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Sorry ... what? Cassandra, a home robot from the 70s, harasses a family of utter idiots to whom ordinary everyday actions are an unfathomable mystery. I'm laughing as I write this, but I'm actually furious.

Rarely, and I really mean rarely, does one come across something so stupid, so disconnected from reason and logic, so incompetently crafted, it's actually trully offensive. Offensive in the sense that some idiot in the content creation department thinks/believes that this kind of mind-numbing dreck is an appropriate level of quality to serve to subscribers. Well, Netflix, no more. I'm out.

As a veteran of Fallout 1 and 2, I was very pleasantly surprised by this adaptation. Upon first viewing, my initial impression was "a very solid six", but, at the time of writing this review, that has grown to an eight. An intelligently set and presented main story, which is also elegantly and wittily served sharp criticism of run amok capitalism and profit-motivated existence. Typical Fallout toilet humor, perfect background music, striking post-apocalyptic locations, great cast ... although not completely without flaws (occasional banality and cheapness), this is certainly one of the best screen adaptations of a video game.

Of the three recent spinoffs, this one got the least love. Almost like an afterthought. Most likely just some contractual obligation that had to be fulfilled. Acting, characterization, decision-making, dialogues, exposition, dramatization ... all at the level of a mediocre Turkish soap opera. They don't even bother to mask how little interest the team has in making anything solid out of this neverending eye-rolling fest. Lame, lame, lame ...

A solid example of how a typical corporate executive imagines the average viewer and his/her intellectual capacity and needs.

Let's hope this is the last nail in the coffin of something that should have been buried a long time ago.