The Last of Us - 1x1 - Episode 1 Reaction - When You're Lost in the Darkness 

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The acting in Sarah's death part was above and beyond and made it that much more emotionally hitting 😢👏🏻

Fun fact: The actress for Marlene is the same one who voice acted for said character in the game.

Fun fact: the fungus that the scientist was talking about in the intro is a real fungus that infects ants and other insects. It's called "Cordyceps" Its what infects people in this show. Basically, this is what would happen if Cordyceps made the leap to be able infect humans

Sarah's death hit harder this time because we spent time getting to know her. when you spend time with a character, their death hits so much harder

The 80’s music is from Bill and Frank. When I first watched it I thought it was about Tommy, but after seeing it again you can hear Ellie ask Joel who Bill and Frank are when she is looking at the code.

The song on the radio is "Never Let Me Down Again" by Depeche Mode. 1987.

HBO did it. It's too perfect. I teared up at that scene just like I did all those years ago

Did you all hear the theory of the fungus coming from spoiled flour? No pancakes, no cake, the guy was feeding the grandma biscuits, Joel is on the Atkins diet, Sarah didn't take the cookies, and so on and so on. Also Indonesia is a top grain producing country. Kind of neat

I blame the scientist from the beginning. I knew he shouldn't have opened the mummy's tomb.

I pray for Madison's hair. She's pulling and twirling more than usual w/this show. 😃

Sarah's death is so emotional. I've watched the show and this is like the 4th reaction I've watched. Still cry. Every time.

As someone else who plays with her hair when she's nervous, I just wanna hug Madison. 😅

I just love it when Madison goes to her stressful hair fiddling, you know whats coming after that. This episode is such a tear jerker. Think I have been crying all day watching reaction vids to this. Great react as always guys! This is really one of the best adaptations I have ever seen of a video game to TV series :)

Pedro Pascals performance is just something different, even though we might know what's going to happend, he can still convey emotions and make us choke up when Sarah gets shot. The anguish, the desperation, man they really struck gold when they got him on board

Love the reaction guys :) Since everyone seems to wonder about the low flying planes...My idea is that since traffic control and the airports might allready fallen or closed and planes might have circled the airports allready for a longer time and the fuel is running out they go to the nearest safer spot to land and that would be highways. Street and building lights provide navigation helps.

Madison + nervous/ stressed = Madison playing with hair again = awesome reaction..

Sarah’s death always used to hit me in the feels. Recently becoming a father it hits even harder. Can’t watch this scene without tearing up

In the game, if you linger you see people being lined up and tested. You see one euthanized and one tries to run and is shot. If YOU try to get too close to a soldier, YOU get shot. I think they did a good job giving you these story beats (Testing/Euthanasia) with the kid and (FEDRA no tolerance for disobedience and interference/insurrection) with the hangings

It breaks my heart when she said...at 30:47.." is that a '80's song????." LOL! I just can't... I'm so old!!!! But I Love these Two!!!

'80s teen here.. The song at the end was early Depeche Mode. Iconic '80s band.

22:10 😂😂😂 Cristian: Can you imagine walking that? Maddison: (trying to imagine it) …no •_•

The song played at the end of the episode is Depeche Mode's "Never Let Me Down Again," which was released in 1987.

Airplanes were looking for a place to land, since they were probably denied landing access due to the quarantine process. They were probably threatened with being shot down if they tried to land at the airport.

Tommy sends the radio signals, that's why he went to see the doctor to make sure that they didn't miss a song playing. So, Tommy is in trouble.

At first, I thought HBO wrong casted Ellie. But Bella Ramsey totally nailed it. The attitude, the rebel behaviour and everything I wish to see as Ellie. Long live Lady Mormont!

the scientist in the beginning with the glasses is played by the actor who played Marcus Volturi from twilight. He's also Sam in the van helsing tv series and he has a minor speaking role in the chronicles of riddick.

Plot change. Spores are not a way the infection spreads here. Its the tendrals left behind by the infected that will lead to further spreads if near them. Still basically direct contant after death instead of airborne like the games

Glad to see y’all react to this. Best video game adaptation I’ve seen so far. Can’t wait to explore the rest of the series.

the Girl that played Sarah is Thandiwe Newton's (Maeve from Westworld) daughter

17:38 the producers released a statement saying that there will be no spores in this series

So awesome that you guys are doing this show! Found you through HOTD and back for LOU. Madison is all heart!

