10 Best Shows To Binge If You Like ‘Fallout’

1. The Last of Us

If the emotional weight of Fallout’s wasteland appealed to you, The Last of Us is the essential next step. Set twenty years after a fungal pandemic turns humanity into aggressive creatures, it follows a hardened survivor transporting a young girl who may be the key to a cure.

2. Silo

Silo is the perfect spiritual sibling to the themes of Fallout. Once again, Vault Dwellers become a central part of the story. This time, instead of multiple different vaults, there is only one vertical vault and a lot of dangerous politics surrounding it. It captures that claustrophobic, "underground society" tension perfectly.

3. The 100

Set 97 years after a nuclear apocalypse, the survivors living on a space station send 100 juvenile delinquents back to Earth to see if it’s habitable. They soon discover that, much like Fallout, people actually survived on the surface and have devolved into tribal, warring factions known as "Grounders."

4. Twisted Metal

Based on the classic video game, it follows a motor-mouthed outsider delivering a mysterious package across a post-apocalyptic wasteland filled with colorful, murderous raiders (including a killer clown in an ice cream truck). It matches Fallout's tone of "fun in the face of annihilation."

5. Snowpiercer

After a climate catastrophe freezes the world, the remnants of humanity live on a perpetually moving train divided by a strict class system. It mirrors Fallout’s themes of social hierarchy and the desperate measures people take when resources are scarce and there is nowhere else to go.

6. The Man in the High Castle

Sometimes, you do not need a nuclear war to simulate the dark and desolate conditions of post-apocalyptic world. The story depicts a 1960s America where the Axis powers won WWII. This series provides a chillingly detailed look at a "world that went wrong" in a different way.

7. Station Eleven

Twenty years after a flu pandemic collapses civilization, a traveling troupe of Shakespearean actors moves between settlements. It focuses on how art and humanity survive when technology fails, providing a hopeful but grounded counterpoint to the more violent wasteland tropes.

8. Black Mirror: "Metalhead"

The entire story is filmed in black and white. A woman must escape the wasteland while she is being hunted down by a robotic dog. It captures the terrifying reality of high-tech weaponry outliving its creators.

9. Sweet Tooth

Often described as a "gentler apocalypse," Sweet Tooth follows a boy who is part human and part deer navigating a world devastated by "The Great Crumble." It features an optimistic protagonist entering a dangerous, mutated world for the first time.

10. The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon

The original Walking Dead series is a classic post-apocalyptic show. But Daryl Dixon spin-off on the other hand feels more like a Fallout side-quest story. Just like a side-quest, Daryl washes up in post-apocalyptic France and must escort a young boy across a ruined, beautiful landscape.