Fallout (2024) Season One Review

Hello boys and girls and welcome to the concession stand here on the KB Radio Network.

I am your host

Kevin Reed and this is the review of season one of Prime Video's new video game adaptation.

fallout and this is a show that i was anticipating because it looked really interesting i never played the game even though i know the game is a very popular game i never played one second

of that game and i'm a video game nut but for some strange reason i never played the game and so i went into this show very new green uh just

prepare for whatever you know with no expectations on the story and you know how things were going to play out and how close it was to the lore and i you know sometimes it's good to go into films like that or tv shows like that you

know me being a comic book nut i when i go see comic book movies and it's completely different from what the comic books are it kind of

takes you out of the movie even though the movie can be good it can be interesting but at times the changes that they make for tv or film can take you out of the movie if you're a fan of that source material and

so and not just with comic books and stuff it can be a novel it can be

whatever the case may be i remember and trust me i'm going to review this show i remember the uh outcry when jack reacher i'm talking about the films that starred tom cruise people who are fan of the lee chow novels

of jack reacher were livid that tom cruise was cast as jack reacher because jack reacher you

in the books is more like the Adam

Allen Richardson character or person who plays the character in the actual TV show,

which is coincidentally also on Prime.

Tom Cruise is like five foot nothing playing this uh a gigantic character but he

I love Jack Reacher at least the first one I love that movie but I can understand how people were kind of throwed off by that but

I went into this completely blind not knowing anything if you don't know anything here's the premise to fall out

The show depicts the aftermath of an apocalyptic nuclear exchange in the alternate history of Earth,

where advances in nuclear technology after World War II lead to the emergence of retro-futuristic society and a resource war.

The survivors take refuge in fallout bunkers known as vaults,

built to...

preserve humanity in the event of nuclear annihilation.

219 years later,

a young woman named Lucy leaves behind her home in Vault 33 to venture out into the dangerous,

unforgiving wasteland of a devastated

Los Angeles to look for her father.

Along the way,

she meets a brotherhood of steel.

sire and a ghoul Bali hunter each with their own mysterious past and agendas to settle

This show stars Ella Purnell,

Kyle MacLachlan,

and

Walton Goggins,

as well as Aaron Martin.

This was a very good show.

I was super satisfied with the eight episodes that we got in this series.

This was produced,

or one of the producers here was Jonathan Nolan.

who is the brother of Christopher Nolan.

But he's not just riding off the success of his brother.

He has success of his own.

He gave us Westworld on HBO.

He also co-wrote The Dark Knight,

The Dark Knight Rises,

and many other projects.

He's very successful and very good at what he does.

So he's not just Christopher Nolan's brother.

He actually has a...

stellar career and uh his name being plastered on this show helped it and starting off with our stars here our stars of this show

are perfectly cast uh ella parnell who is if you don't know who she is she's the girl with the anime eyes i always say this that's how i describe her she has these big eyes big beautiful eyes and

it just stands out that's her greatest feature and

We have seen her on Yellow Jackets,

Army of the Dead.

She's building a pretty good career for herself.

Aside from Yellow Jackets,

which I enjoyed her,

I felt is her best work.

This rivals that.

This is like,

with Yellow Jackets,

this is

1A, 1B with Fallout as far as her acting.

I loved her character here as Lucy McClain.

I just love the way she played this character.

she wasn't just a naive uh fish out of water you know being in a boat for her entire life and venturing out into the world and you expecting her to be just this doofus

and don't know how the world works and whatnot it it wasn't that even though there is elements of that of course uh she doesn't know how things work but she was told pretty early on in order to survive

on the surface she has to adapt to the surface and she began to adapt but she still kept her core how who she is as a person throughout this season and man

good job because normally a character will have this dramatic change by the end of the season which she does go through some changes don't get me wrong there are changes to her character but

At the end of the day,

she's still Lucy.

And

Ella played this beautifully.

Really enjoyed her here.

The other story or the other character that got a lot of the focus in this season was the character of Maximus,

who was played by Aaron Morton.

And he plays a squire in the Brotherhood of Steel.

And like I said,

I don't know how the game works,

but how this.

faction is set up very cult-like and he's just this like the lowest of the low and he uh has to work his way up you know work his way up to be where he is in

the ranks he was all right i think i like the character i didn't so much like the performance the performance was kind of bland at times

I liked it in certain episodes,

but the majority of the episodes,

I really didn't like Aaron's performance here.

He just had that one facial expression every episode.

You know,

whether he was mad,

sad,

happy,

whatever.

It was the same facial expression.

You know,

he didn't emote enough for me.

Towards the end of the season,

I want to say episode seven and eight,

we finally got...

you know,

a smile.

And it was shocking in a sense,

but he should have been dead then.

But overall,

I like the character.

It was just the performance wasn't quite there with me.

But the star of this series is Walton Goggins.

Walton Goggins,

man,

did God's work in this season.

uh he plays the ghoul or uh slash uh cooper howard here and boy what a performance one of his best performances and walton goggins has been killing

it in everything he's in and i'm a huge fan of walton goggins i'm talking going back to justified it you know uh

Django Unchained and The Hateful Eight and so on and so forth but uh his comedies with uh

Vice Principals and uh The Righteous Gemstones and all these he is so versatile but

I loved him here and he used all of those elements,

comedy,

uh,

drama,

all that wrapped up in this performance,

in this series and awesome,

awesome performance by him.

Really enjoyed him.

He was truly the star,

uh,

of this show.

I don't know if it was intended for him to be the star.

