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Fallout season 1 review - a wild Wasteland safari where naive optimism meets gory mayhem

The creators of Westworld tackle one of gaming’s foremost franchises in the new Prime Video streaming series Fallout starring Ella Purnell, Aaron Morten and Wal

The creators of Westworld tackle one of gaming's foremost franchises in the new Prime Video streaming series.Boom time: whether by accident or design, the Fallout TV show - announced in 2020 and arriving in a binge-ready eight-episode payload this week - is launching at an auspicious moment. Of course they were going to keep the snazzy blue jumpsuits, hulking Brotherhood of Steel power armour and the vast, clanking, cog-shaped Vault doors that resemble a particularly intimidating Early Learning Centre playset teaching toddlers how gears work. We first meet Goggins pre-apocalypse as charismatic cowboy turned toothy western movie star Coop Howard, a loving husband and father trying to navigate a Hollywood red scare while the Vault-Tec corporation grows in influence.

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