- Starring
- Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, Walton Goggins
- Creators
- Geneva Robertson-Dworet & Graham Wagner
- Rating
- TV-MA
- Genre
- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Where to watch
- Amazon Prime
- Release date
- April 10, 2024
Overall Score
Rating Overview
Rating Summary
The Fallout game franchise emerged from the post-apocalyptic role-playing game (RPG) genre, debuting in 1997 with Fallout, developed by Interplay Entertainment. Set in a retro-futuristic world devastated by nuclear war, the series blends dark humor, complex narratives, and moral dilemmas. Bethesda Game Studios revitalized the franchise with critically acclaimed releases such as Fallout 3 (2008) and Fallout 4 (2015), expanding its fan base and cementing its status as a cornerstone of the RPG genre.
Fallout (season 1)
Two hundred years after a nuclear war that ravaged the planet, a young woman who has lived a sheltered life of relative ease beneath the ground in a special Vault must brave the alien dangers of the post-apocalyptic surface if she hopes to rescue her kidnapped father from mysterious raiders.
Review
DISCLAIMER: I’ve never played a minute of the games. This review is based solely on the series.
Season one of Fallout on Amazon Prime is a rip-roaring good time. It’s overflowing with well-thought-out and interesting characters with believable and relatable motivations who experience nuanced character growth that belies the trappings of its over-the-top post-apocalyptic Atompunk aesthetic. For every giant salamander monster, there is a jaded loaner bent on revenge.
The world of Fallout is one of the best examples of world-building since the first three seasons of Game of Thrones. The showrunners’ attention to detail and their masterful intertwining of people, places, and things gives the viewer a fully immersive experience in which to get lost and helps to make the otherwise unbelievable scenarios and characters feel like a completely integrated universe of which the viewer is only getting the smallest of glimpses.
While the series is overflowing with characters ranging from interesting to excellent, two stand out as both the best in the series and two of the best characters on TV right now. Ella Purnell’s Lucy MacLean is chipper and well-meaning at heart. Yet, when she is tasked with an impossible mission for which she is grossly unprepared and begins to experience the horrors of the Wasteland, a journey that would break lesser women, she rallies and soldiers on. She never loses the core of her identity.
It’s through Lucy’s fish-out-of-water eyes and 1950s America can-do spirit that the nightmarish reality of the show is filtered, and it’s this spark that makes it survivable for both her character and the audience. She’s spunky. She’s fun. Best of all, despite the fantastic circumstances, she’s a relatively grounded character who only bests those who would stop her with sunshine grit, a lot of luck, and knowing the value of humility.
However, as needed as Lucy’s optimism might be for the show, there is no show without Walton Goggins’ Cooper Howard/aka The Ghoul. Goggins is a character actor many will recognize from his over 30 years in the business. However, for all of his time spent on camera, his is a name that most don’t know. If there is any justice in the world, Fallout will be his breakout.
Goggins infuses his ducentigenarian (had to look that one up) nuclear-zombie (atombie?) bounty hunter with all of the cool stereotypical stoic badassery that anyone who knows the difference between High Plains Drifter and A Fistful of Dollars could want, but he doesn’t stop there. Aided by an excellently conceived and executed backstory strategically scattered throughout the season, his character is given a pathos that resonates with every red-blooded man in the audience. It’s not that it’s never been done before; it’s that it hasn’t been done well in a long time.
Concurrently, Fallout’s story isn’t wholly original, but it’s done with enough original style and peppered with sufficiently charismatic characters with sympathetic arcs to overlook just about any wart, including the complete failure of the “twist” ending and ultimate villains’ unbelievably stupid plan.
If you can handle the following Woke Elements, season 1 of Fallout is totally Worth it.
WOKE ELEMENTS
The Good
- In any other show of this type, run by anyone else, Lucy MacLean would be an unstoppable girl boss taking down three-ton mutants with nothing but spit and a bad attitude while putting down her beta cuck bestie. But not in Fallout. Instead, despite the fact that the show establishes in its opening montage that she’s been in fight training for the entirety of her life, she realistically gets her butt handed to her in nearly every confrontation. She only manages to come out on top thanks to a mixture of luck and situational awareness.
The Non-Binary Elephant In The Room
- This is the big one. There is a mentally ill character that appears briefly in one episode and a little more in a second, played by a mentally ill woman, both of whom believe that she’s a make-believe gender. As bad as that is, the show also goes out of its way to manufacture a scene that provides the opportunity to refer to this series’ original character as “they.”
