Items10The creator’s order
  1. 1Twisted Metal (2023)Twisted Metal (2023) 7.3/10 on IMDbFirst aired 27 Jul 2023A delivery driver's trip across a fractured America becomes a string of dangerous encounters with people who have made their own rules. Anthony Mackie and Stephanie Beatriz carry a profane action comedy whose fights are deliberately excessive. It is the most direct choice for Fallout's collision of…0
  2. 2Silo (2023)Silo (2023) 8.1/10 on IMDbFirst aired 4 May 2023Residents of a vast underground structure depend on an official account of the world outside, while an engineer starts finding reasons to question it. The pleasure is recognising how maintenance, hierarchy and restricted information work together. It is the closest companion to Fallout's vault…0
  3. 3Hello Tomorrow! (2023)Hello Tomorrow! (2023) 6.3/10 on IMDbFirst aired 16 Feb 2023Travelling salespeople offer customers a fresh start on the moon in a retro-futuristic America full of reassuring domestic technology. Billy Crudup makes the pitch seductive enough that wanting to believe becomes the central problem. The 2023 series is a slower, more melancholy choice than Fallout,…0
  4. 4Mrs. Davis (2023)Mrs. Davis (2023) 7.3/10 on IMDbFirst aired 20 Apr 2023A nun takes on an apparently benevolent all-purpose algorithm, turning resistance to an invisible system into a wildly physical quest. Betty Gilpin gives the escalating absurdity an emotional centre without making the premise behave politely. It is a good match for Fallout's willingness to place an…0
  5. 5BrainDead (2016)BrainDead (2016) 8.0/10 on IMDbFirst aired 13 Jun 2016A documentary-maker working in Washington discovers that an infestation offers a very literal explanation for political behaviour. The 2016 comic thriller turns institutional dysfunction into science-fiction grotesquerie, with musical recaps among its stranger pleasures. Mary Elizabeth Winstead…0
  6. 6Dead Set (2008)Dead Set (2008) 7.5/10 on IMDbFirst aired 27 Oct 2008A zombie outbreak reaches a television production whose contestants have been cut off from the outside world. Charlie Brooker's 2008 British miniseries makes the entertainment machine part of the horror, rather than a safe place from which to comment on it. The short run is a fierce choice for…0
  7. 7Doom Patrol (2019)Doom Patrol (2019) 7.7/10 on IMDbFirst aired 15 Feb 2019People left with extraordinary abilities and difficult bodies form an uneasy household that keeps being drawn into bizarre emergencies. The strangeness is lavish, but shame, control and the need to trust someone give it weight. Across four seasons, the comic-book series offers Fallout's appetite…0
  8. 8The Last Man on Earth (2015)The Last Man on Earth (2015) 7.4/10 on IMDbFirst aired 1 Mar 2015An apparently ideal chance to live without rules turns out to be a poor preparation for having to share a world again. Will Forte's survivor comedy makes each new arrangement vulnerable to vanity, dishonesty and the search for an easier life. It is a useful comic route from Fallout's contrast…0
  9. 93% (2016)3% (2016) 7.2/10 on IMDbFirst aired 25 Nov 2016Candidates from an impoverished majority compete for entry to a privileged society that presents exclusion as a fair test. The Brazilian series gives the selection process enough immediate suspense to make its ideology a practical problem for people inside it. It is a more earnest companion to…0
  10. 10Tribes of Europa (2021)Tribes of Europa (2021) 6.7/10 on IMDbFirst aired 19 Feb 2021Three siblings are separated among rival societies after Europe's collapse, exposing them to very different arrangements of loyalty and power. The German-led series is useful for Fallout viewers who enjoy moving between factions with incompatible accounts of how civilisation should work. It is more…0