I would rate Season 1 a 7.5 out of 10 overall.

It's a pretty good adaptation of the game, but a lot of the emotional moments and tension fall short compared to the game.

The background and supporting characters are well-developed, but the main character's emotions are not fleshed out enough.

As I mentioned earlier, the show spends too much time on the background and supporting characters, and there's simply not enough time to develop the main character, who is supposed to be the focus of the show.

Unless you have a lot of episodes to work with, it's hard to understand how even new characters can be given a full episode.

The fight scenes are well-done, but they miss out on many of the life-or-death moments from the game.

Don't think that these moments aren't important, because cutting them out takes away from the story's emphasis on relationships.

Originally, these moments were meant to deepen the characters' relationships, and the feeling of overcoming obstacles was lost when the show became more of a road trip.

I can't accept the excuse that these moments were cut for the sake of realism, because in a zombie apocalypse, it's not realistic to travel miles without encountering any zombies.

Making the third episode end with a happy-ever-after is also unrealistic.

The most obvious reason for these cuts is budget constraints and the limited number of episodes in the season.

As a result, the show had to cut so much that it focused its budget on only a few scenes, like the teeth-chattering and bloater scenes.

The new hive mind setting was also only given one episode, which is disappointing.

It feels like the show jumps around too much to focus on the important events, cutting out too much in between.