- The show doesn’t preach or get sanctimonious about gender ideology, and this is the only instance of it in the show. Still, in a post-apocalyptic world in which only the strongest and cruelest survive, and even then only barely, one of the most unbelievable things is the inclusion of a spindly armed trash-stache-having mental case sharing a barracks with a bunch of testosterone-filled alpha zealot soldiers who beat the crap out of one another to pass the time, yet accept her as one of the boys.
- Her character could have literally been anyone or just as easily completely omitted.
Just Enough Gay For Parties
- The showrunners managed to squeeze two lesbians dancing in the background during a wedding.
Objectification Is Bad… Unless it’s of men
- Two or three too many gratuitous naked dude butt scenes. Who do they think the audience for this is?
Capitalism Done It
- There’s no way to discuss this one without spoiling some things. You’ve been warned.
- ***SPOILERS*** Money-hungry capitalists blew up 99% of the world’s population and irradiated the soil and water… to make money. Someone slept through their Economics 101 course. While scarcity of desired goods increases their value, scarcity of potential customers does not.
- Literal communists are the good guys. ***END SPOILERS***
James Carrick
James Carrick is a passionate film enthusiast with a degree in theater and philosophy. James approaches dramatic criticism from a philosophic foundation grounded in aesthetics and ethics, offering insight and analysis that reveals layers of cinematic narrative with a touch of irreverence and a dash of snark.
50 comments
Red29375
April 16, 2024 at 2:56 am
One thing to keep in mind is that the original 90s CRPG entries in the series were created as a satire of ultra capitalism, so you’ll see that throughout the show, as well as the original games from the 90s. The way it was executed in the last episode was extremely ridiculous, however, and could have been better written in every way possible. You can’t make money on something if you destroy every possible economy in the process.
I do believe, however, there are a couple of other explanations.
There was a film treatment from the 90s that stated Vault Tec dropped the bombs so that the founder/ceo/whatever could fully live out his apocalyptic fantasy. They had some of these elements in that roundtable scene, and they did utilize unused material from previous games, so I’d say it’s a safe bet they used it and wanted to trash capitalism at the same time.
Second, there is a faction within the Fallout universe known as the “Enclave”. It’s been a very long time since I’ve played Fallout 2 but, in it, I believe it’s the stated that the Enclave existed before the bombs dropped, they wanted to take over major governments and vault tec so they could bring about an apocalypse and rise as the new world order. It’s entirely possible the writers were developing this thread so they could use it in season 2.
Speaking as a professional writer though, this show was rife with plotholes, bad jokes, weird and uncomfortable scenes involving male nudity, amd tonal and pacing problems.
There was one scene during the end with Moldaver that made me think she might have been in a lesbian relationship with a certain character’s mother, but I could be overanalyzing it. Hopefully it turns out to be nothing in season 2.
There was a lot of woke stuff in the show that I just missed entirely when watching it (like the lesbians dancing), but some lf it was easy to ignore. It was a nice reprieve from the uber-whiney, ultra-woke crap we’ve been getting for thr past 4 years.
Red29375
April 16, 2024 at 2:59 am
Oh yeah, it was also nice to not have a mary sue as a protagonist.
Bunny With A Keyboard
April 17, 2024 at 5:44 pm
It’ll handle things if Lucy and Moldaver ever get into an argument. “I’ve slept with your mother” is the ultimate takedown.
Red29375
April 19, 2024 at 3:53 am
I don’t see how that’d works as
***spoilers***
Moldaver dies on-screen
namen
April 24, 2024 at 3:56 pm
Woke ######.
White cucked by a black woman.
Little girl beats trained warrior (trained all her life by whom? A bunch of weaklings? Give me a break).
Blacks are leaders and heroes.
Whites are either old, weak, evil or known actor.
Lead characters are young white girl, young black guy and ghoul old white guy. Implying white girls must be romantically involved with black guys.
Black lead’s bestie is a pronoun degenerate.
Scored at 80?
“Based”?
Get real. Propaganda garbage.
What’s next, we pretty wrap rape drugs for children and give it a high score because the colors are an eye candy? foad.
Jay
May 1, 2024 at 11:23 pm
Have to agree- this is a copy of Star Wars with Rey and Finn. ZERO Bad guys are Black. Way too much Wokeness for me .
