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The new show Fallout is based on a hugely successful video game series

that's known for its sardonic, very dark comedic sensibility and

its violence.

It's set in the game's post-apocalyptic world and America divided into factions wrestling for control of an irradiated

wasteland. When one hopeful young woman steps out of the comfortable life she's known in an underground

vault, the world she's confronted with is harsh, brutal, merciless, and kind of funny.

It's rare that a video game adaptation works as well as this one does, and we're eager to talk about it.

I'm Glenn We're discussing fallout.

Joining me today's filmmaker pop culture critic and I heart radio producer

Joelle Monique, hey Joelle.

Hi Glenn.

Hey, also with this is Cultural Critic and journalist Soraya Nadia McDonald.

Hello Siraya.

Hello, hello.

So fallout takes place more than 200 years after bombs dropped in America and what remains

is a nuclear wasteland. But before the bombs some lucky few repaired to a series of vaults or retro future fallout shelters where they've waited for the moment to return to the surface. We follow three characters from different walks of this

post-apocalyptic life. There's Lucy an idealistic young woman born and raised in

Vault 33, she's played by Ella Pernell. My reproductive organs are intact,

my hygiene well maintained, and yet I have been

unable to find a suitable marriage partner, at least what I'm not related to, and we have rules

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