This video game adaptation from the team behind Deadpool is loud, obnoxious and hilarious. It’s a wild ride
f you only watch one post-apocalyptic TV series adapted from a violent Sony PlayStation game … well, you should probably make it. The brooding HBO drama from last year added even more emotional heft to what was already an artful and compelling video game about hope and humanity in a benighted world. Theis more of a whoopee cushion: loud and obnoxious yet often hilarious. It screeches belatedly on to UK screens this week after debuting in the US last summer .
The result is a hyperactive satire as broad as a sawn-off shotgun blast, delivered in 10 half-hour chunks. That means most of the world building happens at warp speed, cribbing from Mad Max, The Walking Dead, For an orphaned kid who grew up alone surrounded by feral peril, the cocky, smart-mouthed milkman has developed a remarkably glass-half-full personality. He is played so winningly by Mackie that when John literally clubs a seal pup in the opening episode – followed by a smash cut to a sizzling steak being tossed into a campfire pan – it comes across as funny rather than horrifying.
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