Prime Video has dropped an prolonged teaser for the much-anticipated second season of Fallout, broadly thought of to be among the many greatest TV variations of a gaming franchise. In our 2024 year-end roundup, Ars senior editor Samuel Axon wrote that the primary season gave us “a selected cocktail of tongue-in-cheek humor, sci-fi campiness, robust themes, nice characters, and visceral violence [that] got here collectively right into a improbable present.” The second season seems like it is going to deliver us extra of the identical, together with a serious new character drawn from the Fallout: New Vegas recreation. We even received a glimpse of a Deathclaw.
(Minor spoilers for S1 beneath.)
For the uninitiated, Fallout is ready two centuries after nuclear warfare between the US and China destroyed civilization in 2077—an alternate historical past model of 2077, during which post-World Battle II nuclear know-how ushered in a retrofuturistic society. Some fortunate survivors took refuge in numerous underground vaults; others had been left to scavenge a meager existence on the extremely radioactive floor.
In S1, we met Lucy MacLean (Ella Purnell), a younger lady whose vault is raided by floor dwellers. The raiders kill many vault residents and kidnap her father Hank (Kyle MacLachlan), so the sheltered Lucy units out on a quest to search out him. Life on the floor is fairly brutal, however Lucy learns quick. Alongside the way in which, she finds an ally (and love curiosity) in Maximus (Aaron Moten), a squire masquerading as a knight of the Brotherhood of Metal. And she or he runs afoul of a gunslinger and bounty hunter referred to as the Ghoul (Walton Goggins), a former Hollywood actor named Cooper Howard who survived the unique nuclear blast, however radiation publicity turned him into, properly, a ghoul.
