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That said, I had no interest in the Fallout TV show despite being a fan of the series since the 90s. No reason to expect a video game adaptation to be anything other than ass.

Husband and I both loved it. I've never played the games, so everything was a fun surprise. It contained a lot of things that would normally put me off a show, like potential for animal peril, but it has such momentum that we ate it up over two nights. As people have pointed out here, it's all very well acted, and the world is very well realised. All the little mysteries and cliffhangers reminded me of the heady early days of LOST, except I was confident that the show knew where it was going. I also realised halfway through that it's one of the few post-apocalyptic shows I've seen where there was no threat of sexual violence against the young female protagonist, which really made me feel a lot more comfortable about just rolling with it.

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I tried Palm Royale & quit halfway through the second episode. Not for me.

I get this but multiple things keep pulling me back in:

1) The society shenanigans are so ridiculously low stakes but the depths Kristin Wiig’s character is willing to go for them is oddly compelling.

2) Kristin Wiig looks glorious in every single scene. Like, I never thought of her as sexy before but in this? Wow.

3) I don’t know who decided Ricky Martin should be relegated to being in a bathing suit in every scene but I would like to shake that person’s hand.

4) JULIA DUFFY

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Throwing in to add to the Fallout love. Like others, never played the game, just knew something about general bits, retro feel, etc., and was perfectly happy with all the results. Making the soundtrack choices key throughout, especially as subbing over a lot of the shootouts, made for something that went from ironic contrast to perfectly comfortable beat. Like Scott I also have been enjoying the Halo series and while the tone of the two series are radically different, both are great melanges where the games -- haven't played Halo either -- were clearly their own melanges of various sources/inspirations so turning them into dramatic series obviously runs a reductive risk but the end results are engaging and I'm happy to see more from both as they go along.

(Working on Ripley in doses, will get to the rest soon enough. Shogun talk on its own thread natch.)

Fallout was way better than I expected but mostly the underground parts. Not sure how the ghoul/Army camp? stuff is going to go.

I hope the woman who got her eye forked is a regular character. The show needs a good retro futurist eyepatch.

Hah yeah seeing more of the 32/33 denizens going forward somehow I'll be good with. (Leslie Uggams was a good catch for the cast!)

Arcane was another good video game derived show. S2 later this year

what about Ark:The Animated Series! or is that for little kids. i don't know the game.

I only made it about 20 minutes into Fallout, but Blast From the Past and Night of the Comet are both showing on Tubi at the moment.

i enjoyed the first episode. i was dubious that i would like yet another 50s-style sci-fi show or movie but i liked looking at this show. like if Doom Patrol had an unlimited budget.

i mean you could put it in theatres. its big. don't know what it cost but its all right there.

Fallout looked reassuringly expensive, but I did not feel engaged with the characters and the knowing tone of voice, it just seems predictable and smug and mid.Sorry to be a grump!I

Michael Emerson is in Fallout, right? i'm afraid he will give me Lost depression. He was in the Nolan brother Person of Interest show too. i don't think i got far with that show because it probably gave me Lost depression. the sight of anyone from Lost can do that to me. i was not a fan of Westworld. the other Nolan brother show. i know people really liked it. i did not. i tried to. i watched the first season and a half probably. it turns out i don't care what happens to robots. Both Nolans really into retro doomsday bombs apparently!

Quite liking Fallout. I wouldn’t say it’s great or anything - it’s just really well made, well acted, and has just enough compelling mystery to keep watching.

Also having never played the games, I had the impression it was going to be another dark and gritty post apocalypse show, but it’s actually pretty funny - the vibe kind of reminds me of Zombieland, just not as zany.

Read the Westworld thread scott and I think you'll find that lots of people, in fact, did not like it xp

The later seasons especially were pretty terrible

I loved the first couple of seasons of Westworld, and could have theoretically enjoyed following them into the second phase of the show (the last couple seasons with Aaron Paul). But it just got too convoluted. A lot of high-tech Scooby Doo villains.

I loved the first couple of seasons of Westworld, and could have theoretically enjoyed following them into the second phase of the show (the last couple seasons with Aaron Paul). But it just got too convoluted. A lot of high-tech Scooby Doo villains.

it's kind of funny to spend $153 million on a tv show so it can look exactly like a video game

Baby Reindeer on Netflix is getting a bit of buzz but feels like it should be getting a lot more?

Anyway, it's deeply harrowing but very very good

The most shocking thing for me is that the lead actor is the actual guy it happened to.

