@katurian There are no characters who are in the games (at least not so far), so there's no race/gender swapping. In the game universe, asians were the main "target" of bigotry, while blacks were considered regular Americans (as long as not commies). Storyline has nothing to do with any of the games either, btw.
Do note that Fallout is an alernate reality that diverged A LOT from our reality already in the 40s and 50s. So you can't relate anything that happened after 1955 in our world to the Fallout universe.
@thunderztormdk thanks for your information about the characters. I am mostly just watching it from a fresh perspective and only analyse these things on reflection. It doesn't really matter to my enjoyment of the show if they are faithful to the game and as games tend to have a different way of telling a story, staying too faithful might make the show harder to enjoy for the uninitiated.
I already noted exactly what you suggested in my comment where I stated that it was clearly an alternate dimension.
Review by Jacob PaintBlockedParent2024-04-16T07:14:02Z
I have a feeling I would need to play the game a lot more to appreciate the silliness more in a tv show. On the one hand I like that the show seems to be sticking to the games apart from maybing choosing to mix with the genders and races of some characters (I'm guessing) which I don't mind to some degree so long as it's only a superficial change. The show has much bigger issues in terms of it's inconsistent tone and script writing that is at time very lazy.
The period scenes had a lot of black characters in roles where they wouldn't have been but it's clearly an alternate dimension given that the nuclear apocalypse of the game/show never actually happened so what's to say that the world didn't have a very different racial history. For the most part the actors portray they characters well enough (where the writing allows) and the racial politics of the time period as we know it wouldn't have added to the story. That said, I think they could have set it all up a bit better given that the game started in the late 90's and these characters probably would have been straight white people (maybe not, but as I said, I don't think it matters).