First Look at FALLOUT Season 2 Takes Us to the Mojave and New Vegas, Baby!
Amazon has shared our first look at Fallout Season 2, and while the images don’t spill all the irradiated beans, they definitely tease one of the franchise’s most iconic locations… New Vegas. Fans of Fallout: New Vegas have been waiting a long time to see the Mojave Wasteland come to life in live-action, and now we’re finally getting a glimpse of what’s in store.
The new stills catch us up with the key characters we met in Season 1: Lucy (Ella Purnell) is out in the wasteland with The Ghoul (Walton Goggins), probably still trying to survive and make sense of the twisted world around her.
Maximus (Aaron Moten) is shown sticking with the Brotherhood of Steel following his split from Lucy during their clash with the NCR. Back in the Vaults, Norm (Moisés Arias) appears to be digging deeper into the mysteries, now observing people from Vault 31, which doesn’t exactly scream “safe space” after what he uncovered last season.
Meanwhile, Hank MacLean (Kyle MacLachlan) is still out there scheming. Now cleaned up and free from Lucy, Hank’s role as a cryo-frozen Vault-Tec exec set to reclaim civilization is shaping up to be even more sinister. If Season 1 revealed the mask, Season 2 might show us what he does without it.
Then there are two intriguing flashback photos. These feature the Ghoul before he became, the Ghoul. As Cooper Howard, he’s seen with his wife Barb (Frances Turner) in what appears to be pre-war Las Vegas.
We already know that Cooper was uncovering some dark truths about Vault-Tec and his wife’s involvement in the lead-up to the Great War. Now it looks like we’ll be diving deeper into the events that pushed him over the edge and into the irradiated wild.
Longtime game fans know that the city survived the nuclear apocalypse better than most, thanks to the influence of Robert House (briefly portrayed in Season 1 by Rafi Silver). In the game, House used RobCo Industries to turn the city into a fortress, shielding it from most of the devastation.
He later revives it as New Vegas, controlled from the Lucky 38 casino and run by three families including the Chairmen, the Omertas, and the White Glove Society.
That final still seems to hint at House’s future empire, with a little nod to the Lucky 38. So it’s looking like we’ll be jumping between pre-war Las Vegas and the post-war New Vegas.
Fallout is expected to make an appearance at Gamescom's opening ceremony in Cologne, Germany tomorrow, so we’ll likely get more footage or news there.
Fallout returns to Prime Video this December. Check out the images below and tell us what you think!
