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Amazon's Fallout TV series is pretty good, yeah? Not only is it some darn great television in its own right, this high-budget, high-profile show might just be the most faithful adaptation of a video game ever put to screens big or small. It's so good that the Fallout video games, the most recent of which is almost seven years old, have been shooting back up the charts. But if you're new to the crumbling, irradiated world of Fallout, you might feel a little lost when the credits roll on the last episode. What's this New Vegas place hinted at in the post-credits scene? Why did the pre-war flashbacks look like Marty McFly's 1955, but have nuclear-powered robots? How did people invent Iron Man-style power armor if they can't make a computer smaller than a bread box?

The actor Danny McBride looked around the Jekyll & Hyde Club, in the West Village, and said, "This is where the New York bankers do all the big deals, huh?" It was shortly after noon, and the putatively scary horror-themed restaurant--skeletons in top hats, chattering mummies--was empty. "I worked in places like this in Los Angeles," the actor continued, "and I recognize that disgusting stale-beer stink." Unconcerned, McBride ordered a Caesar salad with chicken, then suggested that the menu was a missed opportunity: "The names should be more horror-infused, more'The Creature from the Black Lagoon' Wings." In Ridley Scott's new film, "Alien: Covenant," the latest installment of the actually scary horror franchise about aliens who burst from the bellies of spaceship crew members, McBride plays a jaunty Southerner named Tennessee.