas. They dropped it in the show for a few reasons, but I suspect mostly because they didn't want the cast faces covered all the time
@@JBWinter Thanks for the info. Spores are the way fungi reproduce so it was odd the show ignored that. It makes sense about the face masks. I'm sure Pedro doesn't want to do another show where his face is covered lol
To all mushroom fans like Jay, especially those who watch the series: cordyceps TEA exists and is legally available. Yes, you can put cordyceps in your organism TODAY! Fun!
I discovered a new area of disgust and fear for me. Apparently holes in the skin and fungus taking over the mouth and body makes me nauseous. I was basically Adam throughout the whole episode. I was enjoying the story but being disgusted by the creepy sickies. Other than that this was a great episode!
You two have been my favorite reactors for YEARS now! So happy to follow this series with you two. AND you used my favorite intro for these ones :D That song is stuck in my head all day after hearing it :P
For any sci-fi book readers who for some reason want to bask in more fungal horror, allow me to recommend the _Revelation Space_ series of novels. As part of the worldbuilding/backstory, human nanotech gets corrupted by an alien computer virus, and proceeds to eat+grow in fungal fashion. Entire cities get a goopy makeover. Humans with nanotech-enabled brain implants get .. weird. Oh, and to still be able to use technology at all, humans have to revert to larger, clunkier machines ... so it's very steampunk, too.
watching the reaction to the first episode and adam going all gaggy on the fungi and else, all i could think about was tess' last scene and laugh maniacally. love u adam
You know fungi represents 2 billion years of evolution on this planet. That means fungi has had 2 billion years to get better at everything it requires to not just exist but to thrive. If you ever feel like traveling down the rabbit hole of a fascinating subject check out fungi.
I can answer your question, the scene on the bridge was shot in Calgary, Canada. The bridge is real, the plants on the bridge are real, so are the background buildings. The editors use CGI to paint on top of all the buildings to make them look crumbled and old. Which is why when you freeze the frame, it looks like a painting.
I think even though the clickers are blind, they were ducking behind objects because echolocation would make it easier for the clickers to spot them as a moving target out in the open, that is what I thought at least
My roommate was an extra last winter in Canmore, Alberta. She has no idea what the game is, but said she was in a large group of people. It sounded like a slaver situation, but I'm definitely looking out for what she described.
4:58 - The Doctor pulls the fungi from the woman’s mouth. Jay: “No! She has spaghetti!” Me: literally eating a mouthful of spaghetti when he said that. With mushrooms in it.
I love that you do this. So first I watch the episode then listen to the official podcast then your reaction so I get everything I need to process the emotional trauma of this series 😂
Speaking as someone who has used a crossbow I can assure you it isn't as quiet as they make it out, especially if you miss lol. If it hits something like wood it is loud af lol. Definitely quieter than a gun but not as silent as tv and movies make it.
I grew up in Boston, and I really appreciated that the attention to detail that the show runners put into the geography of this episode. Fun fact, this episode for the most part takes place in the financial district of Boston by the Old State House
Yup!.... That scene in that lab morgue...., yup, I'm with you. BURN IT ALL!! ALL OF IT !! Heck, if we bring in the Cinder King dragon from Vox Machina, we'd be so gooooooood!
What I really appreciated about this episode was the scientist woman in the beginning. Once she saw what was going on and heard how the situation was after 30 hours, she made a very hard call. Especially when she asked to go home and be with her family. Firstly, this is not a politician or military specialist that makes ‘life or death’ calls on a daily basis, so saying ‘we need to bomb the shit out of the whole city’ is a big freaking deal. Secondly, she doesn’t even try to get herself out of the situation. She knows how bad it is and the possibility that she or her family might have been infected by the flour or grain ingested and that she wants to die with her family and not possibly contribute to the spread speaks volumes. Great episode and we thank you both for your discomfort for the content you bring us.
love the reaction, you guys are hilarious! i don’t know if anyone’s explained it yet but i believe the reason that they were ducking behind objects while evading the clickers is because they use the clicking for echo location. not 100% sure if it was ever said in the game but i remember seeing it somewhere i think?
Imagine if this show was happening at the same time as Andor, but like the day after (How many butt diamonds would be created by the combined level of tension from both shows?) And the wild thing - we already know what's going to happen if you've played the game and it STILL is delivering!
So it started in the grain and flour in Indonesia....good thing Joel and Tommy didn't have waffles....or biscuits....or cake....or cookies in episode 1.
