What TV shows are you watching right now?

I finished season one of Fallout yesterday and this is hands down the best adaptation of a video game universe I've ever seen. These normally fall flat on their face but this was brilliant. I don't want to say any spoilers about it here but if you like the games this is a must watch (it's also canon). It also has the most extensive pre-war depictions yet seen in the franchise with many more flashbacks that anticipated and it feels like the franchise just finally delivered perhaps not hard answers but certainly a path to follow on how the Great War actually did start.

They have obviously held some staples of the Fallout series back for later seasons which it was kind of disappointing not to see: there are no super mutants encountered, deathclaws are only teased via bones and most of the robot types didn't appear. They missed a chance to have Ron Perlman featured in any capacity but we all know we wanted to hear him deliver the 'war, war never changes' line. Fallout 4 didn't have him do that either but he at least still had a cameo as the newsreader in the intro. 

The series certainly captured the inherent wackiness of Fallout and I hope that will continue into the next season and hopefully at least get a cameo from the Zetans. 

Watching Dexter...didn´t see it back when it first aired but Neflix in Denmark just brought it back, so I thought I´d watch it while I can.

I´m in the middel of season 5 and I´m still binge watching. I love it.

From the makers of Band of Brothers and The Pacific, so it's up to those standards. Based on true stories, with the usual liberties for dramatic effect. There's some pretty intense combat scenes, which are really well done.

I read the book a few weeks back. This adaptation changes the characters to a multi-national cast though so it's ben difficult to line up who is supposed to be who especially when they seem to have traits spread between them. The pacing compared to the book also seems well off with certain reveals coming far far earlier than expected. I'm on three episodes in and have already had some late book stuff. I'm enjoying it even as something feels off about it. 

That really puzzles me because the series could not be much more like the games as is and is actually like the games in ways you'd think a tv show would skim over such as item mechanics showed being used (Stimpak healing for instance). The reference to how these are games players often ignore the main quest in was also so on point. What's more the set and prop designs are lifted straight from Fallout 4 to impeccable detail. 

If people are complaining about it not being enough like the games I'd be tempted to conclude that they:

A. Haven't actually played the games.

B. Are still hung up on the original Fallout games pre-Bethesda.

C. Are just shit-stirring. 

Good to see you here by the way mate, been a while!

Been meaning to but not got around to that one yet.