The creators of Fallout want the show to have the game’s mix of silly and serious

/ The minds behind Amazon’s upcoming adaptation talk about nailing the franchise’s very particular postapocalyptic vibe.

By Andrew Webster, an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories.

Ella Purnell in Fallout. Image: Amazon

Fallout is a mixture of contradictions. In one moment, the games are dark and gruesome; in the next, silly and playful. So when it came time to adapt the series into a streaming show on Amazon, nailing that eclectic tone was key. “I think it’s very fundamental to what Fallout is,” says series co-creator and showrunner Geneva Robertson-Dworet, “this mix of weird

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