Commonwealth (TV Series)

Commonwealth is a 2023 American post-apocalyptic drama TV series. It has 5 seasons.
==Premise==
===Season 1===
In 2077, Nora and Nate Davenport are former US Army soldiers who were discharged after a fling led to Nora becoming pregnant. They married shortly after and bought a house in Sanctuary Hills. Nora gave birth to their son Shaun a week ago, who they take care of with the help of their Mr. Handy robot butler Codsworth. One day, a news bulletin warns of a nuclear attack and the Davenports flee into Vault 111, where they are frozen inside cryogenic chambers. Nora wakes up in 2287 and finds Nate, Shaun and everyone else missing. She stumbles out of the vault and finds herself in an irradiated wasteland.
Nora finds Codsworth in the remains of Sanctuary Hills. After recuperating for a day, they travel to Concord, where they find and rescue Preston Garvey, the sole survivor of a volunteer militia called the Minutemen. After being brought to Sanctuary Hills, Preston advises Nora to go to Diamond City. On the way to Diamond City, Nora and Codsworth meet Paladin William Danse of the Brotherhood of Steel and aid him in retrieving a deep range transmitter. Danse rewards them by escorting them to Diamond City and inducting Nora as a Brotherhood of Steel Initiate.
In Diamond City, Nora and Codsworth meet local journalist Piper Wright and synth private detective Nick Valentine. Due to Nick not recognising who kidnapped Shaun, he suggests they hunt down Raiders and Gunners. Nora, Codsworth, Nick and Piper go to Goodneighbour, but are attacked while passing the Combat Zone, a theater overrun by Raiders. They invade the Combat Zone in hopes of finding information about Shaun or his kidnappers. They fail to do so but manage to recruit Irish pit fighter Cait.
They five travel to Goodneighbour, where they meet Mayor John Hancock and enlist the help of mercenary R.J. MacCready. The seven storm Greenetech Genetics, but find nothing about Shaun or his kidnappers although they manage to free a Synth. After clearing out Mass Pike Interchange and failing again to find anything about Shaun, Hancock, MacCready and Cait go to Goodneighbour to drink.
Nick reveals to Nora, Piper and Codsworth that he is an agent of the Railroad and leads them to the Old North Church. The Railroad's leader, Desdemona, tentatively inducts Nora as an agent, Whisper. Nick then returns to Diamond City with Codsworth accompanying him and Nora and Piper go around hunting Raiders.
After clearing a few Raider gangs but finding herself nowhere closer to finding Shaun, Nora returns to Sanctuary Hills and discovers that Preston had converted it into a thriving settlement and rescued several others. He convinces her to take up the position of the new Minutemen General.
Learning of Nuka-World from Preston, Nora and Piper make their way through the Gauntlet. After killing Colter, Piper blows Gage's head off and they massacre the rest of the Raiders. Piper explains to Nora that she watched Raiders rape and kill her sister in front of her, making her despise all Raiders. While helping a slave named Sierra Petrovita find Nuka-Cola inventor J.M. McGann, they learn from a terminal that the Raiders were spying on an alleged Institute hitman named Kellogg in Fort Hagen. When they find McGann, the duo decline McGann's pleas to let her die and leave Sierra with her, later sending Minutemen to take over the park for themselves.
Nora and Preston confront Kellogg at Fort Hagen, who tells them that Shaun is long dead. Nora kills him in a rage. As they leave, they notice the Prydwen arriving in the Commonwealth.
===Season 2===
Determined to avenge Shaun by destroying the Institute, Nora boards the Prydwen with Danse and is promoted to Knight by Elder Arthur Maxson. On her adventures, she rescues Curie from Vault 81 and Strong from the tower.
On one of her Brotherhood missions, she is sent to eliminate Brian Virgil. She tracks him down, but he convinces her to spare him by telling her that Shaun is still alive. Nora brings Virgil back to the Brotherhood who detain him. After getting a Courser chip from a Courser at Greentech Genetics and getting it decoded, she builds the Molecular Relay with the help of the Brotherhood and is teleported into the Institute.
There, Nora finds Shaun, now the Institute's Director, and has a mental breakdown. Shaun leads her to a bed and lets her rest in his arms.
