Fallout - Season Two Episode One Review

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ladies and gentlemen welcome to the concession stand here on the kb radio network i am your host kevin reed and this is the review of season two to prime videos

latest video game adaptation fallout which stars ella pernell aaron morton and walton goggins just to name a few this show is set two centuries after the great war of 2077 in which society has collapsed following a

nuclear holocaust uh season one of fallout was

I just loved it.

It was a pleasant surprise.

I wasn't a

Fallout gamer.

I think I played it once,

you know,

never finished it,

just played it to play.

You know,

never really got into the game like that.

I didn't finish it because it was bad or anything.

It just didn't really click,

you know.

It had some interesting stuff in it,

but I never was a Fallout guy.

And so when the show came around.

I was interested,

you know,

let's see what it's all about.

And the show,

the first season was great.

I was in

100% on this show.

The first season didn't have any bad episodes in my humble opinion.

I was just hyped up for season two.

So happy when they announced it.

Not only did they announce that,

but earlier this year,

they also announced season three,

which will come.

uh either next year or in

2027 but um here we are with season two it's season two uh highly anticipated by me real excited i enjoyed the characters i enjoyed the world that was built in season one and we were left with a huge cliffhanger in

season one and like i said i didn't play the games so i don't know if any of this is

canon per se but just going off of everything else that is based off of a media whether it's video games comic books a novel whatever the case may be we know that it translates differently when you switch medias and so i

i can imagine that there was going to be some rumblings and grumblings really didn't hear much about season two as far as any backlash is concerned uh everybody i talked to enjoyed the show

Even some people that I know that played the game enjoyed the show.

Of course,

they pointed out some differences,

but that's to be expected.

Season 2 took a big swing.

And from what I know,

from what I have gathered,

this season is based off of Fallout New Vegas,

which is a game in the franchise,

or the video game franchise.

And it is one of the most popular games in that.

franchise uh beloved by fallout players and so they took a big swing here because if they don't get this right especially for those who are big fan of the property it could crash and burn so i was kind of scared for him you know but

me being a novice i didn't care i just wanted a good show so fingers crossed uh fallout season two

episode one which dropped on prime video it opens with a flashback of these protests that are taking place years prior to the uh holocaust to the war that took place and the protest is against this company called rob co and

the founder and ceo robert house who is played on the show by justin Thoreau who...

is it me?

Or does...

Justin Theroux gets slept on.

You don't see him in a lot.

But Justin Theroux is phenomenal.

One of the most underrated actors working.

Because everything he's in,

he's money.

You know,

whether it's drama,

like The Leftovers,

he's money.

If it's comedy,

Charlie Angel's

Full Throttle.

He's money in that.

He's the best thing about that movie.

That movie was horrible.

But he was,

I loved him in that movie and countless other things.

He's an accomplished writer as well.

You know,

he wrote

Iron Man 3.

He wrote.

Tropic Thunder.

He is super talented,

and it feels like he doesn't get to shine like he should in my humble opinion.

And so to see him pop up on screen in the first scene,

nonetheless,

really,

really got me excited for this season and for this episode.

And I wasn't disappointed as the episode went on,

or at least the scene went on,

and he kind of rubs the patrons at

this local bar the wrong way uh while they're everybody in the bar is against robco only to find out that the ceo of robco is sitting right there at the in the bar and so there's

a big uh a brouhaha brewing and they go outside to have this uh fisticuffs and he offers one of the guys as one of the bullies,

millions of dollars,

you know,

millions of dollars to.

plant this device in the back of his neck like this transmitter looking thing in the back of his i think it was 31 million dollars to be exact in the trunk of his car he said all of it would be yours all you got to do is put this in the back of your neck and

so he didn't want to do it he was about to beat him up and uh justin thoreau's character uh robert he gets the upper hand sticks the uh device on the back of his neck tells him

to get rid of his friends and hands him a bat and he without questioning without anything starts beating one of them to death literally with the bat and the other one ran away and the

bully turns to robert and he's trying to get the the remote control to work right can't get it to work right but before he could be attacked by this guy the guy's head blows up the transmitter blow

blows the guy's head up and so you're like okay you know on to the next one but i think that was a good setup to the origins of this device and where where is this going to lead because we see this device again later on in the episode a couple of times uh

we see a device on the table and then we see one on uh a guy who's scrapped to a chair being puppeted

buy this device only for his head to explode so it seems like they never mastered this uh mind control transmitter on in the back of people's necks but it's going to be very very interesting to see where they where

this leads throughout the season you know um we get another flashback uh to what we saw last season where cooper who is

also the ghoul played by walton goggins uh he's listening to this meeting with his wife in this meeting discussing this war or this the bombs that's going to be dropped on these cities and whatnot so

he decides to leave go get his daughter and they you know run away because he knows that this is going to happen that these bombs are going to drop