I give it a 20.
My wife and I watched the first show, looked at each other and said ” Nope” at the same time
ForrestGump
July 5, 2024 at 3:42 pm
Thank you! This is a far better woke call-out than the actual review. I’d add one thing, if Maximus was white, he’d be considered an irredeemable a*hole and a straight up villain. As it is, he gets a rewarded for his horrible, cowardly actions, and will most likely get a “redemption” arc in future seasons.
Just came across this site, and decided to use this review as a litmus test. I am a fan of the games, and was incredibly let down by the show. On the surface, it looks great and nails the visuals of the games. However, the show is solid woke-hollywood through and through. Not sure how anyone can give this propaganda a pass, and it makes me suspicious of site in general. Good Luck.
Jared
April 16, 2024 at 4:49 pm
I watched the first episode and thought it was odd that that chick was with the brotherhood (and could have sworn I saw some other Tom boys) and found it odd ..but wherever .
Then I read she thinks she isn’t a she and now I don’t want to watch the show 🙁 if they had to include a chick there why not just make her a tom boy ? Now because they HAD(?) to include this nonsense I don’t want to watch what sounds like a good show (and one I would have watched more of given the first episode )
Oh well.
Me
April 17, 2024 at 8:51 pm
Adding a tomboy would’ve been 10 times better and made a lot more sense, but remember Hollywood hates tomboys so she couldn’t be one
Robert
April 20, 2024 at 12:22 pm
You’re the only person on the Internet that TOTALLY agrees with my view! 🫡
Jessica Marie Baumgartner
April 16, 2024 at 4:52 pm
Too woke for me. I was pretty put off by the early comments in episode 1 normalizing having sex with your cousin. And the chicks talked like dudes. Not very realistic to me and I was a tomboy growing up.
No Baloney
April 17, 2024 at 8:36 pm
It’s based on a video game … so it’s literally not meant to be realistic.
They also say that sex with your cousin is bad… thus the reason she has to get married to someone outside of their vault.
Anyways, an excellent series and the only people who are going to get offended are people who are just looking to get offended, thus the 80% non-woke score.
And that’s No Baloney.
Paulius
April 30, 2024 at 8:19 am
It said “sex with your cousins is GOOD, but not a productive long-term relationship” or something like that. It explicitly stated that it was “good”.
Bunny With A Keyboard
April 30, 2024 at 10:37 am
That’s definitely the kind of thing you’d have in Fallout even without wokeness. Like cannibalism, there’s quite a few things that the games permit but aren’t truly endorsed for modern-day society. Compare with all the stuff you used to be able to do in Grand Theft Auto back when those games were good.
Personally, I have less of an issue with people being complete degenerates in mature stories meant for adults. The problem is when you put such things in children’s programming.
Paulius
May 1, 2024 at 5:40 am
Hey, I didn’t say anything about this being good or bad for the show. I was just correcting Mr. “No Baloney” – they did NOT say sex with a cousin is bad, that’s a fact and I just wanted to point that out.
John Logan
April 17, 2024 at 12:33 am
> It’s not without wokeness, but what’s good is so good that you kinda forgive it.
If it has woke propaganda in it, no matter how subtle, it’s unforgivable in my opinion. Please don’t get soft on these people.
Legion444
April 17, 2024 at 12:45 am
I’m surprised how many people are giving this show a pass. There are some other glaring bits of wokeness, plot holes, and just plain cringe that make the writing subpar.
***** spoilers below ******
1. Cringe jokes about sex with your cousin with implication that it occurred even as young children, as well as that it is perfectly normal.
2. Super cringe dialogue when Lucy out of the blue just randomly asks if Maximus wants to have sex. His response is also cringe and not remotely funny about it popping like a zit. Also a major plot hole because literally in another cringe scene a Brotherhood of Steel recruit is shown masturbating under a blanket, so obviously Maximus would know what ejaculation is.
3. Unbelievably cringe scene where a pregnant woman whose husband just died not even days prior puts his sweater on another man and then calls him by her dead husband’s name and tries to have sex with him. Have I mentioned the show has a lot of cringe?
4. How is a certain communist still alive from pre-war? Cryo-pod? Probably, but who knows.
5. So the ghoul can just shoot the magic mcguffin spot on power armor and kill the person inside with 1 bullet whenever he wants, why didn’t he just kill Maximus in their previous fight? He clearly shows he’ll kill anyone who gets in his way.
