The original post: /r/television by /u/MercyPlainAndTall on 2026-02-26 01:01:43+00:00.
A little late to the party, I know, but…
Great acting, extraordinary production value, fun music, and an absolutely disjointed boring mess. By the last three episodes I found myself completely checked out. I was getting up to do chores in the middle of, what I assume, were supposed to be crucial scenes.
I think it really boiled down to the over reliance on flashbacks to do the legwork in the storytelling, as well as the insistence on returning to the absolutely stagnant vault storyline. Fallout is a huge and expansive universe with so many threads to pull on but it feels like they completely lost sight of the fact that Lucy and the Ghoul were the true engine of the show’s drama.
I never understood people who fast forwarded through certain tv storylines until I was forced to sit through the “water crisis” plot line. No amount of “payoff” could make it worth the snore fest every single scene was.
This is what happens when writers are more concerned with building towards some “big” finale than creating an enjoyable engrossing experience every episode.