I'm not sure they used a green screen on the bridge at all. That skyline is mostly recognizable as the Calgary, Alberta skyline, as viewed from the bridge they were filming on. It's been edited though to insert some recognizable buildings from Boston. But many of the visible buildings are exactly what you would see from that bridge today if you went there, just without the decay.
It's true that Clickers are blind but they can still see you in a sense. If they shriek in your direction they can detect you with echolocation so ducking behind cover is still necessary.
Fun Fact! The voice actors that performed the Male and Female Clicker sounds in the game are providing voice-over for them in the show. In the BTS, after the show, they mentioned that the stunt performers they used for the Clickers were fans of the game and captured the Clicker movements from the start.
Let's all thank Adam for suffering through this twice just for our entertainment. Thanks Adam!
Why twice?
Makes me wonder why he ever played the game. :)
I 😂😂 so hard at them talking to future Adam and his suffering 😂😂
@@Sage2000 Editing
@@gadiac89 ah thank you
18:39 The reason that they’re ducking or putting the glass between themselves and the clickers is because, while unable to see, the clicks are meant to function as a basic sort of echolocation. You want to have something between you and a clicker so that they can’t easily find you. It wasn’t represented in the gameplay of the first game, but very much was in the second.
It was also an easter egg for the fans, as the ducking and crouched movement was a direct representation of the sneak mechanic of the characters in the game.
The crazy part is there are blind people who can echo locate in real life. Literally they make click sounds and hear if there is any obsticle in front of them.
The best of them can tell the general size, shape in front of them.
Jakarta is known for the largest flour mill in the world. It's pretty much confirmed at this point. Many people have pointed out in less than 30 minutes of the show Joel and Sarah avoid eating products with flour. No pancake mix, refused biscuits, left before the raisins cookies, and Joel forgot the cake. Breadcrumbs left by the writers that they just happen to avoid fungus in the flour imported from Jakarta.
Lmfao. I watched the first episode with my mom who has never even seen the game. And she is enjoying it. Even though she is scared in the tense parts. She can't wait for episode 3. And she thought I was a fucking genius because before the episode started I said that Jakarta was mentioned in the first episode and had the world's largest flour mill and it possibly started there since Joel and Sarah literally avoided products with flour 4 tines in less than. 30 minutes of the show. And the very next episode starts in Jakarta.
hehe, breadcrumbs
Yes I saw something about this theory after episode 1 and really picked up on it this time.
Ellie had a chicken sandwich. That bread could have potentially been infected as well? Another immunity for Ellie.
Tommy ate fried chicken in the beginning of episode 1.
@Jimmie Rudolfsson fried chicken doesn't always need flour.
When Jay started singing “looks like I hate it…” I lost it!! 😂😂I’ve never laughed so hard 😂
Me too!
He does it all the time too. I don't remember the specific episodes, but it never gets old
@@vincentdurocher9699 I wasn’t ready for it🤣 cracked me up
4:50 it was not a he? hehe! and yes he does hate it..I feel sorry for him..but it's only mushrooms right!?
Those bars are his coping mechanism 😆 I strongly recommend their back catalog. Good stuff in there!
I was a bit dumb this week and made a bunch of spaghetti bolognaise for dinner before watching this episode that I'd loaded with mushrooms. There were a couple of looks at my bowl with a "I've made a terrible mistake" 😂
Something that I feel was missing from other zombie apocalypse stories is that this story uses tension, not jump scares, to cause fear.
It’s not a clicker showing up behind you suddenly. It’s seeing the clicker walk past you…and does it hear you?!
And there were so many perfect setups for jumpscares too, like when Joel is reloading his gun, they could've had the clicker jump at Joel right when he looks around the corner (like in the teaser trailer for the game), or when the doctor is inspecting the mouth of a dead infected, they could've had the body come alive at the last second. But the show doesn't do that, yet the audience is still scared because it's thought of it possibly happening that's scary.
@@JiReyAnimation when Joel crunches on the glass they give you a beat! Glass *beat* Joel realizes he fucked up *beat* lunging clicker.
So true! I was on edge the whole episode. And the few jump scares they do use are strategically placed and not overdone.
18:13 Jay missed a perfect opportunity there: "Hello? Dominos? I'd love a large MUSHROOM pizza."
Urban decay is THE coolest setting. You get nature reclaiming a concrete jungle and it just looks pretty.
That's not what urban decay means, but OK.
