We have good news and more good news about Season 2 of Amazon’s hit video game adaptation, Fallout. The post-apocalyptic dramedy series launched back in April, 2024 to rave reviews and a surprising lack of controversy (though some diehard fans of the game were upset by changes to lore). Now, Season 2 is just around the corner.
Fallout takes place in a radiant future. A mysterious nuclear war decimated the surface of the planet in the year 2077, killing billions and leaving topside a deadly wasteland filled with mutants, monsters and ne’er-do-wells. The story picks up roughly 200 years after the devastation.
Fallout stars Ella Purnell as Lucy MacLean, a Vault dweller who leaves her (quite literally) sheltered life to go to the surface and save her father, Hank (Kyle MacLachlan). Walton Goggins plays The Ghoul (aka Cooper Howard), a mutant bodyguard with a ton of juicy backstory. Rounding out the trio of protagonists, we have Maximus (Aaron Moten) a squire in the mech-wearing Brotherhood of Steel, on a quest of his own. The season ended with some shocking revelations as our heroes set out for New Vegas, the location made famous by the video game, Fallout: New Vegas.
The good news is that Fallout Season 2 premieres this week. The better news is that Amazon pushed up the release date to Tuesday, December 16. The first episode drops at 6pm PT / 9pm ET with episodes releasing weekly. The announcement was made in Las Vegas, NV on the Exosphere, transforming the Sphere into a “post-apocalyptic snow globe” replete with a giant Deathclaw.
The weekly release schedule is a big change from Season 1, which dropped all 8 episodes on the same day. This is also good news. As sad as it is that fans won’t be able to binge the entire season, this keeps the conversation around the show alive for weeks, with everyone on the same page. That’s more fun when it comes to big surprises, fan theories and major twists. In fact, I said as much when Season 1 landed, arguing:
“We’ll still be talking about Shogun next week (when the series finale airs) but Fallout will be yesterday’s news. Instead of six or seven weeks watching (and coming up with fan theories like we did for Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s HBO show Westworld) we’ll all just move on with our lives. And that’s a real shame, because Fallout is genuinely great.”
I’m glad Amazon listened. If you’re a binge-watcher and this news upsets you, feel free to blame me on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook.
