We Liked: Keeping Vault 33 Key to the Show
Another thing that would’ve been fairly easy: like a bunch of the Fallout games do, it would’ve been easy to have Lucy leave the vaults and never look back after the first episode. But the season keeps bringing us back to Vault 33, and particular to Moisés Arias as Norm, as we see him dig deeper and deeper into the ruling machinations of the Vault, and just how the raider attack blew open the mystery of its safety.
It’s not only great because we get to spend more time with the dwellers instead of simply just having most of them killed off in the opening episode and us forgetting about the survivors. But Norm’s surreptitious investigation of the Vault’s ruling council and the Overseer election process not only gives him a great arc over the season, but ultimately becomes a key spine the show builds its entire mystery around—making Vault 33 just as important to the rest of the show, even as it is by its very nature cut off from the rest of the narrative.
