That chicken never answered a craigslist ad ever again

The thing Lucy used to inject herself with "videogame health" is called a Stimpak.

The one guy said "Pinko" which is an old slang for Communist.

The Ghoul definitely has the "Bloody Mess" perk. 😂

In the Fallout universe, the transistor was never invented, instead everything went towards nuclear energy. In the games, the vaults are singular, 31/32/33 being connected is new to the series.

The character "Betty" is played by Leslie Uggams. She been around a long time but recently she played the old blind lady in the "Dead Pool" movies.

At the beginning of “The End”, everyone at the party was facing away from the windows and someone was walking around taking photographs using a flashbulb. This is why I believe no one noticed the initial bomb going off.

Unlike The Last Of Us, Fallout isn't adapting an existing storyline, but using the setting. That's a VERY smart move, as it means the creators won't be bombarded by people telling them 'Um, actually, it should be like THIS'.

The weapon that shot a doll leg was called a “Junk Jet”. A weapon in the games that shoots, well “junk” as its ammunition.

“i do this shit for the love of the game” 😂👍

He said "Pinko" about Cooper -- "Pinko" was a slur used in the 1950's/60's to describe suspected communist sympathizers.

In Fallout, the microprocessor was never invented, but as you said, technology using nuclear power became much more advanced. The conflict between the West and "communists" a la the McCarthy Era never went away (though China became the big enemy). Society was going through a "retro" 1950s era fashion craze when the "Great War" started, on October 23, 2077 and that is why you see a 50's vibe. The music is also retro 1950s and earlier music, a fad that started in the 2070s when the 50's aesthetic took hold.

1:53 "Fallout 1 and 2 ... Those came out a LONG time ago" -- oof! I have fond memories of playing both 😆

As others have mentioned, the time before the bombs is a retro futurist alternate timeline - the year of the bombs is 2077, but they have developed some technologies (e.g. the household robots and power armor) and not others (e.g. black & white TV) in a culture more-or-less frozen around 1960ish. One way to think of it is how a person in 1960 might imagine 2077.

I really appreciate that this show takes the source material seriously. It nails the tongue-in-cheek, retro kitsch tone and gory ultraviolence, but never winks at the audience or apologizes for being based on a video game. In fact, Fallout fully embraces the game logic of how things work, like Stimpacks being able to instantly heal grievous wounds, or how important characters will conveniently cross paths, despite the vast desolation of the Wasteland.

The dad also is Paul Atretis in the OG Dune. So excited for yall to be reacting to this :)

13:48 The Stern look of a woman realizing she needs to check the back sides of her curtains

Everyone says it, but the leading lady for this series has gorgeous eyes and they are so expressive. They hit the feel of the Fallout world on the head too.

By the way, it is confirmed that this show is canon with the games. The vaults 31, 32 and 33 are the only vaults we know that are interconnected. So this is new to us gamers also.

I love the opening scene. The subtle thing they do before the first nukes hit is show a lot of camera flashes during the party. That way when the nuke hits it's easy to dismiss the flash.

I read a theory that the huge bag the squires carry for the Brotherhood Knights is an inside joke about the F3 and F4 games, and how you can offload all your heavy gear to your NPC companion to carry for you.

The term you're looking for is "alternate history" setting. Fallout takes place in a universe where the transistor or the use of integrated circuits was not really fundamental in advancing technology, so that's why tech looks like they're stuck in the 50s/60s. They also rely a lot on nuclear power. That's why the world has that type of aesthetic. In regards to the vaults this is a unique setting. Vaults 31, 32 and 33 are the only vaults that are connected to each other. All the other ones are independent from each other. This show was made in such a way that the world of Fallout was recreated as faithfully as possible, to the point where lots of items, weapons and armors are 3D printed directly from the game files provided by Bethesda. The story does in fact take place after all of the games, but you see elements of each in the episodes. They don't really go out of their way to explain a lot, so having knowledge from the games helps. TBR, feel free to "spoil" stuff. Nothing you could say regarding the games could spoil the story. It's its own unique story and anything you might recognize just helps the worldbuilding. There's only 1 thing I would worry about and that's the true purpose and nature of the vaults, but I'll let the show go over that as you progress through the episodes. Have fun.

Her Dad was in the old Dune movie.

