New TV series ‘Fallout’ brings post-apocalyptic video game universe to Prime Video

The new TV series ‘Fallout’ on Prime Video is based on a gargantuan video game universe of warring factions, world-changing stakes and irradiated monsters. Although the show has an original plot and viewers do not need to be experts on the source material, you may prefer to watch with some level of fluency. In an alternate-reality version of the not-too-distant future, America and China are the last global superpowers battling over dwindling natural resources. There are hostile takeovers, Cold War-like developments of dubious technologies and increasingly intense robot armor. By 2077, this war ends with both sides pressing their Big Red Buttons to launch nuclear weapons, ending human existence as we know it.