It never completely vanished, but other genres have definitely received more attention than sci-fi until fairly recently.
Thankfully, these kinds of shows don’t seem to be going anywhere for the time being.
However, other platforms, such as Prime Video, are also following the same trend.
I’ve never watched them side by side, asFalloutseason 1 premiered just under a year afterSiloseason 1.
However, when they’re directly compared, I think the similarities betweenSiloandFalloutare impossible to miss.
On the other hand,Amazon took a very different approach when adaptingFallout.
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Whereas Hugh Howey wrote his novels as a series of serialized stories, all theFalloutgames are standalone narratives.
TheFalloutvideo gameswere used as the basis for the show.
The creative choice resulted in certainFalloutmoments from the show only making sense because of the games' rules.
Set 200 years after an apocalypse, Fallout follows residents of luxury shelters as they re-enter a post-nuclear world. Confronted with a bizarre and violent landscape, the series explores the stark contrasts between their sheltered existence and the harsh realities of the outside universe.
Sure, they’re not entirely dissimilar, but they’re not identical either.
The series delves into the complex social order within the silo and the mysteries surrounding their subterranean existence.
Set 200 years after an apocalypse, Fallout follows residents of luxury shelters as they re-enter a post-nuclear world. Confronted with a bizarre and violent landscape, the series explores the stark contrasts between their sheltered existence and the harsh realities of the outside universe.
