Amazon’s new Fallout trailer looks just like the games: grim, silly and gruesome

It’s still too early to say whether Amazon’s live action will be successful Fall It will be good. But early trailers at least make one thing clear: the show seems to be capturing the games’ distinctive vibe.

The newly released second trailer follows the same beats as the first, tracking a vault dweller named Lucy (Ella Purnell) who ventures into the Wasteland only to discover how dangerous things have become two centuries after the apocalypse. The show looks gritty and violent, as you’d expect from a post-apocalyptic series, but it also balances it with a goofy sense of humor and a playful retro-futuristic style. Case in point: a Mister Orderly robot who simply wants to harvest Lucy’s organs. It is not a big thing.

Other than that, the trailer is full of classics. Fall Details that will make gaming fans feel right at home, from the plentiful Stimpaks to some impressive-looking power armor. When The Ink Spots start singing “I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire,” it’s hard not to think about the end of the world. It also looks like the series will spend a little more time exploring the times before; The trailer is packed with a sales pitch for the vaults that wouldn’t be out of place in Hello morning!.

Fall is directed by Western world Co-creator Jonathan Nolan, with Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner as showrunners. It also stars Aaron Moten, Walton Goggins and Kyle MacLachlan.

The show begins airing on April 11, one day earlier than previously announced. And instead of a weekly show, all eight episodes will be released at once.