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    Fallout review: Video game adaptation is filled with anarchic comedy and cyberpunk chutzpah

    by Nick Hilton Apr 10, 2024 3 minutes
    Source: Amazon

    “This is the way the world ends,” wrote TS Eliot. “Not with a bang but a whimper.” Well, in the case of Bethesda’s celebrated video-game franchise – and now big-budget Amazon TV show – , any whimpering is preceded by of bangs. This is the nuclear war, initiated in an alternate reality in 2296, which looks like some sort of technologically advanced version of the 1960s, setting the scene for a post-apocalyptic (or mid-apocalyptic, for the pedants) tale of survival against the

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