Yes, this show is the first, and only (I believe) showing 3 interconnected vaults. Also, it is the first time you see non-feral ghouls ingesting or inhaling a chemical to "supposedly" keep them from going feral. The whole thing in the games are the choices that you have to make whether they are morally right, morally wrong, or morally ambiguous, which is what they tried to depict in this show. Did you recognize Betty? She plays Blind Al in Deadpool, and Honcho played Bubba in Forest Gump. You are correct, some short years after WWII the fallout universe diverged from "our" future making it what is called retro-futuristic. Back in the 1950s and 1960s there were lots of magazines with pictures and stories of what "they" thought future cars, homes, and appliances would look like. In the Fallout universe the people and technology relatively stayed in that decade's time period. The microchip hadn't been developed until just before the "great war" of 2077 so most electronics or appliances ran through vacuum tubes and fusion (nuclear/atomic) power. The Fallout universe timeline: The Great War in the year 2077 Fallout 76 in the year 2102 (even though the game itself came out after Fallout 4) Fallout in the year 2161 Fallout 2 in the year 2241 Fallout 3 in the year 2277 Fallout New Vegas in the year 2281 Fallout 4 in the year 2287 Fallout TV series in the year 2296-97

Lucy's husband's name was Monty, so ya got to see the "Full Monty". 😁

In the Fallout universe the bombs fell October 23, 2077 Saturday morning. The first nuke hit the east coast at 945am and the west coast right after. For 2 hours bombs continuously fell on the US. One can only imagine the hell on Earth those 2 hours must've felt and looked like. Although the show changed the time of the bombing, still the same day just later on in the day, it still did amazing in capturing the feel and atmosphere of the games.

The music in the show is also the music from the games. As other's have mentioned Fallout is Retro Futurism, which means it's what the people of the past thought the future would look like. Such as those old "The city of tomorrow" displays they use to have predicting what things would look like. You can see multiple examples of it if you look back in history and what the people thought the future would be. Odds are even our depictions of the future will seem extremely retro when looked back on by future generations. Kinda like old 80s movies such as Back to the Future 2's future looks retro because it just projects 80s fashion, artistic design, and culture into our present day but was the "future" at the time the movie came out.

I also thought on first watch that they said "we've given you a name... Food", and thought maybe because he came out of that fridge, lol

The Fallout timeline is different from ours basically from WW2. At the end of WW2, Russia never became the world power they did in reality. China, instead, was the Communist world power. Other differences were that the transistor wasn't invented until much later and then no one really cared about them so that's why you see everything tube based. Also, after WW2, everybody went nuclear powered everything... nuclear powered cars, robots, etc. The style, aesthetic, etc. got 'stuck' in the 1950s... that's why everything looks like the 1950s version of what they thought the future would look like, even though this episode is set in 2077. The bombs dropped in 2077 (which is what you see the start of at the start of the episode). Over about two hours, thousands of them were dropped all over the world. Before that, countries were fighting over resources as they were running out (or becoming very difficult to extract). The USA had already annexed Canada and Mexico. China had invaded Alaska (which you can fight in Alaska in a simulator you find in the game... it's the DLC for Fallout 3, Operation: Anchorage) and Cooper was talking about serving in the Marines in Alaska for some of that. At the start of this episode, you hear the radio news guy saying that the President of the USA's location was unknown (you can find out about that in the game lore) and the weather guy on TV was saying that he wasn't comfortable talking about the weather there in Los Angeles when he didn't know if there would be a next week. The number of bombs dropped wreaked havoc all over the world... climate changes, even causing geographical changes (triggering earthquakes, etc.)

6:40 - a lot of ppl ask this question, the answer is: inside the living room someone is taking pictures w/ a flash camera, you can see it going off in the scene before and it is very bright, that and everyone has their backs turned to the window. 30:18 - "the ghoul" titlecard along w/ "maximus" and "lucy", call back to "The Good, The Bad, and The ugly" and it's similar title cards, and some foreshadowing. In chronological order of apperance of title cards: Lucy=good , maximus= bad, ghoul= ugly.

You should check out the tv show Justified, starring Timothy Olyphant and Walton Goggins.

Fallout 1 and 2 vet here. I still have F2 installed to this day.

The Ink Spots have a bunch of songs in the Fallout soundtrack. Had never heard of them before but they have some very catchy tunes. The soundtrack is amazing.

I found it fascinating how the girl looks exactly like a humanized version of the protagonist from Fall out 3. The technology is called Atompunk; like Steampunk, but 1950s futurism. The makers of the show clearly took the time to appreciate the world to ensure it was true in both spirit and tone to the video game. Both a depressing post apocalypse, but also a dark humourous look at the same.

I really like how they nailed the _mood_ of the Fallout universe: that mix of tongue-in-cheek dark comedy, satire, and ultra-violence; with a constant balance between hope for the future (the ability of humanity to survive the worst) and depressing fatalism (we see from top to bottom how awful humans can be to each other).