Fun trivia here - A lot of the show was filmed in Calgary, Alberta! A lot of those landscape shots of the city are just the regular Calgary skyline with some added vines and ruin. The overpass they were on is a major road leading into downtown and they had it closed for a couple days for shooting. The owner of the watch shop in the first episode is a quite well known live theatre actor here in Calgary too! So definitely some green screen and added effects, but not as much as you may think!
Cool.
To answer your question Jay, clickers can't see, but they can feel people through echolocation - which is why it's important that they don't move around close to them and allow that noise to bounce off their bodies.
Director: Can you say BOMB in the most chilling way possible?
Actress: Yes
I love how the fungus probably sensed the fungus spread inside Tess so it tried to connect to it via her mouth. With human perception that's a disturbing kiss, from the fungus' perspective it's just going for the most optimal way to connect and grow.
"If they can't see, why are you ducking?", clickers click for echo-location. So if you're standing by them, they'll 'see' you by the sound bouncing off of you, like bats and dolphins.
Even though I played the game and knew how it would go down I was somehow even MORE terrified in the museum scene than when I played the game! The fact that Neil Druckman himself directed this episode makes it even more perfect. And from the cold open showing how cordyceps originated in Jakarta it proves the Bread Theory was right. Which makes rewatching the pilot even MORE tense because you see how lucky Joel, Tommy and Sarah were that they didn’t get infected from eating any flour based foods.
As for Tess’ ending, I think it was actually done better than the game. The scene of the mycelium (the fungal threads) going into her mouth was incredibly disgusting but the look in her eye when it happened showed that even though she was about to turn into one of them she managed used that iron will of hers to force herself through those last seconds before turning to burn them all. Stand and applaud for Anna Torv everyone!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Fun Fact: So Neil Druckman and Craig Mazin did more research on fungus and found out that if spores were as much of a threat as they are in the game that humanity would be completely wiped out. So they changed it to another scary fact about fungus which is that there are some species that grow so big that they can cover entire acres of rainforest in Brazil. So they added that instead of spores.
Yeah, they're using the mycelial network aspect of fungi, which makes it even more interesting (and scary). When Ellie mentioned spores in the episode my first thought was "If that was the case humanity would have been even more royally fucked than they already are". There would indeed be no one left, and the demise of humanity as a whole would go exponentionally faster the more infected humans there are. If you don't nip it in the bud you might as well give up because it's game over.
The largest (by mass) known underground mycelial network in the word is in Oregon, USA
There's a large fungus in the Upper Peninsula of MI that is at least 30 acres and is really old. When I used to live there, there was a festival celebrating it.
@@thenecrosanct4906 that's foreshadowing, Without knowing Ellie predicted a type of infected that appears later in the story. It's called "Bloater".
Personally, I felt some aspects of Tess's death fell a little bit short, but it's not enough to turn me away from the show
That mycologist in the Jakarta intro was like "I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. That's the only way to be sure."
Another confident & self-assured cold open - props to those actors! Have loved Anna Torv in Fringe, The Pacific, Mindhunter, The Newsreader and now TLOU - sad to lose her this early :(
You never know, we may get lucky. And have flashbacks with her this season or maybe even next. It might be unlikely. But it would be nice to see some of what happened in those twenty years.
the doctor at the beginning did an amazing job... the way she reacted when she realized it was too late... freaking master class acting
She has a really great Australian show on Netflix. You should check it out
Fringe is an absolute favorite. "Ass Warmers, Marvelous!"
God, for a moment I thought you meant that Anna Torv just died a few days ago. Don't scare me like that!
I completely understand how Adam feels about fungus related stuff. I feel your pain.
or just grow up
@@Thomas-nb7vz somebody doesn't know how phobias work
The cast and crew spent over a year filming in various locations in Alberta. The scene on the bridge and the museum were all filmed in Calgary, if I recall. The practical effects and attention to detail is just amazing. So hauntingly beautiful. Great reaction as always and I'm totally with Adam on all the gross fungi stuff; I gagged at the end LOL.
The capitol building in Edmonton was covered with vines one day and did not know why, probably because I did not play the game.
I’m at 16:13 & realizing Adam actually had to watch this 3 times 😅
Your efforts are appreciated, gentlemen
The Indonesia scene was epic! When a scientist tells a military man to bomb a city .. and he has pause!! lol
Just a bit of trivia. The population of Jakarta in 2003 was 8.7 million. Imagine having to wipe out that many people in one hit. Also the 24th September is two days before Joel's birthday. So in two days the infection had spread from Indonesian to USA.
