Fallout asks, "How many pricks can one Wasteland take?"

What’s Happening

Not gonna lie, We check in with the Brotherhood Of Steel as the shows second season continues getting up to speed.

B Fallout asks, “How many pricks can one Wasteland take? ” We check in with the Brotherhood Of Steel as the show’s second season continues getting up to speed. (yes, really)

William Hughes — By William Hughes | | 3:00am Photo: Lorenzo Sisti/Prime TV Reviews Fallout Copy to clipboard × Copy Link Copy Link — Facebook X Reddit Bluesky Email 0 How many assholes can you fill a setting with before it begins, overwhelmingly, to stink?

The Details

Its a question Fallout has struggled with before and never more than when dealing with the Brotherhood Of Steel, quite possibly the biggest collection of reeking anuses in all the bombed-out Wastes . Outside of Maximus, Dane, and, arguably, Elder Cleric Quintus—who’s at least a different flavor of power-hungry piece of shit—every Brotherhood member we’ve seen in the show so far has been the worst that the post-apocalyptic world has to offer, a whole army of insecure, heavily armed frat-bros whose only difference from the other “matching jackets” trying to control the Wastes has been a nicer set of duds.

Fallout has raised the question before, and it’s one it wrestles with now: If this is the “best” of humanity after the bombs fell, what’s even the fucking point? This nihilism is underscored of this episode, which is fixated, as ever, on the ending of the world.

Why This Matters

Its a slightly smaller one than usual, admittedly, as we get to see the final moments of the thriving, peaceful settlement of Shady Sands, which we found out last season was Maximus’ original home before, well…just watch, yeah? If Shady Sands isn’t outright paradise, it’s clear that this corner of the New California Republic was a hell of a lot better of a place to grow up than literally anywhere else we’ve seen in this entire show, with people working together toward self-sustainability, libraries set up in the streets, and violence kept to a minimum.

The entertainment world moves fast, and this is a prime example.