The list of nominees for the 76th Emmy Awards has been unveiled and Amazon’s Fallout series will be battling for glory with the likes of Shogun, 3 Body Problem, Slow Horses, Mr & Mrs Smith, The Morning Show, The Gilead Age, and The Crown in the Best Drama Series category.
Season 1 of the Fallout series premiered on April 10, 2024, and was widely praised as one of the best adaptations of a video game into a TV series. On Metacritic, the series scored an average of 73 points from 33 critic reviews. The series has since been renewed for Season 2.
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Walton Goggins who played the dual role of Cooper Howard and The Ghoul was nominated in the Best Actor in a Drama Series category. The show bagged a third nomination in the Best Writing for a Drama Series category. The show’s writer Graham Wagner explained how TV shows are merely catching up with video games.
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“Fallout originated from a really wild and creative period of video game making, and television seems to be just catching up to that moment now, similar to movies catching up to the somewhat psychedelic Marvel Comics of the ’60s and ’70s. So I feel like we’re in that pattern,” he said in an interview with Deadline.
“We barely scratched the surface of the world of Fallout in Season 1, and it feels like in Season 2 we’re getting another scratch in, but there’s more to be done.”
Fellow writer and producer Geneva Robertson-Dworet added, “The crazy thing about making Season 1 is that you have eight hours to adapt a franchise, in which there’s thousands of hours of gameplay to draw from, and it just means that you have to leave so many of your favorite pieces of the mythology behind.”
“So, we’re honestly just excited to get to be able to dive deeper into it and show audiences more of this incredible world.”
This is the second year in a row that a video game adaptation has bagged numerous nominations. Last year, The Last of Us adaptation by HBO bagged 24 nominations and won 8. The 76th Emmy Awards will be held on September 16, 2024, at Peacock Theater, Los Angeles.
Check here for the full nominee list.
