“Fallout” series starts on Prime Video: This is what viewers can expect

“Fallout” series starts on Prime Video
This is what the viewers can expect

The “Fallout” video game series has been very popular among gamers for many years. Now Amazon’s streaming service Prime Video has conjured up a new series from the legendary, post-apocalyptic world. The show, whose eight first episodes will all appear in one go on April 11th, captivates with a breathtaking mixture of smart humor, harsh violence and lots of cynicism – and should therefore appeal to both fans of the original games and newcomers.

This is what “Fallout” is about

In the world of “Fallout” a devastating nuclear war occurred around 200 years ago devastated the United States. A lucky few survived the nuclear apocalypse protected in massive underground bunkers. Young Lucy (Ella Purnell, 27) is a descendant of this privileged section of the population. However, after a terrible tragedy, she has to leave her home Vault 33.

In the outside world, the so-called Wasteland (or in German: Wasteland), Lucy meets a mutated bounty hunter (Walton Goggins, 52) who even experienced the nuclear war 200 years ago. This ghoul, once known by his human name Cooper Howard, was irradiated as a result of the nuclear apocalypse and is now nearly immortal.

The young soldier Maximus (Aaron Moten) also moves through the Wasteland. He belongs to the so-called Brotherhood of Steel, a group of highly technical warriors who were formed from parts of the US military after the nuclear catastrophe in order to bring law and order to the wasteland according to their own understanding.

Interesting facts about the “Fallout” series

The new series “Fallout” is a truly major project for Amazon’s streaming service Prime Video. The post-apocalyptic sci-fi show was created in close collaboration with the “Fallout” game company Bethesda. Games mastermind Todd Howard (54) serves as executive producer.

In addition, “Westworld” creators Jonathan Nolan (47) and Lisa Joy (46) are responsible for “Fallout” as series creators. Jonathan Nolan, the younger brother of Oscar winner Christopher Nolan (“Oppenheimer”, 53), also directed the first three episodes of Amazon’s new show.

The “Fallout” series tells a completely new story, but it takes place within the well-known, imaginative world of games. The show “may reference things in the games, but is not a retelling of the games. It exists in the same world, but stands on its own, is unique, and adds something to the games,” explained “Fallout 3” creator Howard in this regard before the start of the new Amazon series.

This is what the audience can expect

With “Fallout,” Amazon’s streaming service Prime Video could be on the verge of a similar success as the weird superhero parody “The Boys.” Because the new, retrofuturistic, post-apocalyptic sci-fi show also features a lot of black humor and cynicism as well as bloody action scenes.

This is particularly ensured by the ghoul embodied by the brilliant character actor Walton Goggins. He’s a kind of nuclear gunfighter, and – apart from his rotting skin and missing nose – he could just as easily have come from an old-fashioned spaghetti western like “Two Glorious Scoundrels” or a Tarantino film like “Django Unchained”. When the ghoul shoots around, heads explode, but at the same time the hard-boiled, hardened character always has an extremely entertaining, sarcastic remark on his lips.

It is not difficult to see that Amazon has paid a lot for its new series. The series creators around director Jonathan Nolan had enough budget available to resurrect the post-apocalyptic “Fallout” world in locations such as the Skeleton Coast of Namibia. During the production of the series, emphasis was placed on practical effects and the sparse use of computer images, which is particularly useful for the captivating action sequences.

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