# Series you've recently watched, are now watching or have given up on **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [July 9, 2021, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108 "2021-07-09T17:50:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3992
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> [@Mahaloth](#): > > > [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > > > We watched the first two episodes of **Fallout** on Amazon Prime. It’s a lot of fun and has a bit of a Judge Dredd humor to it. I know very little about the video game it’s based on but the premise of a post apocalypse that began in the 1950’s provides for some really cool design choices. > > The best decision they made is that the show is just in the setting of the games, but it a new story. Note: I think I saw 2077 on a school chalkboard in the episode which indicates the bombs went off in some kind of alternate 2077(there was a mushroom cloud next to the year). > > I’ve played all the games and honestly, I don’t know what actual year the bombs went off. I know robots already existed, which you do sort of see in the show’s opening as well. It was some kind of weird alternate 1950’s-future. I’m not an expert on the Fallout game canon, but my understanding is that in the alternate universe, the ‘promise’ of atomic energy was embraced post-WWII and the ensuing future by 2077 became the retro-futuristic version of 50s utopic visions of the future. Think an atomic-powered Disneyesque ‘Tomorrowland’ (up until that whole nasty nuclear war business, at least). That’s why you have old-fashioned looking vehicles and TV sets alongside robots. I think @Smapti said it very well in one of the Fallout threads: > [@Fallout Episode 2: The Target](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-episode-2-the-target/1000137/10): > > Fallout is, at its heart, a dark parody of American exceptionalism. “Absolute dumbass” is exactly the type of wastelander that should flourish in this setting. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108)._