I also watched the first episode and really enjoyed it.
I have played the game and what I've seen so far is unbelievably spot on. Be interesting to see where the story goes but the world they've created is perfect.
I don't think this will get the same reaction as TLOU, as that had a fairly fixed story which the TV show retold. Fallout, the game, is far more loose and the TV show is telling a different story, just in the same world.
I imagine the reaction will be the middle aged white guys complaining that the protagonists are a girl, a black guy and an undead ghoul