We’re officially one step closer to returning to the wasteland and visiting New Vegas. Ella Purnell announced on Instagram that Season 2 of the smash-hit Fallout has wrapped filming, sharing a photo of her with her on-screen dad, Kyle MacLachlan. The update marks the end of a months-long production beginning in November and starts the countdown before the new episodes drop on Prime Video. Assuming a similar post-production schedule to the first run, Lucy and Hank MacLean could be back on our screens in a bit over a year, landing the premiere sometime within the spring or summer of 2026.
Season 2 of Fallout will heavily revolve around both Lucy and Hank after the final confrontation at the Griffith Observatory in Season 1. The finale finally brought the show’s three leads — the aforementioned vault dweller, the Brotherhood of Steel member Maximus (Aaron Moten), and The Ghoul, formerly known as Cooper Howard (Walton Goggins) — together in the hunt for Moldaver (Sarita Choudhury) and the cold fusion technology in Siggi Wilzig’s (Michael Emerson) head. However, Lucy receives bombshell after bombshell about who her father, whom she came to save, really is, and the horrible things he’s done. Once he’s cornered after the arrival of the others, Hank flees in a suit of power armor with his apparent destination being New Vegas. Lucy and The Ghoul set off in pursuit of him to get the answers they both need and to finally speak to whoever might be behind the wheel of the chaos in the wasteland.
The director of the game series, Todd Howard, has assured that the show will work to do justice to the open-ended nature of Fallout: New Vegas in Season 2, even if there are bound to be some changes to fit the new story being told by creators Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet. Fallout is set roughly 15 years after the events of New Vegas and explores how these new characters fit into the world left behind by the games as they go about their own journeys, whether it’s Lucy entering the wasteland for the first time to find her dad or The Ghoul searching for his long-lost family. The approach of creating something new that links up with the games earned widespread praise and record-breaking viewership for Prime Video, but Goggins believes the best is yet to come. In an interview with Complex last month, he described how the show “takes it to a whole other level” now that everyone has become so familiar with the ultra-violent, often silly realities of the post-apocalypse:
“Now that people understand what the world is, this story just takes it to a whole other level. I’ve been around a long time, and usually, a show that people are attracted to. With that license, the second season really starts cooking, right? That’s when some real magic can happen. It says a lot about a lot. It stays in these lanes of the tone that was kinda set but also veers outside of them in the most interesting ways.”
‘Fallout’ Season 2 Brings More Talent to the Wasteland
When Fallout does eventually return, it’ll likely have a host of new stars to work with. The biggest new addition announced so far is that of Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin, who is said to be playing a “crazy genius-type character.” More names are likely to be announced as the season draws closer, though there are also certain to be plenty of returning stars from Season 1. The original cast featured Purnell, Goggins, Moten, MacLachlan, Choudhury, and Emerson alongside Moisés Arias, Leslie Uggams, Frances Turner, Dave Register, Zach Cherry, Johnny Pemberton, Rodrigo Luzzi, Annabel O’Hagan, and Xelia Mendes-Jones.
There is no release date yet for Fallout Season 2, but Season 1 can be streamed on Prime Video in the meantime. Stay tuned here at Collider for more as the series nears its return. Check out Purnell’s announcement above. Goggins has also since posted a video on Instagram peeling off his Ghoul makeup to signify the end of production.
via Collider