I think when he says "If you feel sick exit immediately" he means if you have to puke run out of the examination room to do it. Don't take the mask off in there. That's how my brain made sense of it.
Not even joking here. When my wife and I were watching this episode I said to her, "That's what I forgot at the store. I wanted to get some mushrooms!" She's not a fan of mushrooms really but she's at least at them before. You are a mad man Adam!
I just read a great quote by the creator Craig Mazin (in regards to the kiss), "We were already talking about tendrils coming out and we were asking these philosophical questions, 'Why are infected people violent? If the point is the spread the fungus, why do they need to be violent?' We landed on that they don't. They're violent because we resist, but what if you don't? What does it look like if you just stand perfectly still and let them do this to you? Then we landed on this nightmare fuel."
I got so immersed in the part with the clickers I genuinely held my breath when they showed up and stayed as quiet as possible
So, here is the thing:
Ophiocordyceps is a tropical fungus.
And I live in Brazil, where there are around 22 cataloged species of Ophiocordyceps.
Oh, are you suspicious of mushrooms?
My dudes, I'm absolutely TERRIFIED of them.
Neil Druckmann did an amazing job directing this episode.
except the constant shaky cam, that shit is annoying
Yup
Had no idea, that’s wild. He should direct a film
Isn't Craig the director?
@@TheDarkstar3601 not of this ep, unfortunately
I like that they start every episode so far throwing new backstory into the dangers of this fungus, not even as a plot in the show, but as a real life threat
Except that it's not a real life threat. I suspend my disbelief, but their science is questionable.
I was totally Adam pacing my lounge during this "NOPE NOPE NOOOOOOOOPE!" haha
Just because Jay and Adam were like "why not dropping her off and go for Tommy!?" in the beginning. I felt like Joel and Tess are on different sides here. Tess sees Ellie and her bite mark for what it is, a miracle and a chance, she allows herself to hope. And there is Joel, who we know as someone who cut himself off from having any positive emotions because he is afraid of getting hurt again, just like it was with Sarah. Tess knows how to talk to Joel, so he will comply. Joel sees Ellies bite mark and still won't allow himself to hope and that's why he is like "she won't have a life", "it probably just takes longer for her to turn" and "we heard of miracle cures and shit like that, it's never true". Even when she got bit a second time and just shruks it off, Joel says "the first bite didn't but the second one will probably get her". He is so afraid of hurting again, that believing in the hope that Ellie presents is just impossible.
Well said
they changed the lore and made the cordyceps 10 times scarier. I didn't know that was possible... They took the source material and made it better. Just wow...
When I watched the episode and saw that bit with Tess I immediately thought "oh Adam is gonna be sick"
the set designers for this show are NUTS! like genuinely they deserve so much props for establishing a remarkable setting
I love this show but I have never said “that’s so gross” so many times during a TV show in my life 😂😂
Adam’s Last of Us: Woogie Wonderland and the Electric Woogaloo Part 2
18:40 Clickers can “see” in sort of a cone in front of them with their basic echolocation (the clicks). Ducking makes *absolutely sure* that if they turn their head real fast, since they’re so herky jerky anyway, they’re not going to see anything but the bench. Doesn’t matter much if you make noise behind it though, as shown in the scene
As a boy, Adam lived in a bubble refining his fear of mushrooms, zombies, knives, the Little Mermaid, and puppies
18:38 echolocation from the clicks it can’t “see” you when you’re standing still, but it can interpret your change in position via echolocation
I never played the game, but I am digging the show! I thought I was sick of zombie stories but so far the show has totally engrossed me. The acting is fantastic and I especially love the camera-work so far, it makes me so tense
This isn't a zombie story, it's actually a love story. It's a story about the good things love can make people do, and the awful things it can make people do. Most "Zombie" stories are not actually about zombies. George Romero zombie movies were social commentaries, Dawn of the Dead for example is about consumerism, hence why it takes place in a mall.
Idk why, but i could watch Adam having “the woogs” all day long 😂
If they can't see, why are you ducking? Because echo-location works by reflecting sound/'clicks' off the surfaces they hit to give the 'emitter' an image in the minds eye. If the sound cannot reflect off you, because you aren't in the line of sound, they CANNOT possibly 'see' you to find you.
Favorite quotes from this one…“Looks like I hate it..”
“we’re in a burned out ChiChi’s!”
“Oh there’s no way, oh god no”
“He died doin what he loved” “bellhoppin?”
“There’s a lot of mushrooms…”
“It’s so worse! It’s so worse!”