6. Maximus, main male protagonist, just whines constantly, it’s insufferable.
7. Devoted white father is … You guessed it, actually evil.
8. Already mentioned, I would have thought having a “they” and the communists as the good guys and capitalists as the bad guys would ding the show for more. The games have always been what I would call anti-consumerist but not pro-communist.
That’s all I can think of right now, though I recalled there was more while I was watching it. I have played the games and they were certainly a big part of my childhood and early adulthood, which is the only reason I’m writing such a lengthy comment.
Anyway, always enjoy the reviews. They are always an excellent resource to help decide what to skip.
Bunny With A Keyboard
April 17, 2024 at 5:51 pm
It’s effectively impossible to write any sort of woke mystery. I’ll give you an example.
The detective knows that the killer is one of three people: a very devout Muslim, a straight white man with an airtight alibi, and a Hispanic woman who is very clearly hiding a secret.
Did you guess that the secret is that the Hispanic woman isn’t here legally and that the white man is the killer?
IceCapT51
April 20, 2024 at 4:59 am
Moldaver isn’t even a communist. If she was a communist she wouldn’t have affiliated herself with the NCR in the first place.
IceCapT51
April 20, 2024 at 5:00 am
You clearly haven’t played the games either. Where is your incessant screaming about how ‘woke’ fallout 2 actually was? That game constantly threw the ‘republicans bad’ ###### at you the moment you meet the first Enclave trooper.
John Logan
April 17, 2024 at 8:27 am
It’s already over when someone uses “they” (or “he/him”, “she/her”), That one instance of virtue signaling is enough to reveal the underlying brain rot, completely spoil a good movie, game, business, or acquaintance, and negate any and all ‘based’ points.
James Carrick
April 17, 2024 at 9:26 am
That’s precisely why I list the woke elements. That way everyone has the needed information to make the best viewing decisions for themselves.
John Logan
April 17, 2024 at 3:27 pm
Indeed, although I don’t agree with the high ‘based’ rating for this one, I appreciated you going into details with the woke elements as always.
Sweet Deals
April 17, 2024 at 7:38 pm
I didn’t watch the show or play the games, so I apologize for that in advance.
Lately, I’ve been feeling like woke elements have become too perfunctory. They’re usually not necessary, and I don’t even know if the people making the show even believe in them, but they have to be included anyway because the script demands those boxes must be checked.
I came up with a silly thought experiment; if I took every single instance of wokeness and inappropriate sexual moments and substituted it with a fart joke, would that change the narrative at all? Would it make things more vulgar or less? After all, not everyone appreciates alternative sexual lifestyles, but I’m certain that everybody farts. If those who indulged in wokeness released a loud, stinky fart every time they did, maybe they’d realize how ridiculous they sound to the rest of us.
James Carrick
April 17, 2024 at 8:10 pm
100% I call it Cocktail Party Wokeness. The writers, etc. insert just enough in to virtue signal their way into better cocktail parties where they can get their backs patted by the other empty suits around them.
Bunny With A Keyboard
April 17, 2024 at 8:32 pm
And whenever you do something not because of reasons that fit the story but because of outside sociopolitical reasons, it becomes an unnecessary distraction.
An easy thought experiment: imagine if it became required in some third world country to say “Long may he reign” whenever their ruler is mentioned in the movie, and he’s required to be mentioned three times a movie. Every single time you hear it, it’d knock you out of the narrative and remind you that what you’re watching isn’t real.
That’s why people have an easier time with accepting magic and dragons than they do wokeness. Magic and dragons are fun creative inventions to make stories more interesting. Wokeness is just a lie told by people trying to push politics.
No Baloney
April 17, 2024 at 8:41 pm
As for the he-she – is that even what it is? They never refer to sex when talking about it, and you’re talking about a show based off a game where people grow arms out of their stomach due to mutation. I’m not actually sure if that even has a sex or what it is.
As for those getting offended by this … Lighten up Francis. This is a series based on an outlandish video game – it’s not real, it’s not even our timeline or universe. Chill out and enjoy the show, it’s very good, funny, and a lot of fun.
Now, if you’re against having fun or laughing or enjoying yourself, you can always convert to Islam where those things are forbidden.