And they go to this town where all of a sudden you see the Vault-Tec vans and aircraft in the air like the bombs were about to drop.

And all it was was a test to see how long it would take for people to get into their bunkers or vaults or whatever.

Just a test run,

if you will.

And so at this point,

Cooper is like,

oh,

OK.

okay uh something i gotta do something with this so he takes a meeting with uh oh my god what's her name uh i can't remember her name that or the actress name but anyway they they meet up at this diner but

she tells him like look you need to go back uh uh smooth it over with your wife she's about to meet up with robert i need you to be there at that meeting but not to spy i need you to go

she didn't say the words but that's what she was implying to go and kill robert you know because he's the one that's going to drop the bombs is it if somebody presses the button he's going to be the one to press the button so i you the one that you're going to have to kill him and

so he was of course hesitant to do this because he's not a trained assassin he's not a secret service agent you know he he's just an actor and so he doesn't he

takes his daughter and they leave and one thing leads to another

they uh now this could be taken i'm talking about this flashback like it happened early in the show this actually could have happened because it was pieced throughout the show or this episode but it doesn't matter might as well tell it all in once one swoop uh

he takes his daughter they go back home and they're listening on the news about this meeting and whatnot and uh his wife comes home.

So that lets you know that okay.

He's going to go and try to kill Robert.

So we got that set up for the rest of this season.

Did he actually do it?

Well,

we know that the bombs were dropped.

There's no ifs,

ands,

or buts about that.

We know that that happened.

It's just a matter of when,

how,

and who.

But good set up to see how

Cooper, before he became the ghoul,

is navigating through this world trying to stop.

this apocalypse before it happens uh which we ultimately know he fails at doing we get caught up going to our present time now we we're caught up with uh uh chet and stephanie in

their votes where chet is pretty much the de facto dad or stepfather to this child that he has no

It isn't his child and everybody keep referring to him as the dad and he's not feeling that because he's not that child's dad.

And he goes to talk to Stephanie.

Stephanie,

because she's the new overseer now in vault.

I think they're in vault 32.

She's the overseer there.

And she's struggling with that role,

of course,

because she's an imbecile.

But there there's a rift between those two because he's like,

look.

everybody keep telling me that you know i'm this child's father and i'm not you know that this is my only job is to watch watch the kid can you at least give him a name and she's like well call him chet jr you're like well no i'm not gonna do that was my dad's name he was chet jr you

know so there's there's a riff there of nice little levity there as well which this show does a good job of doing splitting

the humor and the seriousness and the action and all that other good stuff up you know you get a heavy dose of all and it's a perfect mix believe it or not and we also get caught up with hank who

is in the empty vault tech facility um he's he's alone in there basically starving to death

uh where we uh left him off last season where he went into the vault looking for his father we know that his father is not there but he goes in there uh to get some answers and there's nobody home and he's locked in there with this animatronic like brain

mechanism thing that is pretty much picking with him and he's trying to find a way out of there uh then we get caught up with our heroes We get caught up with...

uh uh the ghoul and lucy and they are in a when we first see them they're in a kind of picky situation or a sticky situation i should say um being caught by this gang who are outside of new vegas as they're on the trail of

lucy's father and the ghoul is about to get hanged and lucy being Lucy.

She tries to negotiate

she tries to negotiate with these uh uh hooligans um even though she lays out the whole plan to him like look can you just settle a debate i

feel we should uh talk it out and you just point us in the right direction whatever whatever and give us some of your uh supplies and this that the third or his plan where we escape,

kill you all,

take the planet.

because i don't i don't want violence and all this here all she had to do was supposed to shoot the rope that the ghoul was about to get hanged and so the whole time she debated and uh hooligans there they're

like well kill her kill her and eat the dog and she's like well okie dokie her patented line shoots the rope and the ghoul uh finishes off that game

in glorious fashion he he wipes them all out but i love that scene in this in this episode

They continue on the trail looking for Lucy's father.

