The first trailer for Fallout, the series adaptation of the video games, was promising. The second trailer is GREAT.
Featuring Ella Purnell and a LOT of Walton Goggins—as everything should—as both a normal guy and the post-apocalyptic Ghoul, Fallout looks incredible. I mean just the sheer aesthetic of it, spectacular apocalyptic aesthetics here. There are some game Easter eggs for anyone who cares, but more importantly, it looks like an interesting world unto itself within the parameters of the show.
It’s Los Angeles after a nuclear attack, with survivors split into camps, including the “vault dwellers”, descendants of the rich and connected who could afford to ride out the end of the world in bomb shelters. There are mutants, dogs, robots, everything you want in an apocalypse, plus Walton Goggins doing Walton Goggins things. There is also an excellent bit of Dale Dickey Business in this trailer, and a little dash of Kyle MacLachlan, as a treat.
On the eve of the Oscars, what I love most about Fallout is that Christopher Nolan said, “I am going to make a grand cinematic epic about the existential horrors of the nuclear age,” and Jonathan Nolan, vibrating at maximum younger sibling frequency, replied, “I’m gonna make a cool ass TV show about nuclear survivors hunting each other.” Just could not BE more younger sibling than that. Fallout doesn’t look depressing enough for the Emmys to take it seriously, but I would DIE if six months from now, Jonathan Nolan won an Emmy for this. It would be the ultimate younger sibling scene steal.
