Fallout premiere: A bloated but promising start to the nuclear apocalypse
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Fallout premiere: A bloated but promising start to the nuclear apocalypse
Ella PurnellImage: Amazon[Editor’s note: The A.V. Club will recap each episode of Fallout throughout the month. The recap of episode two will publish tomorrow, April 11.] There’s a great 40 minutes of TV to be found in the opening episode of Amazon’s new Fallout show. Unfortunately, this is a 60-minute premiere.We open, as we must, on “The End” (title card included)—the defining moment of both this TV show, and the nearly 30 years of post-apocalyptic video games that it pulls its core ideas,...
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'Fallout' review: Video game adaptation is a wild nuclear Western
Walton Goggins, Ella Purnell, and Aaron Moten star in Prime Video's adaptation of the "Fallout" games.
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Fallout recap: "The One Where Matt Berry Plays A Very Polite Dissection Robot"
[Editor’s note: This is a recap of Fallout episode four. The recap of episode five publishes April 16.] In talking about Prime Video’s Fallout over these last four episodes, we’ve largely skipped over its merits as Hollywood’s latest big, expensive video-game adaptation. Partly that’s because a series has to stand, first and foremost, on its own strengths; no amount of in-jokes, Easter eggs, or bobbleheads can spackle over a show’s basic obligation to function as a compelling narrative...