😂😂😂😂
Just saw the thumbnail title to this video, and as a father of two, I lift my drink to you. I'll never get too mold for a good pun.
I am sure by now you have seen it but the fungus spreads in flower and grain products. The people next door had biscuits and cookies while the main characters did not and were out of pancake mix.
This show has been fantastic so far.
Mycology is amazing.
The "antenna" looking stalks growing from infected people are flowering bodies that release spores. Mushrooms are the fungi's reproductive organs like flowers and the stalks are mushroom bodies. I never played the game, but I'm surprised there is no concern for airborne infection since spores are the way fungi propagate. It's probably explained in the game, but it does surprise me to see the everyone walking around without respirators (and exposed skin for that matter since spores can infiltrate that way too).
In the game, airborne contamination is an issue - you need a gas mask to get through many areas. They dropped it in the show for a few reasons, but I suspect mostly because they didn't want the cast faces covered all the time
@@JBWinter Thanks for the info. Spores are the way fungi reproduce so it was odd the show ignored that. It makes sense about the face masks. I'm sure Pedro doesn't want to do another show where his face is covered lol
Jay: "you've never watched any walking dead?!"
Adam: "Oh there's no way. No no no no no.." 🤣👏 thanks for being a Rockstar Adam!
To all mushroom fans like Jay, especially those who watch the series: cordyceps TEA exists and is legally available. Yes, you can put cordyceps in your organism TODAY! Fun!
The Jakarta intro was the moment you could really tell this was series made by the creator of Chernobyl...
I discovered a new area of disgust and fear for me. Apparently holes in the skin and fungus taking over the mouth and body makes me nauseous. I was basically Adam throughout the whole episode. I was enjoying the story but being disgusted by the creepy sickies. Other than that this was a great episode!
Ohhhhh it gets worse….
I actually dry heaved when that infected frenched her.
I love it xD
the highway scene was filmed on a real highway in canada, didnt even have green screens set up
You two have been my favorite reactors for YEARS now! So happy to follow this series with you two. AND you used my favorite intro for these ones :D That song is stuck in my head all day after hearing it :P
Also a lot of the sets in this episode I saw actually being filmed in our city on brides and such. They did an e excellent job
For any sci-fi book readers who for some reason want to bask in more fungal horror, allow me to recommend the _Revelation Space_ series of novels. As part of the worldbuilding/backstory, human nanotech gets corrupted by an alien computer virus, and proceeds to eat+grow in fungal fashion. Entire cities get a goopy makeover. Humans with nanotech-enabled brain implants get .. weird. Oh, and to still be able to use technology at all, humans have to revert to larger, clunkier machines ... so it's very steampunk, too.
watching the reaction to the first episode and adam going all gaggy on the fungi and else, all i could think about was tess' last scene and laugh maniacally. love u adam
That domino's bit by Jay @ 18:13 killed me 😂🤣
Sameeeee😂😂😂
The fact that the doctor's reaction at the start to 14 missing people is bomb a city of nearly 9 million, goes to show how truly screwd they were.
Every time I learn an Adam food quirk it blows my mind and I think there can't possibly be another thing to learn, and I am always wrong.
You know fungi represents 2 billion years of evolution on this planet. That means fungi has had 2 billion years to get better at everything it requires to not just exist but to thrive. If you ever feel like traveling down the rabbit hole of a fascinating subject check out fungi.
You know its bad when the civilian scientist finds out what is going on and basically goes straight to the nuclear option...
I can answer your question, the scene on the bridge was shot in Calgary, Canada. The bridge is real, the plants on the bridge are real, so are the background buildings. The editors use CGI to paint on top of all the buildings to make them look crumbled and old. Which is why when you freeze the frame, it looks like a painting.
For future reference, the plural of fungus is fungi, not funguses. Love you guys. Peaches for liiiiiiiife!
I see Adam had a hard time getting all that VENGEANCE out of his hair. Great reaction as always guys!
I think even though the clickers are blind, they were ducking behind objects because echolocation would make it easier for the clickers to spot them as a moving target out in the open, that is what I thought at least
My roommate was an extra last winter in Canmore, Alberta. She has no idea what the game is, but said she was in a large group of people. It sounded like a slaver situation, but I'm definitely looking out for what she described.
Bet Pedro really misses that Beskar now. lol
"You know you love the woogs..." too much 😂😭😂😭
8/8 delicious apocalypse chicken sandwiches
So funny 😂
Any time they mention there's no cure for a fungus, I immediately think of "tough acting tinactin"
4:58 - The Doctor pulls the fungi from the woman’s mouth. Jay: “No! She has spaghetti!”
