I don't know what's up with all these 9 and 10 star reviews, but they just aren't accurate. The show is decent with great special effects, and follows the game fairly well, but there are some serious flaws. First of all it is a mix of good and bad actors and I mean that literally. After watching the first 3 episode it feels as if HBO spent most of thier casting budget on a few actors and then wrangled up a bunch D listers to fill in the rest. Secondly they took a critically acclaimed video game and changed most of the main characters so that the could check off thier equity boxes and add all of episode 3,that was total trash and did nothing for the story just add some tacky unnecessary wokness to check off a few more boxes. Once again it damages a already awsome story for no reason, if it isn't broken don't fix it. Last but not least the girl who plays Ellie is so far from the game character it's not even funny. When you combine the bad casting with her over acting it make her scenes almost unwatchable.