Day 3,817: One Day Guest Star

We started Fallout tonight. Watched the first two episodes. It’s fun. Great cold open, actually. Like, very good. I think the tone of the show is a bit up and down—I get it, the game is very gallows humor, it is the end of the world, after all, so it’s not that I dislike the idea of the show matching that kind of glib humor—it just doesn’t always land. More often than not, it doesn’t, actually. And the pacing is off. Too much too fast. Robs us a bit of meeting and falling in love with the charac...