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Amazon’s Fallout show gets the postapocalyptic vibes exactly right

But what if I *DO* want to set the world on fire?

“Tone” in Fallout is Walton Goggins’ whiskey-soaked cowboy drawl ripped straight from the age of Gary Cooper and John Wayne extolling the virtues of bucolic Vault-Tec living with a sign that says “Test Subjects” just a touch off-screen. Something about a daughter (Ella Purnell) looking for her kidnapped father (Kyle MacLachlan), a high-value scientist (Michael Emerson) sought for the secrets in his head (literally), and nuclear bombs falling not as long ago and from much closer to home than The Powers That Be want folks to believe. When Maximus (Aaron Moten), a squire in the Brotherhood of Steel — one of the many factions vying for control over the California wasteland — gets his first crack at being a full-fledged knight, he uses his power to stop a man from being beaten to death.

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