Thank God amazon is dropping all of the episodes at once.
TV Discussion: Fallout series based on video game coming to Amazon Prime f/ Walton Goggins Update: SEASON 2 COMING!
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Guess when there's a shootout characters won't be using V.A.T.S Targeting i assume..If you love Bitching and Complaining about series adapted from video games.
They already giving you a heads up.
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Will Fallout Season 2 Be An Anthology Like The Games? Showrunners Give Intriguing Response
Season 1 made a critical decision to create an original story and characters rather than adapting one of the existing video game stories. Fallout season 2 has not yet been confirmed.
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April 3, 2024
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Season 1 made a critical decision to create an original story and characters rather than adapting one of the existing video game stories. Fallout season 2 has not yet been confirmed.
BY HANNAH GEARAN
April 3, 2024
Will Fallout Season 2 Be An Anthology Like The Games? Showrunners Give Intriguing Response
"It's a bit of a minefield."
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‘Fallout’ Series Gets New Release Date on Prime Video
Prime Video has announced that the 'Fallout' series adaptation will premiere on April 10 at 6 p.m. PT.
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'Fallout' is an addictive post-apocalyptic adventure
Ella Purnell and Walton Goggins star in 'Fallout,' Prime Video's addictive adaptation of the post-apocalyptic video game franchise. Read our review.
Fallout review: An addictive post-apocalyptic adventure
Ella Purnell and Walton Goggins star in Prime Video's adaptation of the blockbuster video game franchise.By
Kristen Baldwin
Published on April 10, 2024 05:15PM EDT
In the fourth episode of Fallout, the Ghoul (Walton Goggins) drags his prisoner, Lucy (Ella Purnell), across the sun-bleached, sandy wasteland of post-nuclear-apocalypse California. A zombie-esque former human mutated by radiation, the Ghoul has spent the last 219 years cementing his reputation as the irradiated desert’s deadliest bounty hunter. Lucy is new to the surface world, having been raised in the orderly safety of Vault 33, one of dozens of subterranean communities established by citizens who fled underground before the war began. Self-interest and violence are anathema to her; she even tries to appeal to her captor by reminding him of the Golden Rule. It doesn't work.
While the Ghoul is momentarily distracted, Lucy runs. A struggle ensues, during which Lucy bites off his right index finger and he, in turn, saws hers off with a machete. Holding the bloody digit aloft, the Ghoul gives Lucy a look that almost connotes respect. “Now that right there,” he says, “is the closest thing we’ve had to an honest exchange so far.”
Consider this the guiding principle of Fallout: If a nihilist and an optimist can just learn to communicate, there could be hope for humanity yet. Adapted from the blockbuster video game franchise by Westworld’s Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan, this vast apocalyptic adventure interrogates the concept of human survival through a lens of morality and justice. The eight-episode season exists in a vivid and captivating universe that will be familiar to gamers — though knowledge of the franchise isn't required to enjoy its darkly comic dystopian pleasures.
Ella Purnell in 'Fallout'.
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Fallout begins with “The End.” Quite literally: The words flash on screen, all caps, as our welcome. It’s the year 2077 in (alternate reality) America, a place where the culture of the 1950s, with all its Western-loving, “pinko”-hating patriotic gusto, never died. Actor and well-known movie cowboy Cooper Howard (Goggins) is performing at a child’s birthday party in Los Angeles when the bomb drops — the culmination of a 10-year global resource war — decimating much of the life on Earth. Flash forward two centuries. An emergency drives Lucy MacLean, the aforementioned apple-cheeked resident of Vault 33, to the surface seeking answers. There, she must contend with unlimited dangers: Think the Ghoul, giant meat-eating cockroaches, a massive pink lizard-like abomination known as a Gulper, among other horrors.
The Fallout universe, both before and after the Great War, is a place where society is deeply divided — and every group thinks the other is a “cult.” (Sound familiar?) Before the bombs dropped, those who supported America’s fight abroad — and companies like Vault-Tec, which profited from it — were labeled warmongers and evil capitalists. Everyone else? Communists. In the post-war world, Vault dwellers like Lucy are viewed by those on the surface as brainwashed automatons at best, cowards at worst. The wasteland itself is a battleground for dueling factions: There’s the Brotherhood of Steel, a brutal military force that uses “knights” in robotic Power Armor suits to confiscate any and all technology. Others follow Moldaver (the always-welcome Sarita Choudhury), a “madwoman” who presides over a compound of armed acolytes deep in the desert. Both organizations believe they alone know how to save the human race from itself, and both will shed as much blood as it takes to achieve their goals.