Quite chilling to know the ant fungus, Cordyceps, is a real thing, isn't it! :D

The ending with the song is linked to the book Ellie was reading out earlier and it's call sign for the song playing is "Danger"

Love this channel! Always get a kick out of watching your reactions to a sad scene. Madison cries at everything sad and Christian just stares like "hmm interesting" lmao

Ahhhhh, you're a hair twiddler like me :D The reference to Jakarta is to wheat products in general and ties in with several other references to 'biscuits', 'cookies', 'pancakes' and 'cake' made in this episode... none of which were eaten by Joel, Tommy or Sarah. I think those aircraft are maybe taking off. Spores, one of the major changes from the game. In the game, when an infected reaches the final stage they release spores when they die and these float in the air to infect others, making the carrying of gas masks required. For live action filming, gas masks on your actors aren't ideal so spores were replaced with the fungal tendrils coming from the mouth of an infected 'runner' (first stage infected). Fun fact; Joel's watch was broken again during the fall when Sahara died, so every time he looks at it he is reminded of the exact time he lost her. The story of Ellie and Riley begins in the comic 'The Last of Us: American Dreams' and in the DLC 'Left Behind' which will be gone through in a later episode. From the moment she did "6,7,8, Fuck You" Bella became Ellie for me lol. Yeah, Joel seems to have PTSD and had 'an incident'. If you notice when Ellie had that peice of paper in her hand with the radio codes on it, at the top it said B/F... think back to the game who B/F might be :) See you next time.

The kid they killed at the beginning was also immune to it that's how he survived, but they destroyed him just because he showed up as infected. That's why the fireflies tell her not to tell anyone because they will kill her.

Ugh, such a good first episode & amazing reaction too❤️ Can’t wait for episode 2👀

I've been waiting for your reactions! Can't wait to see more! ❤

Fun fact: The actress who plays Sarah is the daughter of an actress Thandie Newton (WestWorld, Mission Impossible, Norbit)

Nico Parker totally should have gotten an Emmy nomination over Melanie Lynskey! Even knowing what was to come I was bawling like a baby watching those two.

it is confirmed that will be no spores in the show, something about they not wanting the fungus to spread too fast i think

*spoilers ahead (kinda)* The gap between Texas and Boston is loosely explained in the 1st game. After Sarah, Tommy and Joel were basically directionless survivors, traveling, raiding, and doing horrible things in the process. When they settled in Boston (one of the more intact quarantine zones), Tommy eventually joined up with the Fireflies for a bit, while Joel settled into smuggling/dealing in Boston, earning a name as the meanest, scariest mfer on the block.

I’ve never played the game or seen any spoilers about the story but obviously I’ve always heard the hype about the game and this first episode for me was incredible and hooked me in immediately 🔥I’m a big fan of apocalypse shows especially growing up following the walking dead

The song at the end is Depeche Mode! Total 80's!! #danger

Amazing Episode, Amazing Reaction - Joel & Sarah's scene is so heartbreaking - both in-game and now in live action - overall, a phenomenal episode!

Oatmeal Raisin are the best cookies.

The dude talking about the fongus, is the one from Spartacus, Dominus (Batiatus i think was his name on the show)

Just found you guys and enjoying what I found. Good stuff!! Was wondering though, after checking you movie reactions playlist, I don't see much "classic great" horror (IE The Shining, The Thing, etc...) or fantastic horror series like "The Haunting of Hill House". Did I just overlook them, with my old eyes it's possible... highly likely :D... or do you guys not do that stuff. Thanks and keep up the good stuff!

Thanks, Madison! Thanks, Christian! 🧟‍♀ #MACReact #TheLastOfUs #TLOU #TheLastOfUsHBO

Will def be checking out your reactions from now on. Never played the video game but this first episode was terrifying and hits a little too close since C19

8:43 she always play with her hair when she’s stressed out lmao same😂

I don't know if you missed it or not but gonna say it anyway. The spread of the disease supposedly happened in a flour mill where the fungus had perfect substrate to grow on. Not all fungus are mushrooms but all mushrooms are fungs. Also, the world has gotten warmer in the past decades which is known to all but the interesting thing is human body temperature across the globe has also decreased by minute degrees. The type of fungus that is parastic is generally like ascomycetes, or deuteromycetes and most of them affect plants. It's highly unlikely that the "cordyceps" Shown here is a Basidomycetes aka mushroom

he was 36 when that happened 20 years later... dude is 56 almost 60 and he killed that young dude wih his hands i dont know whether is impressive or insulting to belive it

The game was 10 years ago, they shifted it to make it hit a little different

Love you reaction guys. Keep in mind tho, the creators have decided to eliminate contamination through spores. Bites are the way on being infected in the series.

