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Positive:
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Mixed:
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Critic Reviews
The GuardianApr 11, 2024
The Daily BeastApr 10, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Like its inspiration, Fallout is a monumental achievement of sci-fi world-building, presenting an alternately horrifying and exhilarating vision of a United States held together by little more than duct tape and Wonder Glue, unflagging optimism and ultra-violent mercilessness. At once accessible and intricate, familiar and unique, it blends brutality, romance, intrigue and wide-eyed awe—and unites man, machine and mutant—to craft a mesmerizing fantasy of the end-times, and all the wild delirium that follows it.
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The PlaylistDec 16, 2025
Season 2 Review:
There’s no denying the depth; with countless titles within the world of “Fallout” from which to scrape material, it’s a complex story to tell, yet Season Two showrunners Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dwonet have succeeded in taking the reins from Season One’s Jonathan Nolan and continued to move “Fallout” right along seamlessly.
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Apr 10, 2024
Season 1 Review:
A bright and funny apocalypse filled with dark punchlines and bursts of ultra-violence, Fallout stands up there with The Last of Us among the best game adaptations ever made. Brilliantly constructed, its three distinct leads travel through cleverly linked storylines that build to a fantastic finale. Along the way, there’s a megaton of treats for long-term fans thanks to immaculate production design and attention to detail, but never at the expense of making this an ideal starting point for the uninitiated. It’s another special effort from Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, and easily earns a big thumbs up.
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Dec 16, 2025
Season 2 Review:
Both Parnell and Moten have settled comfortably into their roles, and the latter feels distinctly more natural as buttoned-up Maximus this time around. Goggins and MachLachlan are utter delights and Theroux's natural weirdness fits right into the ambiance of the series. .... If you can stomach all the splattered guts and noseless monsters, you won't be disappointed by the enrapturing story the series is starting to unwind.
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Apr 10, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The show takes the right risk in affording Lucy specificity as a character, and therefore a defined personality that can measure up to the wacky mayhem of the other weirdos she meets. The show’s clearly committed to being the definitive Fallout adaptation, a love letter to fans, no question, while still opening the vault door to welcome in just about everyone else brave enough to step inside.
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Apr 10, 2024
Dec 16, 2025LooperDec 16, 2025
Season 2 Review:
Some points in the last episode I watched left me with questions about whether certain cynical arguments were being put forth by the show itself or just the characters therein, so I'm not yet ready to make any declarative thematic statements about the season until I've watched it all. What I can say is they have me hooked, and even at its darkest, "Fallout" is still a fun time.
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SlashfilmDec 16, 2025
Season 2 Review:
It remains to be seen where exactly this is all heading, and whether "Fallout" can stick the landing. Still, if the first six episodes of season 2 are anything to go by, the show has earned our goodwill with a thrilling, hilarious, and visually stunning story worth sticking with.
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The TelegraphDec 16, 2025
Season 2 Review:
Where Fallout loses the thread is in its many subplots, which are only loosely related to Lucy’s pursuit of her bad dad, Hank. .... But things improve immensely whenever it’s just Goggins and Purnell as an R-rated version of The Mandalorian and Baby Yoda, wisecracking their way across the desert.
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ColliderDec 16, 2025
Apr 11, 2024
Season 1 Review:
You don’t need to have played the games, or lived through the Cold War, to appreciate Fallout as a television experience. When the final scene teased the location of what looks to be Season 2, the gamer in me cheered—I know exactly where they’re going. The television viewer in me rejoiced, as well. Another season? Okie dokey!
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Radio TimesApr 10, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Unfortunately, though, that writing does sometimes fall short, particularly in the more emotional moments. As is the case in a number of Jonathan Nolan’s big-screen productions, certain lines come off as unnatural, lacking humanity, which threatens to derail the stakes at times...That said, this isn’t necessarily here to bring the most emotionally gut-wrenching series of the year. It’s here to have fun, and in that regard, it’s a resounding success. We’re glad this one made it out of the vault – it’s been well worth the wait.
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EmpireApr 10, 2024
Apr 10, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Tonally, this series splits the difference between last year’s game-to-TV offerings “The Last of Us” and “Twisted Metal.” While it’s neither as somber as the former nor as madcap zany as the latter, “Fallout” mines an approach with room for both humor and pathos. With a raft of unfolding mysteries, protagonists we care about and a quest we want to see through to the end, “Fallout” is well situated to grow the loyal fan base that has kept the video game franchise going for 27 years.
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The Mercury NewsApr 10, 2024
Apr 10, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Its final episodes feature several exciting twists and reveals that reshape our understanding of the story we've been watching for eight episodes — but there's little real resolution to any of the ongoing character arcs, and in some ways this all feels like lead-up to a more thorough and philosophically complex Season 2.
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RogerEbert.comApr 10, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The willingness to break narrative predictability is admirable, but it kind of hurts the momentum, making the 8-episode season feel longer than it is. It also takes a long time for any performance but Goggins to make an impact. By the end, I liked what Purnell was doing. But this is really The Walton Goggins Show, through and through, to the point that it dips when he’s not on-screen.
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Dec 16, 2025
Season 2 Review:
When the show is cooking—when we’re with Purnell, MacLachlan, or either version of Goggins—it’s easy to be reminded of what was worth missing about this series in the year-plus since we last got new episodes. That push and pull of cynicism and idealism remains bracing, just as the similar war between the show’s comedic and horrific impulses keeps either side from dominating. When we don’t have those anchors, though, it’s easy to feel the show veering off the rails.
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