I'm sure it's out there and I could find it, but will admit to being morbidly curious about who the rapist is.

or who the spoiler is. oh wait its aldo! SOME people are still watching you know.

It happens about 10 minutes into ep4 so not really way into it, and isn't actually the focus of the story at all (though it does play into the plot considerably) - so is it really a spoiler? Really?

i like to know nothing before i see something. but i realize being on the internet is fraught with peril. i didn't know the thing about the lead actor either. so now that's all i'm thinking about while i'm watching. i mean i knew something bad was going to happen to him but i didn't know what exactly. but its cool. i'll live.

(having said that, i've probably given away tons of plot points on here before....but that's why god made hypocrites.)

That isn't the bad thing that happens to him.

Sorry, I forget that people don't often read articles and news stories about shows (see Doctor Who threads passim).

okay i've seen the whole thing you can say whatever you want now!

that was intense.

definitely worth watching. should probably come with a boatload of trigger warnings. its scary in a very real way.

memorable too! those two leads should win every award. jesus. they really dug deep.

first episode of park chan-wook's the sympathizer on hbo was excellent, i thought (i have not read the book)

Just finished Blue Eye Samurai. Fucking great. Thanks for the recommendations upthread.

Definitely not one to watch with kids though as there's a fair amount of nudity and sex (as well as all the gore and violence)

yeah, Blue Eye Samurai is so good

Loved the first episode of The Sympathizer, thought they did a great job capturing the tone of the book

I'm unfamiliar with the book, but I liked the first episode a lot as well.

I watched the first episode of the Starz pirate show Black Sails, new to Netflix, because people were talking on Bluesky about how good it is, but at the end I realized I was watching a show about pirates and spiked it.

I don't think I could watch a serious pirate show after Our Flag Means Death.

that's kinda like how i feel after watching that funny viking show on netflix. that show is so funny. kinda ruins vikings for me.

Oh is that good? Norsemen?

i thought it was really funny.

Apple also has a pirate show that looks terrible.

also CBS has NCIS: Barbary Coast coming out

I finished Black Sails but it doesn't pay off enough for me to recommend it. And early seasons were mandated to have tons of unnecessary sex and nudity, like GoT. ymmv may vary on that

unnecessary sex and nudity

I do not understand this phrase.

I did say ymmv

Big non-surprise but Fallout officially renewed.

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/fallout-renewed-season-2-amazon-1235975879/

Anybody here fuck with Hazbin Hotel? I enjoyed the hell out of it. I heard about it from my middle schooler, who is probably a few years young for it, given the dark sex and drug content. And the level of sexual joking is probably 40% more than usually appeals to me. But it has very catchy, heartwarming songs, and a feel-good storyline.

Rushomancy has brought the show up on a couple of other threads, but I haven't seen anyone else talking about it.

I've heard that its humor is the kind of try-hard edgelordy stuff that's kept me at arm's distance from even sampling the pilot (which I believe is on YT).

I've never played "Fallout," but we've now watched two episodes of the show. It's ... OK. Good acting, solid FX. It's so self-consciously strange, though, that I can feel my wife debating whether to watch or cut n run in real time. I sense she'll sit through one more, and if episode three doesn't snag her, she may move on.

i'm a little torn about continuing as well. and i too have watched the first two episodes.

might just continue with The Expanse instead and go back to Fallout at a later date. things are getting good in season 2 of The Expanse.

i did take that little Baby Reindeer break and watched that quickly. thank god those episodes weren't 40+ minutes each.

is anyone else going to watch Baby Reindeer? i almost felt like starting a thread for it after watching. it gives you a lot to talk about.

Costas Mandylorian (Leee) at 11:38 18 Apr 24

I've heard that its humor is the kind of try-hard edgelordy stuff that's kept me at arm's distance from even sampling the pilot (which I believe is on YT).

I'm three episodes in scott xp

Kind of enjoying it but it's very uncomfortable (and excruciating) viewing at times

I like profanity and think it is often very funny, but at the same time, I rarely use it in real life and I'm also sometimes really conscious about its use in music and movies and whatnot. It often just seems so lazy to me, enlisted not even for shock value but as a placeholder for something much better or more clever.

"Kind of enjoying it but it's very uncomfortable (and excruciating) viewing at times"

oh i definitely squirmed in my seat. but it definitely has that forward momentum that makes you want to keep going. for something that is not a horror movie it gets to fear and panic in a way that a lot of horror movies never get to.