And that’s No Baloney.
Bunny With A Keyboard
April 18, 2024 at 8:35 am
“It has weird elements so don’t take any of it seriously” is how we get to House of the Dragon with “it has dragons so just make some characters black. What does it matter?” Then you have characters in the show talking about how sons don’t look like their fathers and they show exactly why it does matter.
For both science fiction and fantasy, the art of verisimilitude is knowing what things you can stretch and what things you can’t, as well as ensuring that it doesn’t contradict things that come up in the story.
Sweet Deals
April 18, 2024 at 11:57 am
Telling good stories in general requires effort.
I don’t read as many books as I used to or watch too many new movies, but the reason why I stopped has a lot to do with this kind of sloppiness. The author creates a story thinking that he has put in every cool thing he can think of; it’s got dragons, witches and explosions in it. The characters are all the correct colors, which only goes about as deep as artificial candy flavorings, and he interrupted his narrative to place multiple perfunctory fart jokes and sing the praises of flatulence to demonstrate that his digestive system is working as the medical professionals say it should. Then, even though the story doesn’t have a coherent narrative, his best ideas are stolen and recycled from better stories, and his characters are insufferable and have no depth, he sings his own flatulent praises because he wrote a book and you didn’t.
It just seems very vain, shallow and frivolous, and I have no patience for that sort of thing.
Brutus Maximus
April 18, 2024 at 12:37 pm
” it’s not real, it’s not even our timeline or universe”
And there’s the root of the problem, right there. Every single they/them, cousin-f’ing joke, etc. is a reflection of our modern day timeline. None of it belongs in the show, and every instance reminds the viewer of the Clown World we share.
IceCapT51
April 20, 2024 at 4:57 am
How is it impossible to think that self sustained vaults with only a couple hundred people in it won’t engage with cousin sex? The show takes place 219 years after 2077.
No Baloney
April 25, 2024 at 4:17 pm
It’s really amazing how many people here are complaining about something and they have absolutely no clue what they’re talking about, haven’t seen the show, and didn’t even read the review – they just saw the show was popular and wanted to complain about it.
In fairness, most of the time they’d be right, but this is not a woke show and sticks pretty close to the video game origins – and really doesn’t have much of a message outside of that.
No Baloney
April 25, 2024 at 4:12 pm
Did you watch the show?
No.
Are you just being fake offended like a typical leftist, literally having no idea what you’re complaining about?
Yes.
I don’t care if you like it or watch, but at least have a clue what you’re complaining about. I don’t think that’s too much to ask.
And that’s No Baloney.
Jay
May 1, 2024 at 11:30 pm
Quit whining and go back to MSNBC
M Taylor
April 18, 2024 at 12:58 pm
What communist is a good guy? Muldaver? She’s ruthless, power hungry, and short sided. Everything she touches is destroyed or taken from her. She was just as villainous at the end as she was at the beginning.
The vaults seemed way more Communist than anyone else, and the are all corrupt, sadistic traps where they are tools for those in power.
The show does have a very anti- corporate message, but is being anti-corporate the same as being anti-capitalist? I think you can be pre capitalist and think that corporations have grown to big and powerful.
James Carrick
April 18, 2024 at 1:10 pm
I don’t disagree that she was not a “good guy” by our standards, but within the show’s framework and via the writers’ voice, she is narratively the “good guy.”
As to your second point, I once again agree with the sentiment and disagree with the proposition that the show might not be anti-capitalist. While, the villainous corporate overlords took a sudden and poorly written shift mid conversation in the (I believe) last episode that made them sound far more like a gathering of Klaus Schwab and the WEF planning the next Great Society than simply greedy Wall Street traders, the primary corporation’s expressed motivation up until that point had been to destroy the competition as to gain a monopoly on… everything.
Drew Strickland
April 19, 2024 at 7:09 pm
Hey, I have an unrelated question to ask. When is the X-men 97 show coming out besides just for premium members? I’m asking because it’s been posted for a while, and I would like to know if it’s worth a viewing or not.
IceCapT51
April 20, 2024 at 4:55 am
None of the people in this comment section have played a single fallout game in their entire life.
Also, “literally communists are the good guys” seriously dude?
What, because Moldaver said “communism is just a dirty word they use to describe people who aren’t the same as them”?
