Fallout Season 2: When Will The Second Season Be Released?
Fallout Season 2 will be there: after the great and immediate success of the first season of the TV series inspired by the video games of the same name, Prime Video has officially announced the renewal for season 2. And so if you started watching Fallout, you liked it as much as everyone liked it us and you have seen it until the end, it is likely that at this point you are wondering when it will be released and what Fallout Season 2 will be about: let’s put in order the information and hypotheses currently available.
Given that Fallout was one of the biggest hits in Amazon Prime Video’s history, many are wondering when the second season will be released on the streaming service. The Fallout television series is not a direct adaptation of an installment of the popular Fallout video game series but is still set in the same universe. Unlike other popular Prime Video series like Invincible, The Rings of Power, or The Boys, Fallout released all 8 episodes of the first season on the same day, leaving fans immediately wanting to see the second.
The Success of Fallout
In the first four days of arriving on Prime Video, the series ranked among the top three most-watched titles ever on Amazon’s streaming platform and is the most-watched globally since The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
“The expectations of lovers of the iconic video game were very high, we seem to have exceeded their expectations and they are also joined by millions of new fans of the franchise. The cast led by Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, Walton Goggins, and Kyle MacLachlan has done a masterful job,” said Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon MGM Studios.
“Praise goes to our insanely brilliant showrunners, Guinevere and Graham, to our killer cast, to Todd and James and all the Bethesda legends, to Jen, Vernon, and the amazing team at Amazon for their incredible support in making this show happen. We can’t wait to make the world explode again,” said Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, Kilter Films.
“Good heavens. Thank you, Jonah, Kilter, Bethesda, and Amazon for having the courage to make a show that seriously addresses all of today’s biggest problems – cannibalism, incest, and jelly pie. More to come!” said Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner, executive producers, creators and co-showrunners.
“It was one of the most spectacular projects we’ve ever been a part of. Jonah and his team did an incredible job, and we are thrilled not only with the reaction to the show but also to be able to work with these amazing people,” said Todd Howard, executive producer at Bethesda Game Studios.
What Fallout Season 2 Would Be About?
Historic fans of Fallout role-playing video games have clear ideas about this: in the last scene, you can see the skyline of New Vegas, the main setting of Fallout: New Vegas, a game released in 2010. However, it must be considered that the first season did not adapt any game in particular, rather presenting new characters. So, it could also be that Fallout Season 2 is not the specific adaptation of Fallout: New Vegas.
When Will Fallout Season 2 Release?
While Fallout Season 1 was a huge success in terms of popularity and viewership, fans will likely have to wait a while before Season 2 starts streaming. The second season hasn’t started filming yet because Amazon didn’t renew the series until after the first season was released. It’s important to remember that video game adaptations are not historically held in high regard. So it’s likely that the company wanted to see Fallout‘s reception before moving forward. Since the second season was only greenlit on April 19, it will still have to go through pre-production before it can begin filming. At the moment it has not been confirmed when filming will begin, but according to some rumors, it could begin as early as the summer months. The first season began on July 5, 2022, and did not end until March 28, 2023. Before releasing on April 10, 2024 (21 months after filming began).
If season two follows a similar timetable (and assuming filming begins in the summer), production likely won’t wrap until 2025. So, given that it will still have to go through post-production, Fallout Season 2 will likely start streaming not before 2026. It’s also important to remember that other Prime Video series like The Rings of Power, The Boys, and Reacher all have a gap of at least a year and a half between seasons. This further adds to the possibility that Fallout Season 2 won’t be released until at least 2026.
What will Happen in the Second Season?
Since Lucy’s father, Hank MacLean, appeared to be traveling to New Vegas in the season 1 finale, most of the events will take place there. In the finale, Lucy and the Ghoul teamed up to hunt down Hank. Since Ghoul’s goal is to find out everything he can about his family (and since Hank seemed to know some information about them). The two could play a role in the second season. It’s also possible that Lucy’s brother Norm will finally make it out of Vault 31 in season 2. Many avenues Season Two could go down. Fans can expect the story to be continued at least in some way. Especially with the likely return of many of the fan-favorite actors and characters. What do you think? Let us know with a comment.
What Does New Vegas Mean if You’ve Never Played Fallout?