Walton Goggins in 'Fallout'.
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Into this morass of cruelty and savagery comes Lucy MacLean, the only person in a thousand-mile radius who believes mankind should work for the greater good. Though the Ghoul taunts Lucy that the wasteland will make her a killer, Fallout allows her a hero’s journey that intertwines the loss of her innocence with the effect of her altruism on others. Specifically, Maximus (Aaron Moten), an orphan-turned-squire in the Brotherhood of Man who’s been beaten down so much by life — and his Brotherhood peers — he views everyone as an opponent to be defeated. As their incongruously sweet romance unfolds, Lucy introduces Maximus to the power of community: “In the vaults, we recognize that we all need each other.”
The mythology is dense. As a non-gamer, I utilized a lot of pre-existing Fallout wikis and explainers created by the online community to fill in some blanks. (What is a Pip-Boy? Why are bottle caps used as currency?) And we haven’t even gotten to Wilzig (Michael Emerson), who works in the behavioral engineering department of a military-run government organization called the Enclave, or Lucy’s brother, Norm (Moisés Arias), who uncovers some ominous secrets about the Vault system after she’s gone.
Despite its Westworld pedigree (Nolan also directs the first three episodes), Fallout has a sense of humor about its characters and the dire situations they endure. Showrunners Geneva Robertson-Dworet (Captain Marvel) and Graham Wagner (Silicon Valley) foster more of a Watchmen vibe, grounding their alternate reality in fundamental truths and juxtaposing the more cartoonish elements with weighty themes, including xenophobia, eugenics, and the corrupting influence of capitalism on governance. (One plea, however, to producers of all prestige apocalypse dramas: It's time to bury "slo-mo battle scenes set to Nat King Cole and Glenn Miller" in a TV time capsule for a century — at least.) Lucy is the audience’s surrogate, but the series doesn’t champion any one ideology. Even the “good guys” have their prejudices. “These people, am I right?” says a Vault overseer, venting about surface dwellers. “If you want to get elected you have to ‘respect their traditions’ and ‘tolerate them’ and ‘not call them surfies.’ It’s awful.”
Aaron Moten in 'Fallout'.
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He’s played by Chris Parnell, one of many wonderful actors — Dallas Goldtooth! Dale Dickey! Matt Berry! — who pop up in Fallout’s expansive ensemble. Goggins, who gave three Emmy-worthy performances last summer (I’m a Virgo, Justified: City Primeval, The Righteous Gemstones), lords over Fallout as the Ghoul, a merciless mercenary with a whiskey-smooth drawl and a devilish grin. Not even layers of burn-scar prosthetics can dampen the actor’s immutable charm. Purnell leavens her character’s perky patriotism with a necessary dash of self-awareness; Lucy may be naïve about the (sometimes hostile) strangers she encounters, but she never begrudges them their humanity. Moten makes Maximus a wonderfully endearing doofus, and Arias brings a mournful cynicism to Norm, who seems to be the only resident of Vault 33 who was born without an inherent sense of purpose.
Usually, the complaint about puzzle box shows is that they withhold too many answers from the viewer. Fallout, by contrast, downloads almost too much information in the season 1 finale. Prime Video, which has no consistent release pattern for its originals, chose to drop all eight episodes of Fallout at once. It's too bad; the show would have benefitted from a weekly rollout, giving fans more time to rewatch, digest, dissect, and debate its intricate story threads. But that's just my opinion. There is, after all, no one right way to handle the end of the world. Grade: B+
All eight episodes of Fallout are streaming now on Prime Video.
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so we got an out law barbque king Ellstin helped a nuclear boyd crowder out his grave....was i the only one that noticed that... 
im on ep-3 so far aint bad....
im on ep-3 so far aint bad....
