Amazon has released a new trailer for Fallout Season 2 that gives us our best look yet at the upcoming Prime Video show.
The trailer shows The Ghoul and Lucy make their way to New Vegas, which appears populated in the brief look we get in the clip. There are even Elvis Ghouls strutting their stuff, so there’s that. Thaddeus, who in Season 1 was injected with a mystery serum that appeared to make him immune to radiation, has a horrible mouth thing growing in his collarbone. Speaking of the mystery serum, the snake-oil salesman who gave it to him is back.
Elsewhere, the residents of Vault 33 (the one Hank MacLean and his daughter, Lucy are from) emerge into the wasteland, presumably ripe for a reality check. Lucy is on a mission to bring her father to "justice." Speaking of which, Hank looks like he's having a lovely time dressing to impress and performing a horrible experiment of some kind.
The Ghoul then turns up at a New California Republic camp, where, it sounds, he is asked to join the faction's cause. But against what? Ceasar's Legion? The Brotherhood of Steel? Whatever the case, we're told a civil war is coming.
At one point we see The Ghoul and Lucy turn up at a vault, with The Ghoul revealing he's been "wastelanding" for 200 years for one reason: to find his family. Their fate is unclear following the events of Season 1 and the nuclear war that caused the wasteland to come into being.
There’s also a shot of Mr. House on a TV, similar to how he appears in the New Vegas video game, and what sounds very much like Ron Perlman's voice. Ron Perlman, of Hellboy fame, famously narrates the Fallout video game franchise's iconic "war never changes" prologue line, as well as its myriad endings. Also confirmed are newcomers Kumail Nanjiani and Macaulay Culkin. Maximus turns up on the strip, wearing a suit of Fallout’s iconic Power Armor, and goes up against a deathclaw. Good luck!
The highly anticipated eight-episode season premieres on December 17, 2025, with one episode rolling out weekly until the season finale on February 4, 2026. Fallout Season 1 amassed more than 100 million viewers worldwide, ranking among Prime Video's top three most-watched titles ever.
The series stars Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets, Sweetpea), Aaron Moten (Emancipation, Father Stu), Walton Goggins (The White Lotus, The Righteous Gemstones), Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks), Moisés Arias (The King of Staten Island), and Frances Turner (The Boys).
It’s worth remembering where we are in the Fallout timeline: the TV show is set in the year 2296, after all the Fallout video games. Fallout 4 takes place in the year 2287, while Fallout: New Vegas is set in the year 2281, a full 15 years prior to the events of the show.
So, what happened in the 15 years since we last saw New Vegas? Co-showrunners Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet have said the setting has changed, and explained why that is important for fans to note.
“All we really want the audience to know is that things have happened, so that there isn't an expectation that we pick the show up in Season 2, following one of the myriad canon endings that depend on your choices when you play [Fallout: New Vegas],” Wagner said last year.
“With that post-credits stuff, we really wanted to imply, guys, the world has progressed, and the idea that the wasteland stays as it is decade-to-decade is preposterous to us. It’s just a place [of] constant tragedy, events, horrors — there's a constant churn of trauma. We're definitely implying more has occurred.”
Some speculate Mr. House, the enigmatic ruler of New Vegas in the video game and dastardly boss of RobCo Industries in the TV show’s flashbacks to before the bombs fell, may enlist the help of Hank to restore New Vegas to its former glory. Perhaps, if that’s the way the story goes, the forces of Mr. House and New Vegas will end up taking on the Brotherhood of Steel in yet another Fallout faction battle, with Lucy, Maximus, and The Ghoul caught in the middle.
While Season 3 is guaranteed, Max actor Aaron Moten has said the “endpoint” of the Fallout TV show has it running until Season 5 or Season 6.
We had a great time with Season 1, writing in IGN's Fallout The Series review that the show is "a bright and funny apocalypse filled with dark punchlines and bursts of ultra-violence [and is] among the best video game adaptations ever made," slapping it with a well-earned 9/10.
To help tide you over until Season 2, here's our interview with Todd Howard and Jonathan Nolan covering all our burning questions after the end of Season 1.
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New Fallout Season 2 trailer delivers the moment fans are desperate for