===Season 3===
The Institute nurses Nora back to health over the course of a week. Recovering, she sneaks into an FEV lab and retrieves Virgil's Holotape, using it to convince Madison Li to defect, before returning to the surface. She also meets the Railroad's mole in the Institute, Liam "Patriot" Binet, and formulates a plan with him to free the Synths. 
Nora decides that the Institute needs to be destroyed and collaborates with the Brotherhood to build Liberty Prime. However, Maxson confronts her after realising that Danse is a Synth and sends her to eliminate him.
Nora arrives at Listening Point Bravo, where she finds a modified Fat Man and a Mark 28 nuke stashed away in a locker. She speaks to Danse and convinces him to live. However, as they leave, they find Maxson waiting. After a brief argument, Maxson shoots Danse dead. Enraged by Danse's death, Nora shoots down Maxson's Vertibird with the Fat Man, killing him and turning the Brotherhood against her.
===Season 4===
Deciding to ally with the Institute, Nora helps Shaun retrieve the Beryllium Agitator, helps him collect four Synths for the Institute, broadcasts his speech to the Commonwealth, helps him kidnap a scientist and hijacks Liberty Prime to shoot down the Prydwen. Piper also reveals that her real name is Natalie Wright and the real Piper Wright was her sister who was killed by Raiders.
Shaun orders Nora to eliminate the Railroad. Nora arrives at Railroad headquarters, but is unable to bring herself to kill her friends and instead allies with them. The Railroad, with the aid of the Minutemen, storm the Institute. Nora shoots Shaun dead, plants the fusion pulse charger and teleports away to the Mass Fusion building, where she watches the Institute get blown up. Overwhelmed with grief, Nora attempts suicide by jumping to her death, but is pulled back by Deacon.
Back at Railroad headquarters, Nora sees Liam dead. After giving a eulogy claiming Liam was killed by the Institute, Desdemona gives Nora Liam's suicide note and asks her to burn it. Enraged, Nora breaks Desdemona's leg, shows everyone else the note and leaves the Railroad.
In the season's final scene, Nora monologues to Nate's holotape while sitting on a couch in her old home in Sanctuary Hills.
===Season 5===
Driven into depression by Shaun's death, Nora becomes a recluse, spending weeks drinking in her old home at Sanctuary Hills. One day, Nick visits her and tells her about the Nakano family. She, Piper and Nick set off for the Nakano residence and speak to Taichi Nakano. After deducing that Kasumi left to Far Harbor, Nora sends Piper to tell the Railroad about them and leaves to Far Harbor with Nick.
At Far Harbor, Nora and Nick help the townsfolk fend off a Gulper invasion and meet a veteran hunter named Old Longfellow, who leads them to the synth colony Acadia. There they meet Acadia's leader DIMA. They find Kasumi, who tells them about her suspicions regarding DIMA. After Nora destroys the Nucleus, she brings Kasumi back home to her grandfather. Danse goes to live with his fellow Synths in Arcadia.
In the final scene, set in 2300, Nora, in an Assault Gas Mask and Courser uniform, raids a Legion camp in New Mexico and frees the slaves.
==Cast==
===Nora and Co.===
*Krysten Ritter as Eleanor Alicia "Nora" Davenport (née Lambert)/the Sole Survivor
*Donald Sutherland as Shaun Davenport
*Matt Bomer as Nathan "Nate" Davenport
*Natalia Dyer as Natalie "Piper" Wright
*Jodie Comer as Cait
*LaKeith Stanfield as Preston Garvey
*Aaron Paul as Rudolph Jude "R.J." MacCready
*Jensen Ackles as Paladin William Danse
*Anthony Carrigan as Deacon
*Steve Buscemi as John Hancock
*Stephen Russell as Codsworth and Nick Valentine
*Audrey Tautou as Curie
*Dave Bautista as Strong
*Ron Perlman as "Old" Thomas Longfellow
===Factions===
*Dave Bautista as Conrad Kellogg
*Michelle Yeoh as Madison Li
*BD Wong as Justin Ayo
*Finneas O'Connell as Liam "Patriot" Binet
*Laura Linney as Desdemona
*Janelle Monae as Glory
*Anson Mount as Elder Arthur Maxson
*Giancarlo Esposito as Lancer-Captain John Kells
*Julianne Moore as Proctor Melisha Ingram
===Other===
*Courteney Cox as Dr. Beverly Scara
*Jennifer Aniston as Dr. Elliot Duff
*Anthony Atamanuik as Mayor Patrick McDonough Jr.
