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What is the essence of Fallout, and does the TV show live up to it?
As the dust settles on Fallout's first TV season, which appears to have been as universally beloved as any piece of med…
On the one hand, you can trace Fallout's aesthetic all the way back to the opening cinematic of the first game, which juxtaposes a kitsch 1950s-style commercial with the blasted moonscape of post-nuclear America, all to the lilting vocals of the Ink Spots' "Maybe". When Lucy leaves the Vault in pursuit of her kidnapped father, her idealism is the source of endless amusement for the weathered, scarred, sometimes outright rotting inhabitants of the wasteland, and the show revels in countering her lawful good attitude with violence, cynicism, and most brutally of all, truth. A full-on trad-rock RPG complete with character stats, experience points, armour classes, inventories, and turn-based combat," Brooker wrote in his review of Fallout for PC Zone.
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