I thought Fury Road was fantastic (a rare film I went to see twice, the second time I rang up the then biggest iMax screen in the world repeatedly until they showed it again so I could see it in that format the second time), was critically acclaimed, nominated for a whole slew of awards including the biggest in the…

Well, as mentioned in other articles, it is what it is. There’s good news and bad news. This time I’ll just start with the good. Warner Bros still loves Miller despite there big tiff after Fury Road. It’s all water under the bridge otherwise Furiosa never would’ve happened. Warner Bros is also proud of how Furiosa…

Yeah it’s pretty rare in that it doesn’t tell you who the little girl in the visions are etc. it’s so disappointing that Tom Hardy has busied himself with those dreck Venom films. Dude has so much potential.

While I’m always game for more chase-battles with absurd apocalyptic hot rods, at no point during Fury Road did I think “I really need to know the origin of that dead kid hallucination and how Max went feral.” It was a great case of “show, don’t tell” that gives the audience all they need. You can imagine the details…

Wait a minute, hold up- If the Ghoul can one-shot power armor all this time, why didn’t he just do that in the firefight in Episode 2?? From the underwhelming Vault 31 mystery reveal to Vault-Tec being behind the bombs in the first place (wtf?), this finale didn’t work for me, brother. Moldaver’s plan to get to this…

*Never Go It Alone achievement unlocked*

I wondered a lot about this too. Also, who cleaned up vault 32? No one from 33 knew anything about it, and there’s currant no active people in 31. It’s not like the newly elected overseer in 33 cleaned up like a vault full of dead bodies by herself.

These reviews are great and very appreciated. I miss the time when AV Club reviewed more shows.

I love that when Lucy’s brother finds Bud-in-a-jar, he’s gotten hopelessly stuck in a corner. The entire Bud’s Buds plan, doomed by a bad turn if he hadn’t shown up! It ended on a cliffhanger, but I feel like we’re going to get another funny exchange between them at the start of the next season and he’s not just going…

In Fallout 4 one settlement is a mansion, where the owners survived in basement. All of them were ghoulefied, and the youngest son who apparently knew to expect this was initially stoked because he figured it meant they would all survive the post-nuclear world. However, while he retained his faculties, his family went…

So here’s my question - and if I missed some obvious tell, please do let me know.

My read was that she wasn’t necessarily feral, but had been basically so burned and half destroyed by the explosion that this was all that was left of her. Ghouls basically run on zombie logic, so if they don’t take care of themselves like Cooper obviously has, they physically degrade into a mess, but the radiation…

Best reaction from a friend: “I tried playing. I went the wrong way and got killed by some giant bug before I even had a weapon. Like, five times. I can’t stop watching the show.”

Two hypotheses: 1) there’s a wider spectrum of ghouls in the show universe than what the games have shown us; 2) we can presume Moldaver has had her captive since whenever she went feral (unlikely she just went out into the wild and found her now), so maybe she’s been unfed and wasting away to nothing. It would be…

Thanks for a nice set of recaps/reactions—some of the best and most actually thoughtful writing I’ve seen on this site in ages, and from someone who actually has history with the Fallout franchise, even.

pretty good show, man. lots of little things they can improve in season 2, but for a first season with that kind of baggage i think the team did a tremendous job.

And as a clearly feral ghoul she should be trying to eat everyone around her, not sit there and slowly grind around creepily.

And what’s up with Hank’s wife/Lucy’s mom? I get that she was ghoulified when Shady Sands was nuked, and that Moldaver has brought her there to torment Hank for his actions, but why does she look so decrepit? Shady Sands was nuked, like twenty years ago? She’s pretty young so far as ghouls go.

and, most pressingly, no Ron Perlman cameo. Really?!

Indeed RIP Rene Auberjonois. Fantastically funny in Benson and achingly earnest in The Patriot. Wish he was still around doing his thing.