Season 2 of The Responder and Martin Freeman is proving he's a hell of a versatile actor. Although he does the desperate, on-the-edge cop to a tee, his comedy chops show through in a wicked little vein of black humour too.

@davyK

You see your referencing a lot of stuff that I'm not aware of, Cursed Earth et al. I need to look that one up obviously.

But Fallout is a gaming series that goes back twenty-five years + and, The Last of Us withstanding, I don't think there's been a more faithful videogame adaptation to small-screen than this.

Bethesda even supplied them with all their original artwork, and the series creators 3D-printed them all out - everything you see, from the picket fences to the hanging pictures on the walls of the post-apocalyptic shacks, it's all real. As a life-long Fallout fan, it's so gratifying to see such attention to detail!

The casting is also superb as well - many people have drawn parallels between the two protagonists and what we had to endure with the rebooted Star Wars franchise, Rey and Finn - they are alike, but instead, so well written.

And that ending really is the crux of the matter - the far off vista, that glimpse of New Vegas, (which the so-called faithful Fallout fans have used to deride this TV series so much because it broke the lore - which of course it didn't!) - that's such a HUGE prospect for this series, The Strip, being such a revered place in the video game franchise -yet never fully realised on screen before because of Obsidian's shortcomings. Golly, that really set the heart a flutter, seeing that city shimmering in the distance....

Kow wrote:

Season 2 of The Responder and Martin Freeman is proving he's a hell of a versatile actor. Although he does the desperate, on-the-edge cop to a tee, his comedy chops show through in a wicked little vein of black humour too.

Yeah, he’s fucking ace in it. Love the little bits of scouse black humour. He’s having quite the career.

The contrived meetings are fine with me - things like that are what made Fargo fun for example. And there was the maguffin they were looking for after all.

I ended up enjoying Fallout and I imagine if I had played the games I'd have likely loved it. I suspect the food items and packaging were enjoyable references to the original material.

For all my moans I did keep watching and the cast were excellent.  It was fun.  I'm a bit of a contrarian and instinctively kick against hype.

Have always been suspicious of licenced games, adaptations etc.  So this fell into that category.

@Blocks100 - Cursed Earth was a multi-episode Judge Dredd adventure from classic era 2000AD (circa 1978) involving crossing a radioactive wasteland. Some of the episodes caused controversy because of its unauthorised use of known brands at the time (the Mc D v King war was one example, and use of the jolly green giant in another episode). Its visual depiction of old bashed up tech being re-used  pretty much set the template for that type of romp.

To be fair it took inspiration from a book called Damnation Alley - which was about a  journey across a wasteland. There was a film of that with George Peppard I think. It was a bit crap if I remember right. But the artwork and ideas in this strip were/are astounding.

Last night's Inside No 9 was a top tenner for me. Great performances and bleak as fuck.

I enjoyed it more than the first episode but not a top tenner for me. I do hope they do one or two proper horror episodes this series.

Thought both episodes of Inside number 9 was pish.
The ending of the first one was ridiculous while the second episode had huge plot holes.
No doubt there will be a couple of good episodes this series but really won’t miss this show.

I'd love a Xmas episode every year though, that always seems like an event.

AndCallMeCharlie wrote:

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Why did he have the son's phone number in his pocket? Where did the gasoline and lighter come from? If you have a fake gun why would you untie a hostage? Why did he have to write the confession couldn't he have just recorded it? If you are about to kill someone do you stop, leave them outside while you call a number you find in their jacket?

Contingency plan?

AndCallMeCharlie wrote:

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Cool, so I am going to the effort of burying some poor kid but the rest I am going to play by ear

Dark Soldier wrote:

Defo easy to see how it can be read both ways, s'all gravy

Fucking hate gravy