Ben Lindbergh

Yeah.

So we've talked about how this series has made us think about silo and severance.

So now add yet another Apple TV sci-fi series to the list of influences or at least the analogs.

I guess it's understandable because...

Apple TV has kind of cornered the markets on sci-fi series, by the way, for all mankind coming back March 27th, get hyped.

But yeah, I wonder whether you thought this aspect of things works as well as it does in Pluribus.

That's a tall order.

At least we both really appreciated Pluribus and covered it on the site or on podcasts.

But

This is a different sort of show.

And, you know, Fallout and Pluribus, they both have humor.

Pluribus is often funny.

But Fallout is more sort of slapstick, sophomoric humor, I guess, than Pluribus.

It's a little less of a high-minded show much of the time, which is fine.

Like, they're each doing different things in different lanes.

But...

When Fallout wants to kind of drive in the Pluribus lane too, you know, where we have this meditation on identity and free will, can that work as well in a show like Fallout as it does in a show like Pluribus where you're interspersing that with, you know, lower brow humor, I guess you could say, in Fallout?

It's like that constant tension between...

just the different tones of fallout which which works well for me i think like the darkness and the kind of the comic relief and the gallows humor and all of that but also when it wants to get kind of deep and and profound i don't know if it's as natural a transition maybe because like whenever we see these fallout figures on the surface they are kind of

cartoonish caricatures in a way, you know, just like fixing flea soup or whatever.