Amazon’s Fallout TV series has been released to rave reviews, surpassing the success of HBO’s The Last of Us. The Fallout series, based on Bethesda’s RPG series, has been praised for its impressive adaptation of the video game’s world, not just its story.
The series takes place 219 years after a nuclear attack decimates America and follows three different characters whose paths intersect. Lucy, a vault dweller, ventures out into the surface world for the first time in a quest to find her kidnapped father. She crosses paths with Maximus, a soldier in a tech-obsessed faction called the Brotherhood of Steel, and The Ghoul, a mutated bounty hunter who’s seemingly been turned immortal by radiation poisoning.
The Fallout series has been successful in adapting the sprawling RPGs where players get to forge their own path in the wasteland while juggling tons of storylines at once. It adapts to the world of Fallout, not its story, which is a bold decision that future filmmakers should take note of.
The Fallout series is likely to follow in the footsteps of The Last of Us, doing for comedy what The Last of Us did for drama. The skepticism around video game adaptations is turning, with The Last of Us proving that a video game could translate into Emmy-nominated prestige television.
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