Tomorrow (April 11), the entire first season of the “Fallout” adaptation will be available on Prime Video. The series “Fallout” is one of the most anticipated productions of this year. It is awaited not only by fans of the game who are curious about how the creators will manage to adapt it to the screen, but also by viewers who like created worlds in the science-fiction genre.
We have already seen “Fallout” and we can tell you whether the hopes placed in the series have been fulfilled. Michał Walkiewicz shares his impressions. You can find a fragment of his review below, and you can read the entire review on the “Fallout” tab HERE.
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Review of the series “Fallout” | PrimeVideo
Into the brightness
author: Michał Walkiewicz
“War. War never changes” – we read in every review of the game “Fallout”, usually in the first sentence. However, I will not accuse myself or others of intellectual laziness. It’s not our fault that when coming up with a story about the self-destructive impulses dormant in us, the creators hit the bull’s-eye right away: “The details are usually unimportant, and the reasons, as always, are human.” War, indeed, never changes.
Some people incorrectly attribute these words to the eighteenth president of the United States, Ulysses T. Grant. However, pop culture knows its own thing. It all started with the bass voice of Ron Perlman, who in 1997 invited us for the first time to the Wasteland – a cemetery of humanity decimated by a nuclear conflict. In the series, which is a bold attempt to tame fans of the digital universe, this sentence is also used, although in a slightly different context. I cannot reveal who says them and why. However, I can say that they are like a blow to the back of the head. This is a scene that functions as an elegant metaphor for the series itself – like most successful adaptations, “Fallout” offers something of itself to its sister medium. The story about the effects of the human death instinct is set in a contemporary cultural context.
It starts where it usually does, in the Vault – an underground refuge for the surviving rich, which is the pinnacle of corporate and technological thought. It is there that we meet Lucy (Ella Purnell), raised in a sheltered home, with an almost childlike naivety in her eyes. The cultural conflict between the inhabitants of the shelters, detached from the post-apocalyptic reality, and the inhabitants of the surface, hardened by life and radioactive fallout, organizes the entire action here. When, in pursuit of her abducted father, the heroine decides to leave the cozy bunker, reality quickly withdraws her concessions. The painful truth has the face of Maximus (Aaron Moten) – an aspiring cadet from the so-called The Brotherhood of Steel, a military junta with autocratic ambitions, and the nameless Ghoul (Walton Goggins), who has swapped the life of a movie star for that of a bounty hunter. The first one looks like a coward. The second one fires warning shots between the eyes. What could go wrong?
The entire review of the “Fallout” series can be found HERE.
series “Fallout” – plot
“Fallout” is a series based on one of the best video games of all time. It tells the story of fate and misery in a world where almost nothing is left. 200 years have passed since the apocalypse, and the benevolent inhabitants of luxurious shelters called crypts are forced to return to the incredibly complex, gleefully strange and extremely brutal world that awaits on the surface.
