More than a year later, we’re still seeing the effects from The Last of Us proving that video game adaptations could actually make for award-winning, appointment television. But The Last of Us was a unique case in that it had a strict narrative story and set characters — it was a playable TV series as much as it was a video game.

Fallout, an adaptation of Bethesda’s hit post-apocalyptic game series, shouldn’t be able to work for TV. The game is an open-world RPG, so the protagonist can be built completely differently and the story varies based on which towns they wander across and which missions they choose to complete. No two players have the same experience, so replicating the experience should prove impossible.

Brought to Amazon Prime Video by Westworld showrunners Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, Fallout sidesteps any such problems by crafting a story that exists after the events of all the games with entirely new characters and devices. The result is something that does more than just give a video game the prestige treatment. This show furthers the evolution of prestige TV entirely to create something that blurs genre and convention as much as it defies expectation.

Humanity is at an inflection point with the Moon, Rebecca Boyle argues in her new book “Our Moon,” which came out earlier this year.

Around the world, space agencies and the private sector have been trying to land robotic missions on the Moon, staking out their part in a new lunar economy. And as soon as next year, NASA’s Artemis program will fly four astronauts around the Moon to gather data for how to establish a permanent human presence on the Moon.

In a recent interview with Inverse, Boyle reveals that too often the Moon can seem dull and inconvenient (even to astronomers). Our satellite celestial body is essential to everything we take for granted here on Earth, Boyle says. In “Our Moon,” she takes readers through the history of the Moon’s existence, its essential role in shaping the emergence of many forms of life on Earth, and why now, more than ever, we should interrogate our current relationship with our lunar orbiter.