The Bizarre World Of Fallout Is More Relevant Than Ever
With the release of Season 1 of Prime Video’s Fallout TV series, those who don’t have experience with the games are finding out just how peculiar the world its set in is. While Fallout is set in the aftermath of a nuclear apocalypse that all but wiped out the majority of the United States of America, it’s not necessarily the USA you’re accustomed to.
Instead, Fallout is set against the backdrop of a nation that never moved on from its penchant for American exceptionalism, the idea that the United States stands tall and proud among other nations.
“The unique challenge of one of things about Fallout that’s so interesting is it’s not our world that ends exactly,” executive producer Jonathan Nolan explained. “It is this different kind of Eisenhower America that never had a Watergate, never had a Vietnam [war], never had a moment of self-reflection, and just kept powering through with nuclear powered toasters, and giant Cadillacs, and all of that.”