Fallout

I am yet to come across a show that makes me yearn for an era of music for which I have absolutely no familiarity with. The story starts of with a party. Some guy is playing cowboy accompanied by his daughter but with two friends in the background mocking him. Really sad scene with a high school like vibe to it. Really just a dad trying to hustle while his buddies ridicule him. 

Sometime in the sixties or thereabouts, you have in the house a group of wives watching an old TV set with a disturbing news story playing before their eyes. 

Then the audience is taken outside to witness a conversations between father and daughter. Daughter asks father about the tell tale signs of a nuclear explosion making reference to the cloud and the thumbs up sign. Apparently, the use of the thumb is a sign that helps you determine if the cloud you are seeing will be of a life threatening nature. From this scene the whole show is now set. You go back and forth watching people living in the aftermath of the big event in a subterranean refuge built and marketed and seemingly planned ages before. You are then taken through the lives of those who survived after almost two hundred years as they waited for the effects of the Nuclear Bomb to subside. Hence the title Fallout. 

There are different communities. Those who live underground and those who live on the top. There is a resistance and there are those who are fighting against them. There is truth and there is an alternative. There is a young lady who must navigate both these worlds. Watch as she adapts and how what she deals with shapes her life. The use of dark humor with a mix of well planned tracks makes for interesting viewing. The music is used in a sense as one would use chapters for different parts of a book. Quentin Tarantino tends to like using titles for parts of his movies, Fallout does the same except with the use of music. At first it seemed like there was a little too much to deal with with all the characters that were seemingly unrelated, but after a while it starts to make sense. Perhaps the most interesting suggestions in the series is a suggestion by one of the people in the early parts of the resistance that when the government subcontracts defense in the hands of private contractors who have profit at the heart of their operations, then war and destruction become inevitable and can even be encouraged.