(courtesy IMP Awards)
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The new season will pick up in the aftermath of Season One’s epic finale and take audiences along for a journey through the wasteland of the Mojave to the post-apocalyptic city of New Vegas. Based on one of the greatest video game series of all time, Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left — and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, highly violent universe waiting for them. Fallout is a series created & written & showrun by TV creators / writers Geneva Robertson-Dworet & Graham Wagner. With eps from Season 2 directed by Frederick E.O. Toye, also of Lost in Space, The Terminal List, See, Shogun, The Boys. Produced by Kilter Films. Based on the video game series created by Bethesda Softworks; the very first Fallout game launched back in 1997. It’s executive produced by James Altman, Todd Howard, Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan, Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Graham Wagner, Athena Wickham. (courtesy First Showing)
Good lord but the first season of Fallout was a fiendishly imaginative, thoughtfully clever wild ride.
I’ve never played the video game, and no doubt, like The Last of Us, there are richer viewing pickings to be had if you have immersed yourself in and played the game, but that lack of involvement in the source material didn’t affect my enjoyment of the show one bit.
It was a thrill to see the apocalypse given its serious end-of-times due but with a savagely funny and gorgeously twisted flavour that made it sharply incisive observations about human nature, society and civilisation resonate all the more because they felt so relatably human.
The fact there is a second season dropping just before Christmas is the best festive present this genre TV addict could ask for – here’s to more madcap end of the world beginnings when Fallout S2 begins its eight-episode run on 17 December on Prime Video.