The Fallout TV show gets to the core of what makes the games great and can easily stand on its own two feet.
The Fallout (2024) television show is finally out, and it’s currently the talk of the town. All eight episodes of the first season were released last week on Amazon Prime. They didn’t do a week-by-week release schedule. They just put them all out at once. Each episode is about an hour long, so it’s about eight hours of content.
Fallout (2024) is great and has only a few small issues. If you like the games, you’ll like the show. It’s not just a fan service show or just a cash grab; it’s genuinely a really good television show. Another season of Fallout (2024) is likely coming, and it’ll continue to grow in popularity as time passes.
Fallout (2024) is also one of the greatest video game adaptations we have seen so far. It stands up there with The Last of Us television show on HBO as one of the best video game-based shows. It’ll be interesting to see if the show ends up getting any nominations at the award shows like The Last of Us did.
It seems like everyone is enjoying Fallout (2024) as much as I did. I had some small complaints about the show. That’s all they were—small complaints. Like how some things in the show are too convenient for the real world. I didn’t have anything majorly wrong with Fallout (2024), as I felt like it executed its source material very well. It also did a great job of not starting necessarily slow as many shows do. It doesn’t take a while to get into it. It’s awesome from the beginning to the end.
The strong suit of Fallout (2024) for me is the characters. Each character that we follow has an interesting plot and arc, and it doesn’t feel that boring when we’re switching around. The show juggles a couple of different characters in their interactions in the Fallout universe. Of course, I do think some might not be as good as others, but they are all entertaining. By the end, they all wrap up together in an awesome way.
A pretty neat part of Fallout (2024) is when we see the time before the bomb. The Fallout Universe is all about the post-apocalyptic setting that happens after many nukes are dropped. In these scenes, we follow Cooper, who eventually becomes a ghoul in the post-apocalyptic world. Before the bomb drops, though, he is a famous actor known for his westerns and playing a cowboy like Clint Eastwood or John Wayne.
In the games, we don’t see a ton of time before the nukes drop. We just spent time in the post-apocalyptic wasteland. So seeing these scenes is a treat and gives a lot of backstory to the world we all love. We spent a lot of time in this pre-war phase, and it was fun. I love how he figures out Vault-Tec’s (a major corporation’s) interior motives for war. It felt like it could’ve been a show on its own. And I hope they expand more on his character if they make another season.
Now, when we see him as a ghoul in the apocalyptic world, he has become a different man. He’s a man on a mission and is very cold and stern. But he is an actual cowboy in this world, no longer pretending to be one. The duality of who he was before and after the bombs dropped was so cool.
His acting is so good, I think a lot of people will be surprised. Fallout (2024) does a good job of having relatively unknown actors shine very brightly. I knew who Walton Goggins, who plays Cooper Howard, was before the show, but I’m sure a lot of people will not recognize him. That goes for a couple of the other actors in it as well.
Ella Pernell, who plays Lucy, the Vault Dweller, is another actress that I’m sure a lot of people won’t recognize, but I believe she gave a phenomenal performance that will lead to great roles in the future. The same goes for Aaron Morten, who plays Maximus and has to deal with the Brotherhood of Steel in the film.
Now, of course, people are going to complain about every little thing when it comes to an adaptation of a previously made video game, book, or whatever. Of course, the show isn’t perfect, but it is as good as you can get with the material. Fallout (2024) stands on its two feet, and it is a solid adaptation of the source material. It’s good enough that people who don’t know the games will enjoy it. We used to get adaptations that were seemingly made just for fans of the games, or vice versa. Now we are finally getting material that is made for the general public, and the general public can enjoy it.
Fallout (2024) does have its fan service moments, but it’s nothing crazy. You’ll get so involved in the show that you won’t begin to nitpick every little thing unless that’s what you’re trying to do with all media. And if you’re looking to nitpick every little thing, you probably shouldn’t watch anything at all! Fallout fans are spoiled with this adaptation, as it could’ve been miles worse. Think of all the terrible adaptations we have gotten for other video games for franchises such as Resident Evil.
It seems the general public is enjoying Fallout (2024), and season two is inevitable at this point. Amazon Prime is looking for more shows that will be exclusive to streaming services. They want to become one of the big services out there and compete with Netflix, Hulu, and such. I don’t think Amazon Prime will have an issue with renewing Fallout (2024), as it is doing great numbers right now.
Where Fallout (2024) is constantly engaging by jumping around different and unique characters, you will be entertained by the show. The only reason I think some people might not be able to watch it is that it has some graphic, over-the-top scenes. The Fallout Universe has that over-the-top feel to it. There will be some scenes where a person’s head explodes, and it’s very bloody, but it’s over-the-top and silly and not horrific by any means. I think if you like the concept of a post-apocalyptic, quirky Fallout world, you will enjoy the show. It’s not hard to follow and has plenty of potential to become a great series.
