Oct 31, 2026 · 50 min · 13 segments
Here is my complete deep-dive review of the first season of the Fallout Show. It starts with a short spoiler-free review and then dives into a spoiler-heavy comprehensive review of setting, writing…
The Fallout universe is set in an alternative timeline that diverged from our timeline somewhere in the 1950s or early 60s.
Unlike in our timeline, though, however, the style and architecture of the Fallout universe stuck to its 1950s roots.
Even as hundreds of years progressed, the future became what people in the 1950s imagined the future would be like.
It would have been really easy for the showrunners to just go to their local vintage shop and buy up a bunch of stuff and use that to stage the show.
But instead, the showrunners went right to the games for inspiration, and in cases that are far too numerous to count, faithfully reproduced so many aspects of this world that give it its unique style and flavor.
From boxed goods to appliances, billboards to posters, art and vending machines.
It's all straight from the game.
The Radiation King Radio.
The Radiation King television.
The cameras we find scattered across the wasteland.
Comic book characters like Grognak the Barbarian, which we learned from the show was turned into an animated TV show.
Bobbleheads, of course, bobbleheads.
Nuka-Cola, of course.
We see Nuka-Cola bottles everywhere.
We even get an extended hacking sequence.
Holotapes do appear, but they don't look like holotapes from the games.
Instead, these holotapes are video holotapes, which play entire movies.
sugar bombs, yum yum deviled eggs,
blamko mac and
cheese, Cram! Fancy lad snack cakes.
We get Stimpaks that function just like Stimpaks from the game.
The Fallout universe is set in an alternative timeline that diverged from our timeline somewhere in the 1950s or early 60s.
Unlike in our timeline, though, however, the style and architecture of the Fallout universe stuck to its 1950s roots.
Even as hundreds of years progressed, the future became what people in the 1950s imagined the future would be like.
It would have been really easy for the showrunners to just go to their local vintage shop and buy up a bunch of stuff and use that to stage the show.
But instead, the showrunners went right to the games for inspiration, and in cases that are far too numerous to count, faithfully reproduced so many aspects of this world that give it its unique style and flavor.
From boxed goods to appliances, billboards to posters, art and vending machines.
It's all straight from the game.
The Radiation King Radio.
The Radiation King television.
The cameras we find scattered across the wasteland.
Comic book characters like Grognak the Barbarian, which we learned from the show was turned into an animated TV show.
Bobbleheads, of course, bobbleheads.
Nuka-Cola, of course.
We see Nuka-Cola bottles everywhere.
We even get an extended hacking sequence.
Holotapes do appear, but they don't look like holotapes from the games.
Instead, these holotapes are video holotapes, which play entire movies.
sugar bombs, yum yum deviled eggs,
blamko mac and
cheese, Cram! Fancy lad snack cakes.
We get Stimpaks that function just like Stimpaks from the game.
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