Now that you’ve seen the TV show, you know that Fallout follows an alternative timeline to the one we know. In his world, the post-war period had very different outcomes. In the world of Fallout, America has never evolved, culturally, since the 1950s, so Ink Spots and Elvis are still at the top of the charts forever, and cars still have the pointed headlights from that era. Not only that: microchips are something never seen before because science has bet everything on nuclear power and that’s it. In 2077, decades of conflict over dwindling global resources have led to an atomic war between the United States and China, triggered, as we discover at the end of the show, by Vault-Tec. The video game saga is set later. In the first game we find ourselves in 2161, in the second in 2241, in the third in 2277, and so on, growing. The series, however, takes us straight to 2296, with flashbacks that show the period just before the nuclear catastrophe, when what we know as the Ghoul (a type of post-apocalyptic conscious undead) played by Walton Goggins is still the actor of Westerns and commercials Cooper Howard.
Fallout: New Vegas, set in 2281, is one of the most loved chapters by fans of the saga and video games in general. Released in 2010, it was developed by Obsidian Entertainment, whose development staff was partially composed of designers and programmers who had worked on original Fallout games, released before the change of ownership to Bethesda Softworks in the mid-2000s. New Vegas is not only beloved, but it is also intended as a classic and the most authentic sequel to the games on which the saga is founded after Fallout 3 moved the action from California to Washington, D.C., and controversially retconned several elements of the canonical editions. Last but not least, New Vegas takes over some characters, factions, and plots from Fallout Season 2.
As the subtitle suggests, it is set in New Vegas, which in the Fallout universe was home to the Lucky 38 casino of which a huge tower remains which is seen in the final shot of New Vegas of the show. It is essentially the home and headquarters of an immensely powerful businessman called Robert House, the Elon Musk of the video game. On TV we glimpsed him during the pre-war flashback centered on a meeting of Vault-Tec and other tech companies determined to put an end to the world and then recreate it in their image (to be clear, he’s the guy who looks like Walt Disney and leads RobCo).
In New Vegas canon, House predicted the nuclear Fallout a few decades before the others and set to work setting up elaborate missile defenses around the city in time. For this reason, New Vegas appears mostly still intact compared to Los Angeles, Washington DC, and Boston, although its defenses have not stopped all the bombs. In 2281, the city became the scene of a war between the New California Republic, a sprawling military democracy based in California, and Caesar’s Legion, a group of fanatics from the Roman Empire led by a boy named… Caesar.
Introduced in the final scene of the show, this location, as can be deduced from what has just been said, is important and is proposed as the place where the second season will most likely take place. In this regard, there is another important detail to take into account. We know that the series follows the canon of Bethesda games and in particular Fallout 5. So, by moving the action to New Vegas, the ending of season 2 should adhere to that of the game, which is open and is based on some variations in the decisions of the player. A post-credits animation in the finale gives us a tour of the New Vegas of 2296, and it looks a lot worse than it was last seen in Fallout: New Vegas. It was remembered as a safe and secure hedonistic playground that attracted tourists from the Republic of New California, but here it appears in ruins, suggesting that something drastically terrible has happened in the 15 years since the events chronicled in Fallout: New Vegas.
Why Fallout Moves to New Vegas?
Well, that’s a million-bottle cap question. After the first season, we know that Hank has been secretly affiliated with Vault-Tec the entire time, that he was born before the Great War, and that he was in a cryopod in Vault 31 for more than a century only to be awakened with the task of passing leading Vault 33. Fleeing from the battle that ended the last episode, he seems headed for New Vegas, probably to report to his boss, who we don’t know at the moment. It could be Robert House, but also Barb, Cooper’s wife, who is also involved in Vault-Tec’s evil conspiracy to destroy the world and recolonize it with “chosen people.” Meanwhile, the Ghoul and Lucy (played by Ella Purnell) leave the same tragic scene in search of answers, but above all in pursuit of Hank, on the long road to Nevada. Perhaps New Vegas is also the place where the Ghoul can hope to find his family again, after all these decades. But what will Lucy do when she reaches her father, now that she knows he destroyed the Shady Sands settlement and exiled her mother so she suffered that bombing and turned into a zombie? We all can’t wait to find out.