They run across this woman who's in this,

who got this little store set up where she sells flea soup.

And so they're like,

well,

he must have passed her.

And so

Lucy goes to ask her,

but she orders some soup,

some flea soup.

And so the woman gets up and just shakes her hair,

get the fleas out of her hair,

dump it in the soup.

and give it to lucy to eat and so uh tells her that oh yeah he came this way uh he took my son and like oh we're sorry he's like yeah yeah it's bad because he owes me money talking about the son didn't

care about his safety or that she just want the money and so they uh continue on the trail they get to new vegas and uh we also get caught up with ridge ridge is probably

my favorite character or one of at the moment,

my favorite characters on the show,

Reg,

Reg is just trying to find his place,

trying to find his purpose.

And nobody wants to deal with Reg.

And so,

Reg,

he tries to start this new club,

you know,

of the inbred,

vaulters.

If,

and it was a cool scene where they're,

they're having this little share circle with this.

And you have a brother and sister who are,

you know,

pretty much okay with the incest and the inbreeding portion of these

Volt Drellas.

And you have an old lady there,

and she's talking about how her father and her,

the father's second cousin or fifth cousin,

I forgot what the lineage was,

but regardless,

their family.

And who is actually her mother.

and how they're all together and it was a riff in the family because the father wanted the sister of the second cousin and all this it was it was the way that actress uh uh delivered that speech was just money to me and

reg is just stuck there listening to it the whole time um you have you have uh uh in new vegas with lucy and the ghoul

They go into one of the vaults there,

and it's one of the vaults where it's all the experiments,

one of the experimental vaults where we learn a lot of information,

or Lucy learns some information,

or at least attempts to,

because

Hank is the father,

not the son.

The son is Norm.

I think I mixed it up earlier.

My mistake.

Yeah,

Norm is the son and the brother of Lucy,

but Hank.

who was played by

Kyle McLaughlin.

He erases all the files and whatnot and takes the files with him wherever he went to.

But they do discover some things there.

They discovered the transmitter mind control device of some of the experimentations that's going on in that boat.

And one of them wakes up.

One of them wakes up,

and it's Hank talking through this thing,

talking to Lucy to tell her,

go home.

Just go home.

And the head explodes.

Because,

once again,

it doesn't seem like they nailed down the technology there.

Cooper, or the ghoul,

as he is now,

is still on the search for his family.

He's still looking for any answers to where his wife and daughter is.

And basically,

that's the episode.

So this looks like it's going to be.

Another fun season here.

The only knock I have about this episode,

we didn't get an update on Maximus,

which I know we're going to get.

He's on the show.

I mean,

he's on the post.

But

I mean,

it would be nice to catch up with him.

But I'm assuming next episode probably is going to be Maximus Heavy as far as him where we left him last season where he is a knight now.

of the

Brotherhood of Steel.

So,

you know,

in a higher position there is.

So it will see probably next episode or the third episode,

whatever.

I'm pretty sure they're going to dedicate a lot of time to him before we get to do Vegas with

Lucy and the ghoul.

And so because they're going to have to link up at some point.

At some point,

they will link up to find Hank.

wherever he is hiding but uh other than that i enjoyed it i'm excited for what's coming next they set up a lot going forward you know this isn't going to be

a rehash of the first season it looks like we have a lot more stories to be told and like i said don't know much about the games i don't know how fallout new vegas is set up you know as far as these

transmitter things or the hank aspect of it all it

uh the ghoul finding his family and all this i don't know what was created for the show and what is canon in the games but i don't care as far as me in this show i am so happy with the way the show is being ran in what direction we are heading i would like to know how

did you feel about episode one of fallout season two are you excited

as you were for the first season,

if you were a fan of the first season,

or did you watch the first season and say,

I don't know if this for me,

probably checked out this episode to see if maybe there was something there and you're still not quite sure.

I would like to know.

You know,

it's all subjective.

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Everybody,

thank you for joining me for this recap of

Fallout Season 2,

Episode 1.

currently streaming on

Prime Video.

Want you all to know that I love you.

Continue to love everyone.

And until we speak again,

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