We Liked: The Irreverent Tone (Mostly)
Fallout is not necessarily a goofy show; there are definitely moments where it pokes a lot of fun at itself and its characters, and sometimes, especially early on, it plays its hand a little too hard when it comes to its humor. It’s an inspired choice, but a surprising one, that the vast majority of the dialogue we hear through the imposing filter of the Brotherhood of Steel’s power-armor suits is mostly for shenanigans or characters stringing chains of expletives together. But Fallout’s casually dark approach to the absurdity of the world created in its apocalypse is ultimately a compelling one. The show eventually gives way to a more serious tones the more we learn about its world and mysteries, but it never stops having a sense of gallows humor—making its eventual critiques of the capitalistic forces that have shaped Fallout’s universe into what it is have a nice bit of bite to them.