I am so with you about fusion cores in the game....I was so worried, I'd just hoard them being like "I'll use the armor later" and never did..and I'd end the game with 100+ fusion cores. I will continue my comment later..

"Waltor" goggins and the lead hunter after him were in Justified together. great duo.

21:19 Not 219 days, but 219 YEARS later.

Every single reaction video I have watched (and i've watched tons) you have broken the cycle of the line "and without further adieu." I was going insane. I'm not kidding you that everyone says that to introduce the content. It's a trend that I feel like i'm the only one who is noticing lol

As Ken Macleod put it in Cassini Division "..They're charmingly casual with nukes"

It's Walton Goggins and hes great in everything. The Righteous Gemstones, Justified, Vice Principals, etc. I remember him from way back in the day guest starring on a show called In the Heat of the Night

Fallouts tech development was a bit different to ours basically in our timeline we invented the transistor in 1947 allowing us to make everything digital and making electronics easier to miniaturize. Fallout didn't develop the transistor until the 2060's and instead relied on vacuum tubes and more analogue technology. In our timeline we pushed back hard on nuclear science and development while in Fallout they leaned into it and as a result unlocked things like nuclear fusion.

"I thought they called him Food" 🤣🤣

@32:00 My explanation for the setting is simply, Fallout created a future that looks like people in the 1950s imagined it might look like. Of course you can explain it with splitting timelines and such, but IMHO that is already overthinking the scenario.

Walton Goggins, from the Shield, Major League III, and House of 1000 corpses. Great actor

I describe Fallout as a post-apocalyptic America by way of 1950s futurism. It's not really important to ask why the 1950s never ended for Fallout for the same reason we don't ask why the 1980s never ended in Alien or why the 2000s never ended in the Matrix. You could imagine any Fallout story being in a scifi pulp magazine bought at the corner store or the news stand. The hyperviolence of the Fallout world is what makes it modern.

Every Episode is Amazing.

The projector film melting is what it really looked like in old school projectors, when the feed got jammed, and the bulb burned the film. Most of our older films in school we would watch, had a few missing bits, where it had melted, then they taped it back together after cutting the melted bit out. Its cool that they not only made it look exactly like that, but also used it in that way, to show chaos.

15:34 What Lucy stabs herself with is known in the Fallout games as a Stimpak, Stimpaks are basically shots filled with a mixture of healing agents, stimulants, antiseptic, blood, and steel, they’re fully capable of healing all to some physical injures (I say all to some because some injures require more than one Stimpak.) these are one of many chems, short for chemicals, you can find…these various chems include Mentats, a pre-War "party-drug" originally developed by Med-Tek, an in game company, for medical purposes, Buffout, a "sports-enhancement" drug popularized by pre-war athletes, Psycho, a combat-enhancement drug developed at the behest of General Chase, that’s something that happens post-war, Med-X, a painkiller found in many hospitals in game, and Rad-X, a preventive medication to be taken before exposure to radiation, when you take Rad-X in game it reduces the total amount of radiation you receive and bolsters your body’s own Radiation Resistance.

Feels like it's been ages i watched your videos. Either it's been movies i haven't seen or haven't been interested in. Glad you're watching this show! Walton Goggins is one of my favorite actors and now im a fan of Ella Purnell as well!

The camera in the house covered the flash.

I appreciate you not revealing spoilers!! I really want to play the games and I hate spoilers. I actually researched the show before watching to be sure it wouldn't spoil the games. Same reason I won't watch The Last of Us show yet - I read there are spoilers to the games.

I know nothing of the videogames and went into this totally blind and i loved it. Its a truly terrific show and behind last of us as best videogame show adaptation for me. btw i love the way you guys interact with each other even during the film. You treat each other so kindly and respectfully. You guys are great to watch. So wholesome especially with the new baby making it all complete lol!

The year that the opening scene party takes place in is 2077. You can kinda think of it like this. The Fallout universe is as if someone in the 1950s had tried to imagine the future, predicting a nuclear apocalypse a hundred or so years in the future, and then the bunker survivors, a couple of centuries after that. So, the idea of silicon computer chips doesn't really exist in that timeline (kinda like a film like Alien has clearly late 70s computers but is set way in the future). Anachronistic stuff because the person creating the idea had only their current experience to riff off of

lol I really feel you with that “I needed to delete league of legends” comment 😂.

In the Fallout timeline, the transistor was never invented so the tech timeline diverged in the 1950’s.

