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It’s not that the season has any weak links in the cast — it doesn’t — but Goggins’s performance is so strong, and the Ghoul’s story line so expanded, that few others really feel like they are meeting him at his level. .... Fallout feels increasingly indebted to that previous series [Westworld] in ways that makes me worry it could sooner, rather than later, become so convoluted and so dense that it loses sight of its original animating questions. .... How Fallout chooses to end its second season, with a third already confirmed, will do a lot to affirm or deny these parallels.
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As great as Goggins and Theroux are in these long stretches of the show, especially the sixth episode, it feels like it makes for a show that lacks direction.
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With all of these subplots warring for screen-time, plus the fact that our main characters are waylaid multiple times on the way to New Vegas, one word is cemented in my mind that defines Fallout season 2’s first three episodes: meandering. That’s not to say that there isn’t some entertaining stuff along the way.
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Season 2 is arduous in a way that bucks against its black-comic vibes. Chaos, though, is where “Fallout” thrives, and what we get of it works pretty well — especially in the form of our mysterious new antagonist played by Justin Theroux.
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Parts of the show are too silly to care about at all. Parts are oppressively glum. And every now and then — almost always involving Goggins — it gets the balance just right.
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