Commonwealth (TV Series)

**Commonwealth** is a 2023 American post-apocalyptic drama TV series. It is based on *Fallout 4*. It has 5 seasons.

## Premise

After spending 223 years in cryostasis, Nora Barnes escapes from Vault 111 and embarks on a quest to save her son Shaun.

## Cast

### Wang Family

* Krysten Ritter as Eleanor "Nora" Barnes
* Jeremy Irons as Shaun Barnes

### Companions

* John David Washington as Preston Garvey
* Natalia Dyer as Piper Wright
* Jodie Comer as Caitlyn "Cait" O'Malley
* Aaron Paul as Robert Joseph "RJ" MacCready
* Jensen Ackles as Paladin William Danse
* Anthony Carrigan as Deacon
* Steve Buscemi as John Hancock
* Stephen Russell as Codsworth
* Ron Perlman as Nick Valentine
* Audrey Tautou as Curie
* Dave Bautista as Strong
* Donald Sutherland as Old Longfellow
* Jon Bernthal as Porter Gage

### Factions

* Hannah Waddingham as Allie Filmore
* Henry Golding as Justin Ayo
* Gemma Chan as Madison Li
* Liam Neeson as James O'Malley
* Laura Linney as Desdemona
* Janelle Monae as Glory
* Jon Hamm as Arthur Maxson
* Ving Rhames as Lancer-Captain John Kells
* Julianne Moore as Proctor Melisha Ingram

### Other

* Violet McGraw as Natalie "Nat" Wright
* Dreama Walker as Sierra Petrovita
* Peter Greene as Joseph James "the Fens Phantom" Nicolosi

Todd Howard cameos as Steven White, the Vault-Tec salesman.

## Differences

### General

* Pre-War society is shown to be more socially backwards; Sanctuary Hills is ethnically homogenous with Caucasian heterosexual couples with the exception of Nate and Nora. Gay and interracial marriage are mentioned to be banned. America is under One-Party Rule under the Republican Party, which declared the Democratic Party enemies of the state and purged them a century ago. Pre-War and post-war civilians are also hostile towards the Chinese and refer to them with racial slurs.
* The Institute were not the Commonwealth Institute of Technology but instead Vault-Tec, who were founded in London instead of America before being contracted by the US government to build vaults over America. Due to being raised by English scientists, Shaun has a British accent.

### Characters

* Nora met Nate while in boot camp and they served in the Army together. He went AWOL after impregnating her, leaving her to be a single mother. She was on maternity leave at the time the bombs dropped.
* Nora's cryopod is shut off along with the rest; he is heavily implied to be a Synth.
* Ironically, due to not having a formal education in her childhood, Piper is illiterate. Nat writes all of the Publick Occurrences articles herself with Piper going out to search for news and dictating it to her. All of her "notes" are drawings.
* While Piper is in exile, Nat writes Publick Occurrences articles by herself, occasionally visiting Piper at the gate to give her supplies and to get news from the outside.
* Cait:
	+ Cait recalls that her parents molested her as a child and sold her into slavery when she was 12. She escaped from bondage and murdered them with a baseball bat.
	+ Cait's baseball bat is a barbed grey baseball bat nicknamed Connemara.
	+ By the time Nate and Piper arrived, the Raiders took over the Combat Zone, killed Tommy Lonegan and kept Cait prisoner in a cage, planning to rape and murder her later.
	+ As shown on a Combat Zone ledger, Cait's full name is Caitlyn O'Malley, although she is adamant on only being referred to as Cait.
* Desdemona is a Synth.
* The Vault-Tec salesman is named Steven White.
* Maxson is significantly older.
* Dogmeat is a mutt of indiscernible heritage rather than a purebred German Shepherd.
* Curie's Miss Nanny body is physically deteriorating and is one of the reasons why she requests to be transferred to a Synth body.
* The Fens Phantom is alive as a Pre-War ghoul. His true identity is Joseph Nicolosi, the Sanctuary Hills HOA President.

### Story

* Nora doesn't wake up when Kellogg kidnaps Shaun, only waking up in 2277 to find her son missing and her neighbours rotting in their cryopods.
* After rescuing Preston and the Minutemen and guiding them to Sanctuary Hills, Nora and Codsworth stick around for a week to rebuild Sanctuary Hills before heading to Diamond City alone.
* On the way, Nora meets Danse and helps him clear ArcJet systems in exchange for supplies, equipment, caps and directions to Diamond City. Danse also escorts Nora to Diamond City but returns to the station as soon as the gates are in sight.
* Piper is permanently exiled from Diamond City. After cleverly tricking her way past the gates, she is immediately thrown back out. Nora learns Ellie Perkins is absent from Valentine's office, having went missing trying to find him. Piper joins up with Nora when she returns and follows her to rescue Nick.
* Nora and Piper accidentally stumbles upon the Combat Zone while trying to find Nick. After killing the Raiders, Cait convinces them to free her and let her join them.
* Nora, Piper and Cait stumble upon Old North Church and enter Railroad headquarters. Deacon convinces them to help clear the Switchboard with him and Desdemona recruits them. Nora takes the codename Bullseye, Piper goes with Charmer and Cait says the Railroad is stupid and refuses to join. The Railroad track down Nick and Nate, Cait, Piper and Deacon free him. Deacon leaves to Railroad HQ afterwards.
* Despite Nora not seeing or hearing who kidnapped Shaun and how, Nick infers that Kellogg kidnapped him due to the M.O. matching and Kellogg staying in Diamond City with a boy recently. Nick manages to lockpick the door, finds a map to Fort Hagen and accompanies Nora there.
* After killing Kellogg and looting the cybernetic brain augmenter from him, Nora and Nick proceed to Goodneighbour. After being unplugged, Nick immediately returns to Diamond City.
* Using a Hazmat Suit she found at the Switchboard, Nora ventures out into the Glowing Sea and find Virgil.
* When Nora returns, Danse finds her on the road to Sanctuary, brings him aboard the Prydwen and gets her to officially join the Brotherhood. Nora uses her new Power Armour to fight off the Gunners and Coursers at Greenetech Genetics.
* After getting the new schematics from Virgil, Nora enlists the help of the Brotherhood to build the Molecular Relay.
* Upon entering the Institute, Nora is lured into a glass cage and Shaun introduces himself as the Director of the Institute. He explains that he didn't know of her until recently and was unable to properly isolate her and bring her back. When Nora returns to the surface, she hands the network scanner to Proctor Ingram.
* After leaving the Institute, Nora hires MacCready, rescues Strong, discovers Vault 81 and rescues Curie and takes part in Bobbi No-Nose's heist, betrays and kills her and recruits Hancock.
* Vault 81 allows Nora in without requesting Fusion Cores.
* Nora initially helps Shaun recall Gabriel. Shaun has his meeting where he declares his intent to have Nora succeed him as Director and announces that he has cancer. He also tells Nora privately that Danse is a Synth, gives her his recall code and urges her to bring him home.
* The Brotherhood learn of Danse's true nature early and order Nora to execute him. Nora ends up sparing Danse, but is unable to convince Maxson to do so and activates his recall code. Danse turns hostile and kills Maxson and Nora reluctantly returns him to the Institute.
* During the Battle of Bunker Hill, Nora lets the Synths go and is subsequently banished from the Institute.
* Nora destoys the Institute with the Minutemen.
* After Nora kills McDonough when he is exposed as a Synth, she convinces the city council to reverse Piper's banishment, allowing her to move back in with Nat.