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In Fallout, the Joke Is on Humanity
Not quite the raucous comedy it’s billed as, Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan’s heady new video-game adaptation is basically Westworld 2.0.
In Fallout, Prime Video’s new streaming adaptation of the popular Bethesda video-game franchise, those traits belong to The Ghoul, a noseless mutant played by Walton Goggins who haunts the postapocalyptic milieu in black western regalia. Another story line takes place in the period before the bombs fell, where we follow an actor named Cooper Howard, who is the pre-mutated version of The Ghoul, as he’s slowly drawn into the world of Vault-Tec, the corporation responsible for conceiving the vaults in question. HBO’s The Last of Us garnered critical acclaim for its story and performances, but comparatively speaking, it didn’t have to do all that much in terms of actual adaptation since the original Naughty Dog game was, in many ways, constructed to be interactive prestige television from the outset.
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