Except for the whole 20 year span of events that they could write anything they wanted for that's only covered by a couple of references in the game with regards to what Joel did between Sarah being killed and meeting Ellie.
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
Never played the game and know almost nothing about it expect the basic "creature survival" theme, but the first episode was pretty good and I'm someone who tends to not enjoy shows or movies based of video games as they're almost always subpar to outright shit.
Bella Ramsey has Ellie's attitude and mannerisms down pat. She just doesn't look like Ellie. Pascal not so much for Joel. The Sarah death scene was far more impactful in the game.
The look of the safe zone is very much spot on with the game and I'm liking a lot of the lifting of little bits of dialogue and details from the games too.
Very impressed so far though. Although I read that they've changed the spores problem to something else to avoid characters having to wear gas masks a lot and the lack of realism from the games that has spores confined to single rooms without them escaping when in reality they'd be everywhere.