The Fallout series has been building lore since the 90's when the first game came out,(Not Fallout but Wasteland), but the last four (3, New Vegas, 4, and 76), have upped the amount of lore to full emersion.

HELL YEAH!! THIS SHOW IS FUCKING INSANE! Please Enjoy 😁

It's a type of retro futurism. Even the architecture is kinda art deco and streamline moderne. Sort of how the future was imagined from a forties or fifties perspective, hence the music and style. Lucy is played by Ella Purnell, who also played mean-girl-with-a-heart Jackie in the criminally underwatched _Yellowjackets_ .

I was the same way, with the power armor. Afraid of running out of fusion cores. Rarely ever used the power armor. Probably should have more often.

In the games, there were no connected vaults.

In this world, they had atomic power, but the transistor never was explaining why everything is so big.

"It there a Fallout 1 and 2?" -- "Yeah, but those came out a long time ago." Oof. I felt that in my old bones. I must have put more than a hundred hours into Fallout 1 back in '97.

This takes place in the general area that F1, F2, and F:NV are set in (but especially F1). It's over 100 years after F1 and about 10 years (IIRC) after F4. The starting scene is in October of 2077. The Fallout universe splits from our timeline after WWII. Technology is based around atomic energy and electronics are still largely run by vacuum tubes instead of transistors. The culture of the USA is stuck in the 1950s, hence the clothes, music, etc. in the pre-war scenes of the show.

“Ruined those pickles.” Lol

Such a stellar series, and I already can't wait for season 2! You guys are going to enjoy this journey! I'm hoping the production quality for a Bioshock movie could be similar, but I don't want a saturation of retrofuturistic video game movies.

Man, this show is just going to make you want to jump DEEP into the Fallout games. It did with me!

Also speaking of the other video game shows you've watched and enjoyed, the actress who plays Lucy is also the voice actress for Jinx in Arcane. She's killing it being apart of some amazing video game adaptations.

If you guys want to check out a hidden gem for Kyle MacLachlan (Lucy's Dad) I suggest watching The Hidden (1987) I don't think you'll regret it. I'm huge Fallout fan and this series does not disappoint! can't wait to see the rest of your reactions!

It's funny that Samantha at the beginning mentions "Fallout Shelter" since that's the name of another game in the series (It's one of those games that can run as a phone app). You're basically running a Vault and making various decisions in how to grow it. Also, there are now board game spinoffs of the games (both regular Fallout and Fallout Shelter). In Fallout 3 you could come across other vaults, but they were generally really screwed up somehow. The gun that shot a doll leg is a "Junk Jet" which is gun that uses junk as ammo.

The bombs dropped on October 23, 2077 (easy for me to remember, as it's my hubby's birthday), so that poor kid (Roy) had the best worst birthday ever. ETA: normally, we don't go back to the vaults, so that would be a nice surprise. Also, since the beginning, I was the player that read every note, every computer entry, and it always paid off. There are so many stories in Fallout, some just told by the corpses left behind.

At the beginning of Lucy's introduction, where she is listing her skills, this is basically the in-universe version of the character-creator for a videogame. Lucy has a good spread of stats, but mostly in science, small arms and intelligence. The Ghoul would be charisma and OP weapon handling stats ;-)

Each vault had a different outcome. In itself was a experiment. That much time trapped can drive some people crazy.

Feel like I'm having one of those Mandela Effect moments. I swore it was Walter Goggins and I checked. Son of a gun! Walton! What the?

You guys should absolutely check out Justified

War, war never changes...

Glad you feeling better TBR.

The big first clue that they were raiders is Monty's accent. He wouldn't have a different accent if he grew up in the vault with the others.

I would love a Die Hard / Fallout connection series. Lucy McClane from Fallout is really John McLane's daughter from Die Hard. 😜 She and Cooper Howard get to fight terrorists who want to explode a nuclear weapon in a large city. Just a thought..........😀

The transistor wasn't invented, and don't forget there's a radio station for each game that are all great.

