# Fallout (2024)

> Two centuries after nuclear war, vault dwellers emerge into a violent, absurd wasteland and discover a world far stranger than their shelter's promises.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/88898

## Facts

- Seasons: 2
- Episodes: 16
- Episode runtime: 62 min
- Status: Returning Series
- Genres: science fiction, action, comedy, drama
- Created by: Graham Wagner, Geneva Robertson-Dworet
- Network: Prime Video
- Cast: Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, Moisés Arias, Frances Turner, Kyle MacLachlan, Walton Goggins, Leslie Uggams, Michael Cristofer
- TMDB rating: 8.3/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12637874/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: graphic
- Tone: irreverent, bleak, quirky, violent, darkly comic

## What critics say

Critics broadly praise the series as a faithful, darkly comic adaptation of the Fallout games, with Walton Goggins's performance and the production design widely admired, though some find its sentimentality and second-season shifts uneven.

## Synopsis

Fallout (2024-present) is an American post-apocalyptic science fiction series created by Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet for Prime Video, adapted from the Bethesda video game franchise. Ella Purnell plays Lucy MacLean, a sheltered vault dweller forced out of her gentle underground community into the irradiated ruins of Los Angeles, where she teams up with Aaron Moten as Maximus, a squire-turned-soldier, and Moises Arias as her brother Norm, whose ambitions pull them in different directions. Walton Goggins stars as The Ghoul, a disfigured bounty hunter who lived through the old world and is the show's most compelling figure, a cynical anti-hero with a long, murky past. The engine is simple and relentless: the vault dwellers want to find their way home and survive a landscape of raiders, mutants, robots and feuding factions, and each episode builds the wider mythology of a world where cheerful mid-century optimism has rotted into brutality. Across two seasons the series runs as a serialized, eight-episode-per-season story with an overarching arc, balancing dark humor with graphic violence. Its tone is gleefully weird and bleakly comic, with a retro atomic aesthetic in the vein of Westworld and The Man in the High Castle, and fans of the games and of The Walking Dead will find resonance in its sardonic wasteland adventure.

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