Colin Martin

The laziest, most unlikable, terribly acted "hurr durr i see things i recognize from fallout 3 and 4 that means it must be good" I feel bad being tied in with the people screeching about the violence or calling it some nebulous, undefined concept of "woke". It isn't, that's a nonsense term of divisive, pointless politics and the show fails spectacularly on its own merits. The violence makes sense, the game is inherently gory as a joke. There has always been a character trait called "bloody mess". The violence was always intentional from fallout 1 onward. The sex was too. Fallout 2 let you do some truly nasty things. But the reason they're wrong here is because they're not being done ironically. There's no humor or subversion behind the violence or sex. No narrative on the realities of the world against the hopefulness of the prewar years. Dialogue was literally the point of fallout. I know, if you started with 3, 4, even new vegas (great but let's be honest, 1 and 2 were defined by their dialogue) you might not understand that, but this fails so spectacularly. Dogmeat is a malinois. No ron perlman. Sets are cheap Acting is awful Writing is nonsense The attention to detail that makes fallout so incredible is agonizingly bad. Fallout has always been about an INSANE attention to detail of mixing 1950s postwar positivity and retro futurism with gritty post apocalypse and in the real games, rebuilding civilization. Wrong things from modern day lazily slapped in with not a care in the world as to attention to detail. Clearly nobody working on this cared or did any research at all beyond the most superficial brand recognition garbage or plot details yanked from wikipedia plot summaries. For God's sakes, they make a huge important detail of the main character signing something using a fountain pen. But didn't care enough to get a period correct pen, instead getting $20 japanese pilot metropolitan, which has a super distinctly designed nib that stands out very obviously in the hyper zoomed in shot... and was introduced in about 2015. The makers of this abomination obviously do not care whatsoever about this world. Doesn't follow any continuity of any plots or themes from the setting (bottle caps arent used at that point in time in fallout, they use currency, the brotherhood of steel does not have airships and is not a machine cult like the adeptus mechanicus. The enclave is the one with vertibirds, vaults are not linked, basically all vaults have opened by now, there are a LOT more ghouls than 1, ghouls are not bulletproof, yao guais are not in california, etc, etc.) Main plot quickly just reveals it was stolen wholesale from fallout 1 literally. To the central detail. None of the clever satire expected from fallout Not funny Awful characters Horrendous soundtrack Horrible mixing I have correctly guessed every single fallout and tv trope plot twist with 100% accuracy. Woody harrelson's 45 seconds on screen was the best part of this entire waste of time. Dude might have actually researched a role, he stands EXACTLY like one of the 2d npc sprites from 1 and 2 This was offensively horrible not just as a fallout setting fan, but as a fan of good writing, music, setting and character development. I haven't hated a series this much in a long time. All it tells me is how beyond saving media has become if irredeemable trash like this can be so highly reviewed. This is one of the most abjectly shameless cash grabs i have seen in television in 30 years. Nobody should like this lazy, braindead trash. Shame on y'all. Get some standards already..

i mean, tim curry is a literal impossible act to follow. but this two part remake did it. i dont generally love nor hate horror movies, i dont like the torture porn slasher, but these were both restrained and limited their use of the boring generic jumpscare. honestly, this was more of a horror/coming of age film, than a slasher. there was one annoyingly predictable moment in it but for a horror film, thats kind of impressive. it balanced tension with levity and gave plenty of room for the characters to all feel well rounded and developed. no "least characterized guy dies" moments. and the ending is a genuine, hand on heart chef's kiss perfect ending. the best horror movie ending i've ever seen, one of the top ten film endings in general. super satisfying. for someone who doesnt like the "people are the real monster" tropes of saw and hostel, but likes a nice tense monster horrror like alien that focuses on the characters, the world, and those interactions, this series is a must watch.