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‘Fallout’ First Look: This Is How the World Ends—With a Smiling Thumbs-Up
The globally popular video game has become an epic TV series from ‘Westworld’ creator Jonathan Nolan.
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The globally popular video game has become an epic TV series from Westworld creator Jonathan Nolan.
Fallout often looks like the distant past, but it’s really the far-off future—and, actually, it’s the end of life as we know it.
In the new series, debuting on Amazon’s Prime Video on April 12, a nuclear war breaks out across Earth in the year 2077—which is (or was) an era of robots, hover cars, and a deep and abiding nostalgia for the America of the 1940s. Everything from the clothes, to the entertainment, to the vehicles mimic the look of that bygone age, albeit with a sci-fi tilt. That retro-futurist aesthetic was one of the charms of the mega-selling video game series that inspired the show.