Amazon's Fallout TV Show: 10 Things Fans Need To See

There must be explosions.

Lots of explosions. Who thought that putting a portable nuclear fusion engine in a fast-moving vehicle would be anything but a bad idea? And yet, while it may not make much sense in a world like ours, where carbon-fuelled electricity and the internal combustion engine rules, in Fallout's alternative timeline, everything from TVs to trucks and refrigerators has a small nuclear reactor inside it, producing the electricity or other energy that it needs to move or keep those Salisbury Steaks cool.

In keeping with Fallout's alternate timeline, many of these items have a retro, Fifties sheen. The cars are all about spiky flashes, while the archaic television sets are small and resemble more the cathode ray tube variety rather than our efficient flat screen devices of today.

But it's those large vehicle-bound nuclear devices that present the biggest opportunity. If there's not an exploding car at some point in Amazon's Fallout TV show, it's a missed chance to present some radiation-infested pyrotechnics to viewers.