Rating: ★★★★½ (4.5/5) Recommended if you like: Mad Max: Fury Road , The Last of Us , Severance , dark satire.
It is brutal, bizarre, and beautiful. If you like Mad Max but wish it had more jokes, or Severance but wish it had more nuclear explosions, this is your new obsession. BLACKED.17.03.26.Valentina.Nappi.XXX.1080p.MP4
For decades, the “video game curse” has haunted Hollywood. From the cheesy corridors of the Super Mario Bros. movie to the tepid gunfights of Borderlands , studios have struggled to translate interactive joy into passive storytelling. Enter Fallout . Showrunner duo Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet haven’t just made a good video game show; they’ve made a brilliant piece of television that stands shoulder-to-shoulder with The Last of Us . The plot is a perfect gateway drug for newcomers. We follow Lucy (Ella Purnell), a sunny, optimistic “Vault Dweller” raised in a pristine underground bunker. When her father is kidnapped by surface raiders, she is forced to open the massive gear-door of Vault 33 and step into the burning hellscape of post-apocalyptic Los Angeles (now known as the “Wasteland”). Rating: ★★★★½ (4
What makes the show sing is its tonal tightrope walk. Fallout is an incredibly violent, often sad world—humanity has been reduced to scavenging rusted tin cans and fighting over irradiated water. Yet, it is also hysterically funny. The show nails the retro-futuristic 1950s optimism clashing with gory reality. Lucy wanders into a cannibal camp offering a handshake and a smile while blood drips from the ceiling. The joke isn’t on her naivete; it’s on the absurdity of the world itself. While Purnell is fantastic as the wide-eyed idealist, the true star is Walton Goggins as “The Ghoul.” He plays a mutated, noseless gunslinger who looks like a zombie but moves like Clint Eastwood. Goggins delivers a dual performance—half ruthless mercenary in the present, half hopeful family man in flashbacks set just before the atomic bombs fell in 2077. His voice, a gravelly drawl dripping with 200 years of cynicism, is the soundtrack of the apocalypse. Every scene he is in crackles with unpredictable danger. For decades, the “video game curse” has haunted
Platform: Amazon Prime Video Genre: Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi / Dark Comedy / Action-Adventure Starring: Ella Purnell, Walton Goggins, Aaron Moten Verdict: 4.5/5 Nuka-Cola Caps (Must-Watch)