With that, HBO’s adaptation presents a tragic symmetry between Abby and Ellie early on in a way the video game decidedly did ...

DEAR ABBY: I’m 17 and will be turning 18 in six months. I can’t wait to move out. My mother and I have a hard relationship. We argue every day. She’s an addict, and it’s sometimes ...

So it felt appropriate for those reasons to move that up and give that context right ... to be implying that TV viewers will get the rundown for Abby's backstory far earlier than gamers did ...