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WE JUST MIGHT be in the golden age of video game adaptations. It wasn’t long ago that those three words—“video game adaptations”—would make both gamers and film and television the fandom automatically grimace. (yes, really)

But things have changed in the major way as we’ve made our way into the 2020s.

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The Last of Us has become a force for HBO, racking up viewers, the fandom, and acclaim. Movies like The Super Mario Bros.

Movie and A Minecraft Movie, while maybe not masterful pieces of art, have totally ruled the box office and helped the film industry remain afloat. Prime Video’s adaptation of Fallout might just be the best of the bunch.

Why This Matters

Based on the retro-futuristic post-apocalyptic game series of the same name, the first season arrived in the spring of 2024 to much acclaim. Thanks to some fire production value and a truly bussin cast—including Yellowjackets breakout Ella Purnell and a star role for the solid Walton Goggins even before his stay at The White Lotus —the show proved to be successful at a lot of things all at once. Not only was it a compelling drama, but it was also a fun hangout show where we just wanted to get to know the characters.

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Key Takeaways

• It was also a conspiracy thriller, where we desperately wanted to get to the bottom of something bigger and quite concerning happening.
• And, much like the games, it was just a big, well-developed world that we wanted to spend as much time as possible in.
• For Fallout season 1, that time was capped at eight episodes.

The Bottom Line

But now, as the show returns for a second season—with Purnell and Goggins returning, along with fellow series regulars Aaron Moten, Moisés Arias, and Kyle MacLachlan, among others—we’re more than ready to spend eight more episodes of time getting to see this world, how it works, and what happens within it. As if you needed any other reason, the second season adds a major name to the cast: Justin Theroux, who plays the sinister capitalist known as Mr.

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