*George Takei as Taichi Nakano
*Maria Zhang as Kasumi Nakano
*Camila Mendes as Isabel Cruz
*Dreama Walker as Sierra Petrovita
*Jason Statham as Overboss Colter
*Ann Dowd as Julia Martha "J.M." McGann
*Viola Davis as General Cynthia Braxton
YouTubers Brandon "Oxhorn" Dennis and Naiwal cameo as the Vault-Tec salesman and the newscaster announcing the bombs dropping respectively.
==Differences==
===Background Changes===
*The Sino-American War started after China invaded Taiwan in 2070.
*Maxson mentions that the Lone Wanderer sacrificed herself to activate Project Purity. Ashamed she didn't sacrifice herself in her place, Sarah committed suicide weeks later; or so the story goes.
===Character Changes===
*Nuka-Cola was invented by Julia Martha "J.M." McGann, who takes the place of John-Caleb Bradberton.
*General Braxton is also gender-swapped to General Cynthia Braxton, who Nora remembers giving a speech to her before her deployment to China.
*MacCready's full name is Rudolph Jude MacCready instead of Robert Joseph MacCready.
*MacCready and Maxson are significantly older. Maxson was a Knight at the time the Lone Wanderer died.
*Piper is actually Natalie "Nat" Wright. Nat's sister, the real Piper, who raised her after they were orphaned, was raped and murdered by Raiders while Natalie hid unarmed in a crate. Grief-stricken and guilt-ridden, Nat took her sister's name and dedicated herself to living how her sister would have, although Nat is unsure whether or not it is what she herself wants as well.
*Kasumi's parents were killed by Raiders and she was raised by her parental grandfather Taichi Nakano. With the exception of his daughter-in-law Rachel Nakano-Gordon and Nick, Taichi disdains other Americans, particularly Caucasian people, for bombing Japan and being part of the Great War, which he also dislikes the Chinese for.
*Cait frequently affects other accents depending on who she interacts with: posh RP with the Brotherhood, Cockney with the Railroad, a Boston accent (which she implies is her real accent) while in Diamond City, a New Yorker accent in Goodneighbour and a Texan accent with the Minutemen. She also speaks limited Russian and French.
*Dogmeat is Piper's pet dog.
===Plot Changes===
*While running to Vault 111, Nora falls and injures her right arm, resulting in her letting Nate hold Shaun.
*Shaun was kidnapped in 2200, making him 87 when Nora finally reunites with him.
*Sierra is kept as a slave by the Nuka World raiders until Nora frees her.
==Trivia==
*The show is non-canon.
*Nora's primary outfit changes from her Vault 111 suit to the Brotherhood Fatigues which Danse bestows on her after inducting her as a Brotherhood Initiate, then to a Courser uniform she recovers from Z2-47 after subduing him with his recall code. While in Far Harbor, she wears Black Fisherman's overalls.
*Nora's monologue at the end of Season 4 is a slightly edited version of YouTuber Naiwal's "Letter to Nora":
**"Hey. I, uh, I found him. Found our boy. He grew up a little bit, but he's a good looking kid. He definitely got that from you. But, um, I couldn’t keep my promise. I couldn’t bring him home. He’s so damn stubborn. He definitely got that from me. I’m so...angry all the time. Always jumping into danger, hoping something just...I don’t know what to fight for anymore. I’m not alone, I have friends that care about me and I care about them. But…this is their world. My world is buried with you. Here, I’m just a woman out of time. I love you, Nate. I’m sorry."
*The name Julia Martha "J.M." McGann is a portmanteau of Martha L. Gant and Julia McCann, John Pemberton and Caleb Bradham's respective mothers.
*Fallout 4's main theme plays during the opening credits.