FALLOUT
AMAZON GOES ATOMIC TO MAKE A POST-APOCALYPTIC HIT
Lucy (Ella Purnell) faces a frightening future.
★★★★
OUT NOW (PRIME VIDEO) / EPISODES VIEWED 8 OF 8
SHOWRUNNERS Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Graham Wagner
CAST Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, Walton Goggins, Kyle MacLachlan, Leslie Uggams, Matt Berry
PLOT Los Angeles, 2296. Lucy (Purnell) leaves the comfort of her Vault to find her father in a world destroyed by nuclear war.
ONE OF THE most fundamentally good things about Fallout, the television edition, is that it’s not content to simply be a fawning retread of any one of the various games. The game series, which began in 1997, is simply too expansive for that to work (“Thou shalt always get sidetracked by bullshit,” as one character puts it). Creators Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner, along with executive producers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, instead reconfigure the hallmarks of the games developed by Bethesda to mutate it into its own distinct entity, turning gameplay into entertainingly tense dramatic beats.