Fallout Season 1 Review - 10 Ups & 2 Downs

Alongside its striking needle-drops and score, Fallout also sets one thing straight from the off; that for all its dark themes, high body counts and doomed characters, it sure can be fun to watch people shoot, maim and destroy each other. 

In fairness, the violence we see this season is nasty, often up close and personal, surprisingly bloody, and constantly fast-paced, but the show unleashes it with such style and, yes, catchy tunes, that it's always easily palatable. 

Throughout its eight-episode run, the season has giant mutated monsters threatening to tear people limb-from-limb, brutal massacres that explode from nowhere, gunfights of impeccable timing and graceful choreography, and all of it is so playful that you almost forget the brutality that's occurring until the aftermath slows everything down. 

Directors such as Jonathan Nolan, Clare Kilner and Wayne Yip are best at these action beats, injecting such flare into the sight of bloody carnage and war that it's a wonder the show's more serious moments are able to break through as memorably as they do. The apocalypse shouldn't be this fun.