The most disturbing part to me is when the dad drowned Monty in the barrel of pickles! he could’ve just keep using the shovel to beat him to death. why destroy that big barrel of wonderful, salty, juicy pickles! could’ve went with their hamburgers, chicken salad, hotdogs could’ve made a hole in the middle and put some Kool-Aid in it…

Thats the beauty of it, nobody indeed saw that because the dad was running around with the camera the whole day taking photos, so even if they noticed the flash, they filed it under 'birthday photos'

The music is definitely 40s 50s American Jazz rock r & b .... I played Fallout 4 and Fallout 76.... many hundreds of hours on Xbox. I feel the TV series did an outstanding job working in main parts of the game while keeping a storyline of its own. You guys are in for a wild ride... can't wait too watch you both experience the rest of season 1

Lucy aka Ella Purnell is the star of "Yellowjackets". I think it's genius casting her and Benjamin Linus from "Lost" together in this because both "Yellowjackets" and "Lost" get compared to each other a lot because they're both about an ensemble cast surviving in an isolated setting and they both play a villain (kind of). Michael Emerson is obviously a villain in Lost, but Jackie I mean Lucy is the leader who's arc changes.

The cool aesthetic is called atomicpunk, a retrofuturistic setting influenced by US post-war culture of the 40s and 50s. It often uses the Populuxe and Raygun Gothic visual styles. Think Mars Attacks!, The Incredibles, or the game Atomic Heart. Other popular retrofuturistic movements are steampunk aka neo-Victorianism (like Arcane tv show, Wild Wild West, or Bioshock Infinite), dieselpunk (think of Mad Max films, Wolfenstein games, or Bioshock 1 & 2), and the mega popular cyberpunk (like Bladerunner, The Matrix, Cyberpunk 2077). Look up retrofuturism or atompunk if it seems interesting.

Speaking of all the video game to show adaptations am I the only one who thinks Heavy Rain would make a great psychological crime/thriller show?

Thank you so much for doing this series! So looking forward to all the episodes! :D

Lucy’s Dad was in the show, Twin Peaks. Cult classic of the early 90s, and recently had a sequel season released as well.

We have given you a name, food. Nah, that got me too 😂. *Lol*

The year the bombs dropped is 2077, so at the start at the kids party this is 2077. Technology has dramatically progressed but culturally it has stayed the same as the 1950s, so fashion, design, architecture etc all has a heavy retro-futurist 1950s vibe. Oil has become scarce so there has been a move to nuclear power. The year Lucy inhabits is 2296 - 219 years after the Great War of 2077, which killed the vast majority of humanity in a nuclear holocaust.

If you two ever did a spin off video game run through I’d be super happy! Who knows perhaps Samantha would enjoy some of the great rpgs

well, this is a nice surprise. i hope Sam is feeling better!

Since you haven't played Fallout 1,2 and New Vegas, the West Coast Brotherhood of Steel are a little different than the East Coast that you are familiar with. The West Coast is more like a quasi-religious paramilitary order which is why you see a lot of religious aspects on the tv show than what you see in Fallout 3 and 4. The BOS originated on the West Coast, they came about the day before the war happened. US Captain Roger Maxson and those under him mutinied against the US government for reasons. 😉 Excellent tv series, I'm a die hard Fallout fan and was very skeptical about this show. It didn't disappoint me. Each episode keeps drawing you in to want to watch the next one ASAP

The airship is the prydwen, which is in fallout 4. Doesn’t say which is the cannon ending but clearly BOS Survives.

I rarely like series, but I got hooked right away. Best of 2024, for sure!

Bullet point explanation of the world: Our world history up to WW2 Alternate history after WW2 50's retrofuturistic world up to 2077 (basically how people from the 50's imagined the world after 2000, Fallout is really pulpy on purpose, a lot of 50's sci-fi b-movie aesthetics) Bombs fall in 2077, Mad Max post-apocalyptic world on the ruins of the 50's retrofuturistic one "Current time" (almost 2300) is post-post-apocalypse, people have started building society and forming factions and governments again

So no spoilers but some lore, in fallout 1 you encounter a small town called Shady Sands and help them develop. In fallout 2 shady sands becomes a larger city and you help them again as a decendant of the character from the first game. That is all...

I'm late to the TV show too, we'll take this ride together. I have to say the show looks good, but I do see problems, nitpicky type problems.

Oh, if you enjoyed the storytelling in Fallout 3 and 4, you should definitely revisit and have a go at Fallout New Vegas - mechanically the game engine is a bit creaky - but it's a masterpiece in storytelling.

its an alternate timeline based on the atomic future. Atomic energy is commonplace, which explains energy and powers existence centuries later. Gotta look at Lucy's part here as being your intro in a game. Something happens, you leave your starting area wounded, find and learn what a stimpack does (regenative properties, so literally heals wounds) and then makes her way to a looted armory with only a handful of rounds and low powered options left. Then the door opens to show this dramatic cut scene. They even kept the trope of being confined as you watch someone you love die or get taken, which then triggers you mission to leave the vault. It's a perfect intro.