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).
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).