Me: literally eating a mouthful of spaghetti when he said that. With mushrooms in it.
The "Hello Domino's." Whisper killed me.
Doordashes Adam an order of stuffed mushrooms
I love that you do this. So first I watch the episode then listen to the official podcast then your reaction so I get everything I need to process the emotional trauma of this series 😂
The scream I let out at the title on the thumbnail!
Everybody’s collective asses tightened during the museum scene. Lol
I wish i could see their reaction to the frog playing piano 😂:-)
I don’t know how Adam is going to get through this if he’s like this at ep 2 there’s 7 more episodes to go
Yeah, things get MUCH worse from here lol.
Speaking as someone who has used a crossbow I can assure you it isn't as quiet as they make it out, especially if you miss lol. If it hits something like wood it is loud af lol. Definitely quieter than a gun but not as silent as tv and movies make it.
I always enjoy yalls reactions especially for this amazing show!!! Can't wait for next week!!
And the Oscar for worst screen kiss goes to.... Tess, and a Human Mushroom, yeuch!
I nearly burst out in snort laughter when Jay said "we're in a burned out chi chi's" 🤣🤣
I grew up in Boston, and I really appreciated that the attention to detail that the show runners put into the geography of this episode. Fun fact, this episode for the most part takes place in the financial district of Boston by the Old State House
Maitake, aka Hen-of-the-woods mushrooms, would have been a better caption.
Also watching Adam get grossed out is hilarious. 🤣
Even in interviews, Pedro Pascal, has said that he was amazed and disturbed at how practical the clickers were.
Legitimately some of my fav reactions from you two. This series is great so far
Yup!.... That scene in that lab morgue...., yup, I'm with you. BURN IT ALL!!
ALL OF IT !!
Heck, if we bring in the Cinder King dragon from Vox Machina, we'd be so gooooooood!
Oh Jay you so rarely miss an opportunity! The call to Dominos was clearly "I'd love a large pizza - hold the mushrooms"
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I had a suspicion that they used the same technology that The Mandalorian used. The LED sets.
18:18 OMFG I almost cried laughing LOL you got a new subscriber because that was funny xD
18:38 cause in game you move quieter if you duck)
"I ordered mushroom pizza just to assert dominance." If I weren't already nursing a bit of a crush, that would have done the trick.
The Mushroom Kingdom used to be so wholesome.
Aww Adam, it's nice to see myself represented. I take my glasses off at certain parts lol
What I really appreciated about this episode was the scientist woman in the beginning. Once she saw what was going on and heard how the situation was after 30 hours, she made a very hard call. Especially when she asked to go home and be with her family.
Firstly, this is not a politician or military specialist that makes ‘life or death’ calls on a daily basis, so saying ‘we need to bomb the shit out of the whole city’ is a big freaking deal.
Secondly, she doesn’t even try to get herself out of the situation. She knows how bad it is and the possibility that she or her family might have been infected by the flour or grain ingested and that she wants to die with her family and not possibly contribute to the spread speaks volumes.
Great episode and we thank you both for your discomfort for the content you bring us.
love the reaction, you guys are hilarious! i don’t know if anyone’s explained it yet but i believe the reason that they were ducking behind objects while evading the clickers is because they use the clicking for echo location. not 100% sure if it was ever said in the game but i remember seeing it somewhere i think?
You hate having infected luck just wait for the abnormal ones😊
In every zombie game they were regular ones and abnormal which would you prefer😅
Solo! & The Happening! Really looking forward to upcoming fix it podcasts!! 👍🏻👍🏻
Imagine if this show was happening at the same time as Andor, but like the day after (How many butt diamonds would be created by the combined level of tension from both shows?) And the wild thing - we already know what's going to happen if you've played the game and it STILL is delivering!
(Also we better get Adam all the therapy after this)
So it started in the grain and flour in Indonesia....good thing Joel and Tommy didn't have waffles....or biscuits....or cake....or cookies in episode 1.
I'm not sure they used a green screen on the bridge at all. That skyline is mostly recognizable as the Calgary, Alberta skyline, as viewed from the bridge they were filming on. It's been edited though to insert some recognizable buildings from Boston. But many of the visible buildings are exactly what you would see from that bridge today if you went there, just without the decay.
It's true that Clickers are blind but they can still see you in a sense. If they shriek in your direction they can detect you with echolocation so ducking behind cover is still necessary.