Drama
Fallout
A faithful rendition of the popular videogame, Prime Video’s Fallout is also just as bloody and problematic, too.
Prince and Bambi are brothers in arms. The Special Forces vets have always gotten along well. Prince even married Bambi’s sister, Amber.
But things took a turn during a mission to rescue American journalists from the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Prince got stuck behind enemy lines. Bambi and the rest of their unit got the journalists to safety and then went back to save him. They were successful, but in the process, their leader, Drifter, got shot.
Bambi made a choice. He chose to save his sister’s husband because he had promised to always bring him back to her—to make sure that Prince came home.
Prince thinks Bambi made the wrong choice. Call it survivor’s guilt, but he blames Bambi for Drifter’s death. And as a result, he’s leaving military life behind and cutting ties with his brother-in-law.
That might have been the end of it. The brothers could have parted ways and moved on. But their connection to Amber won’t let them.
On a research trip to Colombia, Amber (a scientist searching for safe ways to use alkaloids to treat drug addiction) is kidnapped by guerrilla combatants.
Transported to Venezuela, held against her will and being used as a political pawn, Amber stands no chance of negotiating her way out.
But Prince and Bambi won’t just leave her there. Despite their differences, they both love Amber more than anything. And they’re willing to do anything to get her back.
Echo 3 has a lot of content to wade through. Military combat scenes show people getting shot and killed. And sometimes these scenes can get bloody.
Language is harsh, including uses of the f-word. And there are some sensual scenes showing lots of skin.
Amber’s passion for healing drug addiction comes from her own mother’s drug abuse. We see her mom using a variety of drugs. Near the beginning, Bambi appears to be sober, drinking only water and avoiding alcohol. But he soon falls off the wagon after falling out with Prince.
And then of course, there are Amber’s methods of treating addiction—promoting the use of psychedelics in therapeutic settings under the guidance of trained professionals. And when she goes to Colombia, she participates in a ritual guided by a shaman.
Military combat scenes show people getting shot (we see a fair amount of blood) and killed. Several people are forced to kneel for execution. We hear the gunshots off screen and later hear about their deaths. Bambi is forced to choose between saving his commanding officer and his brother-in-law. (He chooses the latter, and Prince heavily criticizes his decision.) Prisoners are handled roughly by their captors. A woman throws her shoes in frustration.
A newly married couple kisses passionately, and husband and wife grope each other. In other scenes, they have sex and we see lots of skin and movement, though nothing explicit. A man licks a woman’s foot while dancing. Some women wear revealing outfits. People joke about multiple marriages (and we learn Amber and Bambi’s dad has been married three times).
People drink throughout the episode, sometimes to excess. Bambi makes a point to not drink for a while, but he eventually starts imbibing after falling out with his brother-in-law. Amber’s mom takes several medications and smokes marijuana (and other scenes show her history with drug abuse). Amber gives a lecture about using psychedelics as medication for substance abuse rehabilitation. Later, we see her participate in a shaman-guided ritual that uses these drugs.
After Amber refuses to take a tracking device with her to Colombia, Prince hides it in her luggage. Later, when this device causes her to get kidnapped, he learns that she wasn’t allowed to have it since she was secretly working for the CIA (which she and her brother had kept hidden from him the entire course of their relationship). Bambi criticizes his mother’s pessimistic attitude.
The f-word is used a dozen times. We also hear uses of the s-word and “b–ch.” God’s name is abused, too.
A woman prays earnestly for God to save her.
Emily studied film and writing when she was in college. And when she isn’t being way too competitive while playing board games, she enjoys food, sleep, and geeking out with her husband indulging in their “nerdoms,” which is the collective fan cultures of everything they love, such as Star Wars, Star Trek, Stargate and Lord of the Rings.
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