Séamas O'Reilly: Fallout is a videogame adaptation that leans into its ridiculousness

"...arguably the best compliment I can pay this adaptation is that it’s managed the same tightrope walk of tone and detail [as its inspiration] with aplomb..."

Walton Goggins as The Ghoul/Cooper Howard in Amazon's 'Fallout'.

Amazon’s Fallout begins with a blast, quite literally. 

Few shows would think to title their first episode ‘The End’ but it seems appropriate here, given that the climax of its introductory scene is a nuclear holocaust which just about destroys all human life on earth.