‘Fallout’s Walton Goggins & EPs Talk Mixing Humor With A “Darker Place” In Post-Apocalyptic Series – Contenders TV: The Nominees

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“I’ve always felt throughout my career that you can always get the audience to a slightly darker place if you tell them a couple of jokes along the way,” says Fallout executive producer/director Jonathan Nolan about the approach and tone the multi-Emmy-nominated Prime Video drama has taken in its debut season.

Joined by fellow EP and co-showrunner Graham Wagner and star Walton Goggins, Nolan was speaking at Deadline’s virtual Contenders Television: The Nominees event.

Portlandia alum Wagner agrees with Nolan’s POV on mixed-genre storytelling. “I think that good drama has humor, and it always has,” the showrunner says. “As we’ve sort of seen in the last 20 years, great calamities can happen, and humans are still going to be idiosyncratic, weird and a little, I don’t love the word quirky, but little quirky.” RELATED: Deadline’s Contenders TV: The Nominees – Full Coverage Created by Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Wagner, Prime Video’s Fallout received 17 Emmy nominations last month including for Outstanding Drama Series and an Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for Goggins, the latte for his dual role as mutant bounty hunter the Ghoul and the pre-apocalypse Hollywood Western actor Cooper Howard.

With its first season watched by nearly 100 million viewers worldwide since its April 10 debut, the series based on the Bethesda Game Studios’ hit video game series was given a second-season renewal, which came 10 days after a second season of Fallout was allocated a $25 million tax incentive from the state of California and will be relocating to the Golden State for its sophomore season. RELATED: Emmy Nominations Analysis: Fresh Blood Livens Up The Race For TV Gold Professionally and personally, Justified, Righteous Gemstones