Fallout [Amazon]

He's a very underappreciated actor, with excellent comedic chops so maybe that gives some indication they'll be angling this with a wink in its eye. Any Fallout show that hasn't got dark humour through its veins would be an immediate fail IMO

Doesn't look like they've strayed from the art style at all, so you'd wanna think the soundtrack will be a collection of period appropriate tracks.

The set looks expensive, wouldn't be surprised if the show charts a plot inside the Vault, and outside.

That has to be a definite translation from the games; the whole point of Vault-Tec was their twisted purpose to make every Vault a science experiment, no matter how immoral that might have been. Lots of possibilities there for messed up storytelling.

More set pics, the detail is fantastic:

Cute little video about the show, complete with a refreshing Nuka Cola. Didn't realise Jonathan Nolan had an American accent - that's weird.

Trying to temper the hype, bit that's looking incredibly faithful to the games. I really hope they nail the tone and story

Yup, think your 2nd paragraph nailed the critical part here: ther's no grand overarching story or set of important characters in the overall fallout universe; each game has tended to exist as its own self-contained story with almost little overlap. It probably helps that you have potentially hundreds of Vaults dotted across America, not to mention as many valid geographic locations (I doubt we'll ever see an official non-US fallout story). Apparently this show will be "canon" too, so it's not a case of a loose adaptation that can be disowned.

One criticism I've seen levelled at the Bethesda games and it's kinda true when I thought about it: their aesthetic for Fallout kinda made it look like humanity just forgot how to build things again. Fallout 1 & 2 had new settlements, and a degree of newness - new buildings and settlements; the towns in Fallout 3 & 4 looked like places even shanty-towns would call a bit ramshackle. So I hope the TV show doesn't go with this world of detritus and shows a degree of civilisation, however chaotic and barbarous it can be in these games. New Vegas was pretty good for that as well, though notably that wasn't Bethesda either

Hype intensifies... first trailer's here. Spotted a pre war Goggins, and damn the BoS suits look good

Presumably we'll see something new to the world, can't imagine they'll stick to the games that closely we won't see a new faction, or even a new power to rival the BoS.

Indeed I wonder will the BoS be portrayed as good or bad - cos while they're better than most factions, they're also not that great either. IIRC preferring to horse technology than try to apply some law or order.