The casting on this is insane!
started my weekend an hour ago, gon be on this tonight .....
its OUTSTANDING so far
How Amazon's 'Fallout' brought the post-apocalyptic video games to TV
Jonathan Nolan, Walton Goggins, Ella Purnell, and more break down Amazon Prime Video's new 'Fallout' TV series.
How Amazon's Fallout brought the post-apocalyptic video games to TV
“I certainly didn't anticipate the tactile quality of this show," star Walton Goggins says. Read more about the franchise's long journey to the small screen.By
Christian Holub
Published on April 11, 2024 10:58AM EDT
The world of Fallout is closer than it appears. That’s always been true of the long-running series of post-apocalyptic video games, which mix images of Eisenhower-era Americana with futuristic power armor and radioactive monsters. But back in January 2023, it also described Amazon Studios’ new TV adaptation of the franchise. On those winter days, if you had walked just behind the walls of Steiner Studios at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, you would’ve been greeted with the sight of the ramshackle buildings of Filly, the rare outpost of civilization in the irradiated wasteland of Fallout.
Walk a little further, into the studio, and you would’ve found yourself in an eerie recreation of a Vault, the high-tech bomb shelters where some privileged humans of the Fallout world survive the apocalypse in relative comfort while others have to make the best of things out in the wasteland. Walking even further into the studio, you would’ve eventually found yourself in a room full of sand.
For Fallout character Lucy (Ella Purnell), this dirty run-down locale where nature has overgrown the remnants of human civilization is a far cry from the comfort of the Vault that she grew up in. But for viewers, this room (a replica of a real-life location in the Namibian ghost town of Kolmanskop) also represents a taste of the real world within this post-apocalyptic spectacle.
“I certainly didn't anticipate the tactile quality of this show,” Walton Goggins, who stars on Fallout as an irradiated gunslinger called The Ghoul, tells Entertainment Weekly a year after filming the scene. “When I read it for the first time, I was like, ‘Wow, this is really great, but how the f--- were we going to pull this off?’ But it became evident pretty early on that their intention was to film it in this very specific way, where they wanted to use practical locations and things in the world whenever possible.”
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Jonathan Nolan, who directed the first three episodes of Fallout and created the show alongside his wife and creative partner Lisa Joy, had first considered using Kolmanskop as a locale for Westworld before deciding it didn’t look enough like the old West. But when it came time to start planning Fallout, Nolan’s mind immediately went to Kolmanskop.
“It doesn't feel Western. What it does feel like is a more contemporary, early 20th-century environment that's been left to its own devices,” Nolan explains on set. “It was a German mining town in the early 20th century. Then they started finding bigger diamonds down the coast, so they just pulled the roofs off and left. It’s house after house that looks exactly like this. It’s a long way to go, but it’s going the extra mile to find a place that really is post-apocalyptic.”
Nolan actually took the cast and crew down to Namibia’s Skeleton Coast to film much of the scene, but there wasn’t enough time on location to get all the footage they needed. So Nolan and production designer Howard Cummings worked to recreate the place in studio. And after lots of crew members ran back and forth with buckets of sand to get the look just right, they were able to finish.
The scene in question is universally referred to as “the ass jerky scene.” Mention that phrase to Nolan, Goggins, or Purnell and they know exactly what you’re talking about. After leaving her Vault in the series’ first episode, Lucy ends up in a strange partnership with the Ghoul. In this scene, they run into Roger (Neal Huff), another irradiated “ghoul” who has done a much worse job of maintaining his human side than Goggins’ character. On the precipice of finally descending into madness, Roger asks The Ghoul for help. He obliges, asking his old acquaintance to remember the joys of the pre-apocalypse world, like apple pie and ice cream.
With Roger distracted by reverie, The Ghoul shoots him in the head — and immediately begins carving meat off his body. When Lucy reacts in horror, The Ghoul humorously explains that her beloved father (Kyle MacLachlan) probably committed similar acts in order to survive.
In the span of just a few minutes, the scene is heartbreaking, horrifying, hilarious, surprising, and gross. In other words, it’s “like a diorama of this world,” Goggins says. “This is typical of a scene in Fallout, in that there is so much going on.”
Ella Purnell in 'Fallout'.