Sarah's death in the HBO show is even more visceral 💔😭

A thing that I don't know if you guys catch but in the scene with the infected on the wall they aren't spores coming out and the reason is they won't be using they because if they uses them all of the people already be infected like there's nothing that can contains the spores

Y'all are around San Marcos?! I'm right outside of Austin. ❤️

Game sarah dying was a crazy cinematic that was over quite fast and by the time jump it never really felt to important except in a few key moments... Weras show sarah had more screen time made it more real..and made it so we always remembered her going forward..in terms of joels being. Few scenes later make sarah even more important... ❤ Yhey did her good.. the actress was on point

Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again, 1987

They said spores won't be part of the TV plot

Maddie always gives the best reaction

12:12 To avoid radar and being shot down.

It's in the flour all baked flower goods they never eat the cake the pancakes the cookies.

People going into the city had nothing to do with getting infected actually, it was grain/flour. The biscuits the Adlers ate. The pancakes Sarah didn't get to make, the icky raisin cookies she didn't eat. The cake Joel didn't pick up. It was sheer luck Joel, Tommy, and Sarah weren't infected. There are no spores in the tv series, it was a logistical nightmare and it would be impossible for people to not get infected that way barring wearing a gasmask 24/7 so the showrunners chose to not go that way. Trouble means Bill and Frank are in trouble.

9:50 she screamed like in 2 different tones lol

9:43 "Shoot her! Do we have a gun?" LOL that's what I expected too with this being in Texas

Pretty sure they said there isn’t going to be spores which is gonna be a bit weird

Gabriel Luna and Pedro Pascal sound JUST like them in the game

I love this show

9:41 im sorry but that was an extremely funny and proper american response

Are there uncut reactions?

They moved the time period that the story takes place from 2013 (Game Release) to 2003 (TV Show) The calendars in the game still show 2013, lol.

I know I’m late haven’t watched as much new tv shows or reactions lately… but I was sad with what happened to Sarah. She was like Chrissy from Stranger things a very likable character who gets killed off in the first episode.

Random thought but pretty sure yall are vampires .. great reaction!

I like your channel. It’s a subscription for me.

Fr the beginning had my by my throat I was like bruh I know of these fungus and your telling me that just a rise in temperature across the planet could make this somewhat possible... GAAAWWDAYYUUM. Global warming really be a warning

They ditched the Robert story because in the game they use it to get you used to the controls. Shooting, melee, crouching, sneaking, throwing things to distract etc before taking on the infected but with this adaptation their is no need for that so they can get straight into the main story. They added it to introduce Tess and be faithful to gamers by at least showing the issues Joel and Tess have with Robert, they just skip the conflict you have in the game.

Get ready for the next episode tomorrow 😱😱💀

Y'all forgot Niel Druckman the creator of the game is also a BIG part of this....forgot his credit it's HIS MASTERPEICE....otherwise I'm BEYOND EXCITED.....found you guys with HOTD and CANT WAIT to relive this journey with you guys

Play the PS5 version, it looks amazing!

Girl, while you're watching put some leave in moisturizer on your fingers because your ends are gonna die with this show. xD

Oatmeal raisin cookies are 100000 times better than chocolate chip

MAC Please keep in mind that spoilers go both ways. Not everyone is a gamer.

Why does it take so many years for joel to decide to go find tommy? Just because he recently stopped writing? U would think they’d want to be together sooner

Does everyone live in Austin lol

haha, joel is the opposite of a hero, especially in the end. thats the point, we're just sympathetic becuase we play as him in the game, didnt work as well for people in 2 for abby despite her being the hero and just in what she does.

To be honest.. Pedro Pascal took 2023 already

I'm glad that i didn't play this game..so there is no spoilers for me 💓

I cried like a toddler, even though I saw the scene in the game x times and knew what was happening. My conclusion after this episode: I've never been so captivated by the start of a series based on a story I know inside and out. And it is Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again (1987) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-snILjFUkk_A.html

🤟Tommeeee 🤟 🤣🤣🤣

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Can you guys please watch the movie "Everything, Everywhere, All at Once", I think you guys would love it

Is there not a single reaction where no one has played the game? I want complete shock like we experienced. Still amazing reaction tho 😢

16:11 Abby 🥰🥰

I blame president bush for the apocalypse.

I'm thinking that the little kid in red shirt and green shoes might have also have been immune, the lady asks how long had they had the wound, seeing as the child probably has been walking for hours and even days on end, wound still being kinda fresh, they just killed them since they saw they were in the red without a second thought even when the child wasn't showing obvious signs. That just my speculation, cause even if Ellie has the cure, Military would not want to lose their power over people and like I said when I played the game, humans would not stop doing what they were doing in the game, they would get a whole lot worse.

They didn't use spores in the show compared to the game. Presumably because everyone would be wearing masks all the time, and spores are far worse so everyone would really be gone.

Now you know how manga readers feel when watching an anime adaptation