But transferring Fallout’s hardscrabble post-nuclear pleasures to the small screen presents a problem similar to Fallout inventory management.
Those are all cool as hell.
There were certainly no jokes in its antiseptic vision of the future.
Nolan and Joy’s preferred mode of operation appeared to be chilly, cryptic and nominally cerebral.
Could that work with something as narratively down-and-dirty but satirically heightened as Fallout?
There are two distinct strains of humour baked into the Fallout games.
Squint a bit and the wide-eyed Lucy acts like someone who literally has no idea how to play Fallout.
The world-weary wild card is Walton Goggins as a gunslinging ghoul with a mercenary streak.
Aside from one mid-season rug-pull, Fallout’s main mystery - how did it all come to this?
Most of the leads genuinely seem to be trying their best in difficult circumstances.
What a lovely, if blood-spattered, surprise.
Season one of Fallout launches onPrime Videofrom 11th April.
