Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. This week a fresh carpet of snow has descended to terrorize my poor neighborhood, meaning I’ve had plenty of time to stay inside and screen fresh projects. We completed the second season of the Fallout adaptation, which continued to nail the aesthetics and rightfully bleak philosophy of the games, while apparently receiving enough of a budget boost to include dramatic full-scale clashes of New Vegas’ various factions. I thought Mr. House’s preoccupation with an ultimate “man behind the curtain” felt more about providing plot hooks and incentive for a third season than furnishing the show’s main themes, but was otherwise a fan, particularly since this season actually upped the Walton Goggins quotient significantly. That aside, we’ve of course been plowing through our regular allotment of feature films, so let’s get down to the Week in Review!

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