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Fallout S1 E3, E4

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“The Head”

“The Ghouls”

Lots of things happening on the next two episodes of Fallout. I don’t want to recap everything, but, instead, I just want to give some of my thoughts.

I love Lucy. She has shown to be a remarkable survivor, facing off with all kinds of challenges. And who knew the Golden Rule could be used like that? Her coming out party as a bad ass at the end of episode four was excellent.

The Ghoul’s back story looks to be awesome. Seeing more about him by seeing some of the time of his life when he was an actor provided some nice specifics about this character.

Maximus is still my least favorite character in here and his absence in episode four was fine with me. Giving him a squire to play off, specifically the one they give him, should help him to develop more.

The soundtrack has been amazing. I love the variety of the music that they use to tell the story.

Lucy’s brother Norm, is giving me the Maximus from the Inhumans vibes. I don’t know if I am misreading the situation, but I really get some eventual evil from him. Maybe I’m incorrect. There is certainly machinatio0ns going on in the vault.

The idea that they are all trying to find Ben Linus’s head is funny. I guess Maximus currently has the head, but who knows where it goes next.

Lucy saving the Ghoul at the end…where will that lead?

This has been a ton of fun so far. The whole series is available on Amazon Prime.

Fallout S1 E1

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“The End”

I think the TV shows that are based on video games have been doing great recently. There was The Last of Us, and now we have a new video game series on Amazon Prime called Fallout.

I have not played the Fallout video game so I have no predetermined expectations for the corresponding show.

However I do have a love for the actor Kyle MacLachlan, who was Agent Cooper in Twin Peaks. I know that Michael Emerson, who played Ben on LOST, is coming next episode. Love these actors and it gives me an inspiration to watch the show.

The opening scene of the bombs being dropped on LA was devastating and kind of difficult to watch. It reminded me of the dark beginning of The Last of Us, which saw the death of Joel’s daughter Sarah.

We focus in on two main characters for most of the episode: Lucy and Maximus. Then, we end the episode meeting The Ghoul.

Lucy is played by Ella Purnell. Lucy is Kyle MacLachlan’s Hank’s daughter. Maximus is played by Aaron Clifton Moten. The Ghoul is played by the exquisite Walter Goggins.

Hank is taken from the bomb shelter by people from the surface world. This sends Lucy after him. I would expect her to come into contact with our other protagonists. Her story, for me, was more compelling than Maximus’s so the show does have some work to do for me to engage with his character. The Ghoul is just a cool cowboy and I want more from him.

All eight episodes have dropped on Amazon Prime and I will be working to watch the rest of these over the next few weeks. I do not expect a binge as the episodes are all around (or surpassing) the hour runtime.

Candy Cane Lane

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It is Christmastime and that means it is time for some movies that are targeted toward the family and may be sugary sweet and silly.

That is a very good description of the new film on Amazon Prime, Candy Cane Lane, starring Eddie Murphy.

According to IMDB, “A man (Eddie Murphy) is determined to win the neighborhood’s annual Christmas decorating contest. He makes a pact with an elf (Jillian Bell) to help him win–and the elf casts a spell that brings the 12 days of Christmas to life, which brings unexpected chaos to town.”

There is a lot of dumb, holiday fun in this hokey family film. Eddie Murphy is always great and he is in full Christmas mode here. There are actually several moments through this film where the movie avoids those pesky family film clichés. There are tropes that you expect, but he film does not go down the same path.

Jillian Bell is funny as the villainous Pepper. The mini figurines of the others who failed the task was clever. Nick Offerman, Chris Redd, and Robin Thede was fun as these little characters.

There was a lot of dumb in the story too, but I found it inoffensive and cute at times. I think if a family’s looking for a funny film to watch for Christmas, you could do worse than this.

3 stars