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Lucy’s resistance to cannibalism has a meta humor to it, since Purnell is coming to Fallout in the wake of her performance on Yellowjackets, a show that really explores what it takes to survive in a desolate situation. But as Purnell points out, the cannibalism doesn’t really start on Yellowjackets until after her character Jackie departs the story, meaning “this is the beginning of the Ella Purnell cannibalism narrative,” the actress says with a laugh. “It's the first time any of the characters that I've played have been introduced to cannibalism, and she’s rightly horrified.”
After working with other young actresses on Yellowjackets, Fallout put Purnell side-by-side with Goggins, who has steadily become the prolific MVP of the last decade of American TV. But if you thought his hair and makeup as Uncle Baby Billy on The Righteous Gemstones was transformative, The Ghoul’s extensive prosthetics (designed by Vincent Van Dyke) are on a whole other level.
“Watching Walton work is such a treat. He's such a dedicated, nuanced, funny performer and a very generous scene partner,” Purnell says. “I remember the first time I saw him on set, standing head-to-toe in prosthetics, plus the jacket and everything. It was like 96 degrees in New York, and I thought he was crying. Then I realized he wasn’t crying, he was sweating. He had a tough job and he was just such a trooper, such a professional.”
Goggins says of the prosthetics, “It was a challenge to talk, man. The other thing I was deeply insecure about was whether or not the audience was going to understand what was going on with me. But thank God that Vincent Van Dyke made it thin enough so that you picked up all the little nuances that someone has in their face when they're communicating an idea subconsciously. So I would ask him after every take, ‘Are you seeing this? Is this just a blank canvas?’ And he said, 'Buddy, we see everything. It's all in your eyes, we understand everything that you're doing.’ Once I felt secure about that, then we were off to the races.”
Power Armor and Maximus (Aaron Moten) in 'Fallout.'.
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Lucy and The Ghoul are two of Fallout’s core trinity of characters. The third is Maximus (Aaron Moten), a member of the Brotherhood of Steel. Together, these characters represent the different choices available to players of the Fallout games. Nolan credits that idea to Fallout showrunners Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner.
“One of the hallmark elements of the franchise is that you have to make decisions about whether your character's going to be good or bad. So how do we translate that moral ambiguity?” Nolan says. “So when Geneva and Graham came back and said, ‘We think it should be The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, with three characters who each represent stations along that moral spectrum,’ that was a brilliant solution.”
As a member of the Brotherhood of Steel, Moten gets to wear the Power Armor that is such a signature element of the Fallout games. But Maximus is not exactly as chivalrous as the Brotherhood’s ideals would suggest.
“I got really, really drawn to this character. He reminded me of Cassius in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, a hungry dog,” Moten tells EW. “He's lived his whole life in the wasteland, it’s where he's born and raised, which is different from the other two main characters. That's a world and a mindset that we don't really know, and that really excited me.”
The Brotherhood of Steel seeks to bring order to the wasteland, and their operatives are divided between “knights” (who wear and wield the destructive Power Armor) and “squires” (who assist with cleaning and maintaining the suit). That kind of hierarchy is present throughout Fallout: The differences between the Vault-Dwellers and Wastelanders, and even between capable ghouls like Goggins and desperate ones like Roger. As it happens, Nolan was developing the show with Robertson-Dworet and Wagner while the COVID-19 pandemic was happening.
“That idea of two Americas, a group of people who get to sit out the apocalypse and a group of people who don't, unfortunately became very relevant,” Nolan says. “But the games have always been political and satirical. Graham was joking that the first game could have been written by Adbusters. But I'll tell you, it was expiation to go through this global nightmare working on something that was dealing with similar subject matter, but with a sense of humor. Being able to ask difficult questions with a little bit of comedy was definitely a relief for us when we were all going through some pretty dark days.”
Here we are a few years later, and viewers will get to enjoy Fallout without worrying as much about the dangers of going outside. Or perhaps the apocalypse is always closer than it appears.
Actually heard some negative reviews about this...
Nope don;t get it
This is good
but I am biased as f*k because Goggins >>>>>>>>>
Nope don;t get it
This is good
but I am biased as f*k because Goggins >>>>>>>>>
