I haven't played the video game and don't know much about the background of this show. I'm going in as an average viewer and trying to be objective. Episode one starts out pretty strong with a fungus that has infected some people. We don't know who it is going to infect and we don't know why. It isn't relayed to the viewer. There's some action with these new zombies and some gory scenes that remind me of the waking dead when it was good. Then it kind of goes downhill from there. It's long and drawn out. The characters especially Ellie, the young girl, are pretty unlikeable. She's a smart ass with a foul mouth. In fact there's lots of unnecessary cussing that's out of place and takes away from the story. It's like it was added in just as annoying filler. The rest of the episode is flat boring. An hour and a half of no answers and no real plot and not much action after the first 20 mins. I learned my lesson from TWD, don't hang on for too long or you'll regret the time you wasted on a pointless series.