The Last of Us - Season 1 Eps 2 Reaction 

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!

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.

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" 😂

When Jay started singing “looks like I hate it…” I lost it!! 😂😂I’ve never laughed so hard 😂

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?!

Urban decay is THE coolest setting. You get nature reclaiming a concrete jungle and it just looks pretty.

18:13 Jay missed a perfect opportunity there: "Hello? Dominos? I'd love a large MUSHROOM pizza."

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.

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.

Director: Can you say BOMB in the most chilling way possible? Actress: Yes

I’m at 16:13 & realizing Adam actually had to watch this 3 times 😅 Your efforts are appreciated, gentlemen

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 :(

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.

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

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

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."

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.

The Indonesia scene was epic! When a scientist tells a military man to bomb a city .. and he has pause!! lol

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...

Neil Druckmann did an amazing job directing this episode.

I love this show but I have never said “that’s so gross” so many times during a TV show in my life 😂😂

the set designers for this show are NUTS! like genuinely they deserve so much props for establishing a remarkable setting

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.

Adam’s Last of Us: Woogie Wonderland and the Electric Woogaloo Part 2

This show has been fantastic so far.

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."

When I watched the episode and saw that bit with Tess I immediately thought "oh Adam is gonna be sick"

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 was totally Adam pacing my lounge during this "NOPE NOPE NOOOOOOOOPE!" haha

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.

"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.

As a boy, Adam lived in a bubble refining his fear of mushrooms, zombies, knives, the Little Mermaid, and puppies

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

Idk why, but i could watch Adam having “the woogs” all day long 😂

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.

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!

the highway scene was filmed on a real highway in canada, didnt even have green screens set up

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!

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 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!

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.

The Jakarta intro was the moment you could really tell this was series made by the creator of Chernobyl...

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

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.

That domino's bit by Jay @ 18:13 killed me 😂🤣

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.

For future reference, the plural of fungus is fungi, not funguses. Love you guys. Peaches for liiiiiiiife!

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

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.

The scream I let out at the title on the thumbnail!

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).

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 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

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 see Adam had a hard time getting all that VENGEANCE out of his hair. Great reaction as always guys!

I completely understand how Adam feels about fungus related stuff. I feel your pain.

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.

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

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

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!

I wish i could see their reaction to the frog playing piano 😂:-)

The Mushroom Kingdom used to be so wholesome.

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.

Solo! & The Happening! Really looking forward to upcoming fix it podcasts!! 👍🏻👍🏻

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

Doordashes Adam an order of stuffed mushrooms

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.

I had a suspicion that they used the same technology that The Mandalorian used. The LED sets.

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.

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.

This is one of the most stressful shows I've ever seen. Woof.

Any time they mention there's no cure for a fungus, I immediately think of "tough acting tinactin"

Watching this show with a fungal infection is…interesting, to say the least 😬

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 😂

I always enjoy yalls reactions especially for this amazing show!!! Can't wait for next week!!

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.

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.

I am going to fight for the cause and eat pizza with mushrooms

8:07 is the best part of the video, best joke

"You know you love the woogs..." too much 😂😭😂😭 8/8 delicious apocalypse chicken sandwiches So funny 😂

Bet Pedro really misses that Beskar now. lol

The "Hello Domino's." Whisper killed me.

18:18 OMFG I almost cried laughing LOL you got a new subscriber because that was funny xD

I nearly burst out in snort laughter when Jay said "we're in a burned out chi chi's" 🤣🤣

Oh Jay you so rarely miss an opportunity! The call to Dominos was clearly "I'd love a large pizza - hold the mushrooms" 😁

FINALLY! Been waiting all day for your reaction

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!

Aww Adam, it's nice to see myself represented. I take my glasses off at certain parts lol

I wanted to start adding mushrooms into my diet this year… then this show came out and made my hesitancy turn to refusal forever 😅😳

If this show doesnt win many awards for set design and consuming with those clickers then I don't even know

Oh wow thanks for working overtime to get this to us!! Ur sucks that the funguys won the first round. You came out on top as usual!! Thanks again

18:38 cause in game you move quieter if you duck)

It is confirmed. Adam does NOT like the mushroom gang

The Horizon Zero Dawn comparisons... I thought of them, too after watching this episode. If it can be as great as this is, I can't wait for that show.

And the Oscar for worst screen kiss goes to.... Tess, and a Human Mushroom, yeuch!