Fallout

Fallout (2024) the TV series was created by Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet. It is an adaptation of the successful Fallout RPG series. Wagner was a producer for Portlandia, Silicon Valley and the US adaptation of the Office.

I haven’t played the Fallout games but I am aware of their impact and I own a few in my pile of virtual shame. The TV series works really well for someone who has no knowledge of the game.

The series is set in a retro-futuristic fantasy setting of life after nuclear wars. It’s an interesting universe.

There are vault dwellers who live in vaults beneath the surface. On the surface are ghouls who have survived radiation poisoning. There are also other humans, some of who join groups like the Brotherhood of Steel who fight in powered armour.

The story concerns Lucy who is a vault dweller. After a raid from the surface her father is kidnapped and she leaves the vault for the surface to rescue him. There she meets ‘the ghoul’ who is an old bounty hunter. She also meets Max who is a squire in the Brotherhood.

The Ghoul, portrayed by Walton Goggins is very well done. The story also flips between the era shortly before the war where the ghoul was a famous actor and the post apocalypse.

The TV series for Fallout is remarkably well done. It’ll be great to see the second series.