It's kind of remarkable what happened in the span of a year. Last year, Bethesda released the long-awaited title Starfield, a new world by the creators of Morrowind, Skyrim, and (of most relevance here) Fallout. Just recently, the Borderlands movie came out, and was by all accounts a colossal failure (I haven't seen it yet).
And yet in between, a show about a video game world, an expansion of the lore from a Bethesda product came out, and it was fantastic.
I've only played the very beginning of the very first Fallout game, the old tactical isometric game from a million years ago, and then about an hour of Fallout 3 at my friend's house. Other than that, my exposure to Fallout has been exclusively through internet videos and memes, but even with that limited awareness, the show absolutely popped.
The characters are robust and dynamic, and the world is full of personality, danger, and excitement. Walton Goggins is tremendous as always, but maybe the strongest performance is by Ella Purnell, our optimistic and adventurous protagonist; we meet most of the surface world through her point of view, learning as we go along. The third protagonist is played by Aaron Moten, and he took the longest time for me to come around to. But by the end, he's as entertaining as any of them. Adding in some secondary characters played by Chris Parnell, Michael Emerson, Michael Rapaport, and many others, there's really entertainment around every turn.
The season of television asked a lot of questions, gave a lot of answers, and left enough unresolved that you absolutely must have a second season. And it will! Amazon announced that the show will be renewed for at least one more season, and I'm looking forward to more.
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