We filmed that day the morning after the premiere of The White Lotus; I had about three hours of sleep. I just had nothing left in the tank; it was exactly where I needed to be for that day,
If the first four episodes of sometimes felt meandering, indulgent, lost in the Wasteland's desert, then the showdown between House and Coop in the fifth episode, "The Wrangler," comes as a thrilling course correction. The fantastically acted duel between Walton Goggins and Justin Theroux rearranges Fallout's chessboard and makes it feel like the series is finally pushing itself in a new direction regarding what we do, or don't, know about how the U.S. stumbled into a nuclear holocaust.
Though most assumed that Silver had been replaced, he returned as Mr. House - or, at least, a version of him - in the very first episode of Fallout's new season. So did Theroux; while Silver's House appears on television, his House looks on from a seedy New Vegas bar. The truth becomes clear before long, but in Episode 5, Fallout finally lays it out plain.
We've already seen a full season of Amazon Prime Video's hit series, and while so much of the post-apocalyptic video game is accurately depicted without directly adapting, there's one element that hasn't popped up yet: deathclaws, the ultra-powerful monsters that appear over and over in Fallout games, much to players' chagrin. Not much is known about these mutated lizard monsters, but Fallout Season 2 finally revealed a key part of their backstories - and it goes back even further than fans first thought.
Prime' Video's Fallout was one of the hottest shows of 2023, and long-time gamers and post-apocalyptic fantasy fans are united in their excitement for season two. Fallout, which is based on the video game of the same name, arrives on Prime Video for a second series on Tuesday (16 December), and returning trans star Xelia Mendes-Jones is set to make more waves as non-binary character Dane.
Prime Video has released a new trailer for Fallout Season 2 ahead of its debut in December, and it shows off two of the new cast members for the sophomore season: Macaulay Culkin and Kumail Nanjiani. We don't know much about the characters they are playing, but we see Nanjiani's character getting called in for a battle and Culkin's character murdering someone. The trailer also spotlights one of the new settings for Season 2, New Vegas, and overall includes numerous spoilers.