The tone: Two hundred years have passed since an alternate version of Earth was destroyed in pieces: most of the world is an irradiated wasteland filled with demons and monsters of various kinds. The only real humans left are the Brotherhood of Steel, a techno-military cult dedicated to preserving humanity's lingering artifacts, and the Vault Dwellers, sheltered, two-shoe types who lived throughout the centuries in the Vaults. hermetically sealed until the end. The day has come to repopulate the planet with its utopian community.
But when Vault 33 is attacked by raiders and Vault Overseer Hank (Kyle MacLachlan) is kidnapped, his daughter Lucy (Ella Purnell) ventures into the wasteland to retrieve him, with nothing but her wits, her ideals and her trusty Pip. -Boy. Along the way, she will cross paths with a rebel Brotherhood soldier (Aaron Moten's Maximus) and a Ghoul bounty hunter (Walton Goggins) with a pre-war past, as the three pursue a secret that could change the face of the Brotherhood. . new world forever.
Fall Out (the) boys: Video game adaptations on television used to be a losing proposition: now, in the era of HBO The last of us and (to a lesser extent) Paramount+ aura, the prospect is not so terrifying. It's also fortunate, since Amazon MGM Studios seems to have taken the perfect direction for a series with a world as solid as Fall's: Stay true to the tone and iconography of the original games, give it a big budget, and create a story that uses its Nuclear Age architectural imagery to reflect on humanity's unique ability to destroy itself.
To that end, it makes sense that this adaptation would be executive produced by Western world creators Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan. Like the previous show, this one also plunges humanity into a techno-apocalypse, with different factions fighting over whether humanity deserves to live with its terrifying mistakes. (We even have an unstoppable black-hatted cowboy in Goggins' Ghoul, whose acidic quills purr with a pathos that becomes clearer the more we get to know him.)
Not your vault: However, in keeping with the games' fun tone, Amazon smartly sharpens its Boys-level knives, generating plenty of over-the-top gore and dark jokes along the way. There are jokes about bottle caps as currency, The Ghoul's gun cutting deliciously huge holes in his targets, and enough foot-related mutilations to haunt Quentin Tarantino's worst nightmares.
Purnell's Lucy is a straight woman perfect for this cynical world she's entered, an idealistic hall monitor who spends the first half of the season horrified that no one follows the golden rule anymore. (Her journey to come to terms with that chaos and forge a new path for herself makes her more than compelling.)
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