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Ended watching part of this with my wife

I should have listened to myself and not down it!! She couldn't sleep!

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Fallout

Its a Netflix show based on a computer game I never played. I cant tell you what the plot is because I never really understood but it involved an actor and well healed community at some point in I think the 60's. a nuclear holocaust, a severed head, a distopian community hundreds of years later a lawless world outside of that where everyone seems to be in the wildwest and some highly unusual characters.

I have absolutely not a clue what it was about, what happened, when it happened (the timeline, if there even is one it was undecipherable to me), what the point was?

Biggest pile of shite Ive ever wasted several hours of my life on.

Out of 10?

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1, and thats generous

I wonder if you have to have played the game to enjoy it, because the majority of reviews for the series are really positive.

I've never played a video game in my entire life and I'm three episodes in and really enjoying it.

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You are doing well, I have watched all 8 and dont really have a clue what is was all about. The first episode was set in or around the 60's I think, Is that right? Then the timelines jump hugely forward but some of the original characters remain?

I've found this on IMDB as a pattern

If a film is Sci Fi or based on a computer game IMDB overrates it

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I absolutely adored this. Just as with The Last Of Us, you don’t need to be a gamer to get it. In fact I had no idea it was a game before I read this. Unlike yourself I understood it fully, however it really only began to pick up somewhere around halfway, episode four, when main protagonist Lucy goes from a gosh-darn 50’s teenager to a motherfucker, fuck you killer.

And speaking of Lucy. The plot. Opening in 50’s America, at the height of the cold war, we see washed-up movie star Cooper Howard now reduced to appearing at children's birthday parties after being accused of being a commie. While at one of these parties the bomb drops, and we fast forward 200 odd years or so to post-apocalyptic wasteland, populated by various total mental cases. Cannibals, guys dressed head to toe in armor calling themselves The Brotherhood, assorted freaks, and not least ghouls. Which brings us back to Cooper Howard. Now reduced to an almost fleshless skull, wandering the wasteland using his skills with a gun as some sort of bounty hunter. When the bombs fell, those who could afford it rushed to their fallout shelters, supplied by the villains of the piece Vault-Tec, obviously a shadowy origination as these things always seem to have. Getting to the severed head. It has a piece of tec’ in it which enables fusion. Which is why everyone wants to find it.

It’s brilliant. The 50’s idyll of the vaults is perfectly realized. All golly gee wiz, morning neighbor, sort of thing. There’s obviously going to be a second series as this finishes with Lucy and The Ghoul heading into the sunset together.

The cast are all pretty good, with Walton Goggins as Howard/The Ghoul the outstanding player. Kyle MacLachlan pops up in the first and last episodes, which is never a bad thing, and Ella Purnell as Lucy is excellent. All in all I’d highly recommend this.

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