Prime Video’s Fallout has been a great example of how to adapt a video game into must-watch TV, as well as cementing itself as prestige post-apocalyptic drama. In recent years, television has become the safe bunker for this survivalist genre. Creators have been gifted time to build immersive worlds filled with moral gray areas, strange cultures, and deeply flawed protagonists.
For viewers looking to continue their journey into the end of the world post-Fallout, there is no shortage of quality post-apocalyptic shows that echo the tone, themes, or world-building of Prime Video’s esteemed drama in distinct ways. From irradiated wastelands to underground bunkers and fractured societies, these are the best stories that explore humanity’s survivalist instincts when the world is forever changed.
Silo (Apple TV)
Rebecca ferguson Wearing a Hazmat Suit in Silo
If you’re a fan of vaults, you’ll love Silo. Like Fallout, the series centers on communities sealed away from a supposedly deadly world outside. Order in the silo is maintained by secrecy until one resident digs too deep. The tension between safety and freedom mirrors Fallout’s questioning of whether the outside world is truly as dangerous as advertised.
Based on Hugh Howey’s novels, Silo follows thousands of people living in a massive underground structure generations after an apocalyptic event. Its slow-burn storytelling and meticulous world-building have earned strong critical praise. The show leans heavily into mystery and political intrigue, gradually revealing cracks in the system meant to protect humanity. Silo season 3 is on the way, and it’s already renewed for season 4 on Apple TV.
The Last of Us (HBO & HBO Max)
Joel and Ellie looking off-screen in The Last of UsHBO / Courtesy Everett Collection
While Fallout has a good balance of satire within its sci-fi, The Last of Us carries a more consistent emotional weight, focusing on the internal struggles of individuals’ survival after societal collapse. Both shows examine how trauma reshapes people. However, where Fallout chooses mockery to critique certain aspects of society, The Last of Us chooses a grittier realism.
Adapted from the acclaimed video game, The Last of Us follows Joel and Ellie as they traverse a United States devastated by a pandemic caused by the cordyceps fungus. The Last of Us season 3 is in development, and it remains one of the most acclaimed post-apocalyptic series ever produced.
The Walking Dead: Dead City (AMC & AMC+)
Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan pointing his baseball bat at someone in The Walking Dead: Dead City
For decades, when you think “apocalypse,” you think of The Walking Dead. Spinoff series Dead City has moved on from the initial survivalism of the original and taps into the same fascination Fallout has with decayed landmarks and morally compromised survivors. Its ruined Manhattan setting echoes Fallout’s iconic wasteland locations, reimagined as hostile environments reclaimed by chaos.
The series follows The Walking Dead’s Maggie and Negan as they reluctantly team up to navigate a zombie-infested New York City. The show focuses less on rebuilding society and more on uneasy alliances and personal grudges. The Walking Dead: Dead City airs on AMC and streams on AMC+, continuing the franchise’s exploration of humanity after societal collapse.
Sweet Tooth pointing in Twisted Metal season 2 episode 1
Like Fallout, Twisted Metal understands that humor can be just as effective as horror in a ruined world. Both shows use absurdity and violence to critique power structures while keeping their tone entertainingly offbeat. It also has a fun cast highlighted by Anthony Mackie and Stephanie Beatriz.
Another show successfully adapted from a video game franchise, Twisted Metal follows a courier navigating a lawless wasteland dominated by eccentric warlords and vehicular combat. The series leans into stylized action and dark comedy rather than realism. Streaming on Peacock, it offers a lighter but still brutal take on post-apocalyptic survival.
The 100 (Netflix)
Echo In The 100
The 100 shares Fallout’s fascination with how new societies form out of the ashes. Both series examine power struggles, moral compromise, and the unintended consequences of survival-focused decisions. Much like Vault-Tec experiments, The 100’s factions repeatedly try to impose order through extreme systems of control.
The show begins with juvenile prisoners sent back to a post-nuclear Earth to test its habitability. Over seven seasons, The 100 evolves into a sprawling saga about leadership, loyalty, and survival ethics. It originally aired on The CW and is now available to stream on Netflix.
The Last Man on Earth (Hulu)
If you can’t laugh at the world’s demise, when can you? Fallout’s humor finds an extreme counterpart in The Last Man on Earth. Like Fallout, the comedy starring Will Forte uses absurdity to underline just how meaningless old-world rules become after the end. It imagines a future where a virus has wiped out most of humanity, leaving a handful of survivors navigating isolation and dysfunctional relationships.
The Last Man on Earth finds comedy in the isolation and repetition of an unending nothingness. It shows how ego, boredom, and misplaced optimism can be just as dangerous as any external threat. It originally aired on Fox and is available to stream on Hulu.
Snowpiercer (Netflix & AMC+)
Ruth (Alison Wright) looking up at the Gemini launch in Snowpiercer Season 4 Episode 10Image via amc+
Snowpiercer will connect with Fallout fans because it treats survival as a justification for extreme social engineering. Much like the Vault-Tec hierarchy, the train’s rigid class divisions are seen as a necessity. Its post-apocalyptic leaders weaponize scarcity and fear to maintain control long after the initial disaster is over.
Set aboard a perpetually moving train that carries the last remnants of humanity after Earth freezes over, Snowpiercer explores rebellion, governance, and moral compromise. Based on the graphic novel and film, the TV series first aired on TNT, with the last season moving to AMC. The show can now be streamed on Netflix.
Jericho (Paramount+)
If you like Fallout’s take on what happens immediately after nuclear collapse, Jericho delivers its own grounded look at that same uncertainty. Cut off from the outside world, with limited information and no higher authority to rely on, the series captures the same uneasy shift from order to survival politics that defines the early hours of life outside the Vaults.
The CBS series follows a small Kansas town after nuclear attacks devastate major U.S. cities. Rather than focusing on spectacle, Jericho centers on community resilience, paranoia, and political uncertainty. Though short-lived, it developed a strong cult following and remains available to stream on Paramount+.
Release Date
April 10, 2024
Network
Amazon Prime Video
Showrunner
Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan
