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The Fallout TV show’s Season 1 is now available to streamEight episodes of Pip-Boys, power armour and daddy issues
Eight episodes of Pip-Boys, power armour and daddy issues
Image credit:Amazon Prime Video
Image credit:Amazon Prime Video
Amazon and Bethesda’sFalloutTV show is now available to stream over Amazon’s Prime subscription service. Picture it: the post-apocalyptic America of Fallout, radroaches and stimpacks and all, except that this being a TV adaptation, the first hour doesn’t consist entirely of trying to persuade Bethesda’s face editor not to make your character look like their soul has been sucked out. Instead, you can kick back with a can of Nuka Cola and watch flesh-and-blood stars Ella Purnell, Walton Goggins and Aaron Moten rove the wasteland. I caught the first couple of episodes last week, and while I find the show’s aesthetics off-putting - it’s kind of a Fallout themepark, rather than a convincing world - I do think there’s the makings of a fun tale here.
Purnell plays Lucy McLean, a Vault 33 resident who must make her way to the irradiated surface and search for somebody - an open-ended premise that has served many Fallout games down the years. Walton Goggins, meanwhile, plays a legendary ghoul cowboy handed one last job, and Moten is a Brotherhood Of Steel trainee who soon discovers that the Brotherhood Of Steel aren’t as righteous as they claim. The tale alternates between their perspectives, with other notable characters including Kyle MacLachlan off Twin Peaks as Lucy’s dad. I’ll avoid giving too much away but suffice to say, there’s a wider conspiracy and who knows, people who are trying to murder each other might eventually have to join forces to make things right.
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If you’re keen - and the current wider critical reaction is certainlyskewing positive- you can findthe whole first season of the Fallout TV show on Amazon Prime. Amazon and Bethesda have already confirmedFallout Season 2.
