If you’ve played Fallout, then you are already watching this show, and know that it pays off.

Fallout is a TV show based on a game series with 9 editions.  I haven’t played the game, but didn’t have any trouble figuring out what’s going on.  Fallout takes place in a post-apocalyptic alternative universe that is similar to ours until the 1950’s, when computer chips weren’t invented.  The technology and culture advance, but with a retro feel.  The show, like the game, is satirical.  It can be plenty violent, but in a quirky way.

The plot isn’t complicated.  The show focuses on the three main characters as they work their way through the post-apocalyptic world to get what they want.  Lucy is good and attractive, Ghoul is corrupt and mutated, and Maximus a regular guy who wants to be heroic.  

Fallout looks and sounds great.  Much effort went into making it seem like a plausible 1950’s world with technological advances.  It seems like a show that I will be rewatching.