"The west doesn't get much wilder than in Fallout. The show takes place 200 years into a post-nuclear apocalypse where most humans are scratching out an existence in a stricken wasteland California of sand dunes, outlaw gangs and mutated monsters. Resources are scarce. Life is cruel. Death is a constant. It should be terrifying. Instead, it's often hilarious. A wicked sense of humour elevated the first season of Prime Video's well-received, no-expense-spared adaptation of the long-running video game franchise."
"If the setting was outlandish and the violence often OTT, the core characters played things admirably straight. Lucy (Ella Purnell) was a wide-eyed ingenue who had experienced a literally sheltered upbringing in an underground vault. Witnessing her golly-gosh, can-do attitude collide with the lawless chaos of the surface as she searched for her kidnapped father Hank (Kyle MacLachlan) was a hoot."
Fallout is set 200 years after a nuclear apocalypse in a wasteland California of sand dunes, outlaw gangs and mutated monsters. Resources are scarce, life is cruel and death is constant, but the tone blends brutal stakes with wicked dark humour. The first season balanced over-the-top violence and outlandish setting with characters who played the story straight. Lucy is a sheltered vault survivor thrust onto the chaotic surface searching for her kidnapped father. Maximus is a naive orphan raised in a militaristic cult who inherits a mechanical battle suit. Walton Goggins's Ghoul is a world-weary, CGI-altered gunslinger with pre-war flashbacks as movie star Cooper Howard.
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