The pre war government in fallout were a bunch of dirty assholes. They literally made entire Internment camps for the chinese the moment china set foot in Alaska during the battle for Anchorage.
Moldaver is nowhere near a communist, especially considering the NCR hated communism.
Don’t even get me started on “That’s awfully convenient that the US made internment camps” when this ###### goes way back to 2008 with fallout 3.
Lawrence
April 20, 2024 at 3:22 pm
For “modern audiences”? There are definitely a lot of signs, but if you know how much “the message” has infected Hollywood, they actually showed surprising restraint. I fully expected season 2 to be worse, similar to how Westworld kept getting worse.
As for quality of the show, it really felt like the Fallout games in live action – there was so much attention to detail. Almost every frame contains references and/or Easter eggs from the games. The lack of blatant exposition dumps was quite refreshing. The characters were all had decent arcs, especially Cooper, Lucy and Norm. The gore was a bit much for me, but it does reflect the games.
My main criticism was the Brotherhood of Steel. They felt more like Caesar’s Legion with power armour. In the games, they are a brotherhood: well-disciplined, competent zealots. In the show, they’re more ruthless, weak-willed and cruel to each other and the NCR that doesn’t seem to be ideologically opposed the way The Enclave would be.
For Fallout game fans, I think this is a must-see. For others, it’s a decent way to spend 8 hours.
BIOJECT
April 25, 2024 at 6:30 pm
Stopped watching when the non-binary character showed up. Even if that is the only instance of it in the show, I’m not going to support a show that panders to any kind of left-wing degeneracy.
James Carrick
April 25, 2024 at 6:44 pm
I understand completely. That’s why we include the woke elements in each review.
Rick K.
April 27, 2024 at 2:03 pm
Four episodes in as of today. Weird, but fun so far. A few quick wokenesses but they go so fast it hasn’t been a problem for me. Have to admit the Acolyte Dawn thing with the “their” had me a little worried. We moved from Iowa to L.A. with the Dodgers, 1957, but most of the “period” stuff they’ve shown isn’t really a part of my memory. Anyway, can’t wait for someone to make a movie out of Kurt Schlichter’s book The Attack. The only woke stuff there would be dead.
Jay
May 1, 2024 at 11:33 pm
I just read ” The Attack” and there is no way Hollywood would allow a movie to be made showing Joe Biden as the true idiot he is
Alex Zen
May 13, 2024 at 7:14 pm
Does she burn the coal?
Bunny With A Keyboard
May 13, 2024 at 10:43 pm
What coal?
carter
May 13, 2024 at 11:02 pm
You failed to mention a particular woke characteristic of having super diverse groups of peace lovers while villains are always white. The obligatory proliferance of BICs (blacks in charge), is everywhere, as is the obligatory black/white couple. In a post-apocalyptic setting where all major cities were nuked, it is of note that 9 of the 12 percent total black US population live in urban or suburban areas. The other 3 percent live in rural settings. The relative ratio of black surface survivors would shrink drastically.
netguru2k
May 18, 2024 at 6:24 pm
Black dude oppresed who is now a badass
Girl who was at the start a lesbian hero
White dude simping a black wife
Lesbo looking skinny girl as a recruit never touched by the other dudes, fantasy.
This has a lot of woke but so far is not ruining the story, we will see at season 2.
5/10 woke
BlueHairedFeminist4BBC
May 20, 2024 at 7:45 pm
White dudes – BAD
Black dude – YAY
Feminism – YES PLEASE
Immigrants – BRING SO MUCH TO THE TABLE
He/She – WE GOT THAT TOO
5/5
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Shane B
May 27, 2024 at 9:10 am
Used to follow this site, don’t anymore because of “woke-ish” ratings for the most woke show I’ve ever seen. They even went as far as to have the fallout shelter that’s “multicultural” and lets people in no matter their differences as the shelter that thrives. Like an open US border. They attack family every opportunity they get… you can’t trust your family. And this is “woke-ish”!?. Seriously. That’s 2 non obvious examples. But there are SO MANY
Jerp
June 25, 2024 at 4:51 pm
– Only mixed races allowed: Both of the show’s major relationships (Lucy’s and the ghoul’s) are biracial.
– Parents & male leaders are the villains: The dad is a supervillain who helped destroy humanity and kill his own wife, yet his ultra-idealistic daughter never noticed a thing growing up. Also, it only took a moment before she was ready to trust a known terrorist over him.