I know that Ella Purnell is the quote-unquote star,

the lead of this series,

but

Walton Goggins,

I think he stole it from her in this season.

But,

you know,

there's no knock on Ella.

She did awesome.

he's walton goggins man i love that character uh the supporting cast we got we got a real strong supporting cast here and some you know a la left field guest stars and cameos it was really

really unexpected,

you know,

in these little small roles,

but they helped move the show forward,

and they weren't there to steal the scene,

they weren't there to,

you know,

take the spotlight off of our main characters,

they were just there to move the story along,

and,

uh,

did their job,

and that was that.

I like that element of it.

the structure of this show i think is the best you could do with this show once again not knowing how the games are set up but i liked the flow the tone it

flowed perfectly uh you know going back and forth in time uh because this is like there's a 200 year gap in time here so you know there's there's

a real distance between where it began and where it ended.

So a lot of story had to be told.

A lot of filler had to be dumped in there.

And it was done pretty well.

It was written really well.

I love the balance of the action and the gore and the comedy.

The comedy came in in the right spots.

That's one of the biggest things I noticed in this show.

you know,

it could easily had come off as cheesy.

They could have done the cheesy route with it,

but it was funny for goodness sakes.

You know,

it was,

it was perfectly placed jokes and it worked in the middle of the action,

in the middle of a heavy scene or something like that to kind of break the tension or whatever the case may be.

It,

it,

it flowed.

it wasn't just a corny dad joke or something like that it was real comedy real world uh uh interactions i like that about it it really stuck out throughout the season and

the special effects prime video did not spare no expense on this show

This is some of the best visual effects I've seen on a

TV show.

Now,

it wasn't perfect.

There was one creature in this film.

Not film,

but TV show that just was so cheap looking.

but it looked cheap looking from the jump,

and I guess that was the look they were going for,

so I'm not really knocking it for it,

but it was so,

it just looked bad,

but everything else looked amazing.

The scale and landscapes looked beautiful.

It was,

you know,

this desolate wasteland.

It was perfect,

and...

I must say,

this is one of the best looking apocalyptic

TV show or films I have seen in a long time.

It felt like a lived in world.

This felt like the world blew up.

It really looked like we was in the apocalypse after a nuclear war.

It looked like that,

you know,

because I'm seeing films and I'm pretty sure you've seen films where it's so.

tightly shot that it just looks like,

you know,

a three mile radius was affected by whatever took place,

you know,

but here it really feels like the entire world went through hell and it,

you know,

it was a disturbing look.

It really looked disturbing.

And

I mean,

kudos to the filmmakers,

to the set designers and production designers who worked on this show.

This really felt lived in these desolate towns that

Lucy traveled to and so on and so forth.

Even the vaults.

because you go to different vaults in this film uh i keep saying film in this show i'm saying film because it was it was binged the eight hours i just sat down and watched the whole the whole series in one sitting uh but it felt like a film it's

an eight hour long film but a film nonetheless but anywho it's um but the vaults felt lived in you know and

I appreciated it and I loved my last but not least in my goods

I loved the incorporations of the this 60s style of film I mean everything looked like it came from the 60s like this

show was made in 1963 or four or something like that you know with the music and the designs of the cars and the wardrobe everything just had that

60s motif and it looked great yeah it looked great i i enjoyed it for that uh my negatives like i said i only had a couple of them

the performance by Aaron

Moten as

Maximus, kind of dry,

didn't really like his performance too much.

The special effects on this one creature,

I think in episode four or five.

can't can't remember which one but uh you'll know it when you see it if you're seeing it you know what i'm talking about it i just couldn't stand the look of that thing it looked silly it just looked silly everything else looked amazing uh

they had this like mutated bear that looked phenomenal but this little water this thing that came out of the water

pink looking thing it just did not work for me uh that was it for my negatives i really didn't have any other negatives uh this show worked for me i really really enjoyed it uh throughout the uh show i was sitting

here wondering you know man

I wonder if fans of the video games are enjoying this.

There I go again.

Enjoying this TV show.

Is this doing the TV show justice or the game justice?

I don't know.

I hope it is because it worked for me.

Fallout,

which is currently on

Prime Video,

all eight episodes can be binged.

Gets a letter grade.

of a B plus.

Yes,

this was an awesome show,

man.

I was curious as to why they dropped all eight episodes in binging fashion,

because,

uh,

as of late prime video,

hadn't done that.

You know,

like I've mentioned before,

Reacher,

Reacher was week to week,

uh,

Disney plus do week to week,

uh,

with their shows.

Uh,

a lot of shows have kind of,

started doing the week-to-week format thing sometimes it's good sometimes it's bad like for x-men 97 i wish it was binged you know i hate i hate waiting a week but i'm enjoying it for what it is i

don't i'm not mad at this being binged because the way the episodes are set up and the way things work out it throughout the series i think that it needed to flow

you know,

you couldn't wait,

it wasn't,

it wasn't real cliffhangers per se,

after every episode,

you know,

some episodes,

yeah,

but not every episode had a cliffhanger to where as,

oh man,

can't wait for next week,

but it was good,

it was still good,

and it was good to watch it just throughout.

it worked for me that way but i would like to know how did you feel about fallout if you watched it did you enjoy it are you a fan of the games and how did you feel being a fan of the games and if you haven't seen the show are

you planning on checking it out i highly recommended me personal

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to the concession stand here on the kb radio network everybody thank you for joining me for this review of prime videos brand new video game adaptation fallout can't

wait to speak to you on the next go around i want you all to know that i love you continue to love everyone and until we speak again you all be blessed

Fallout (2024) Season One Review

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