'Fallout' Season 2 Review

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Season Two. [Episodes 1 - 6]

Aired On: Prime Video.

Release Date: 12/16/25.

Genre: Action. Adventure. Drama. SciFi.

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The Verdict: A Must-See

The first season of Fallout, adapted from the popular video game RPG series, was a blast. It was a video game adaptation that understood the tongue-in-cheek humor and style of the video games while also never compromising genuinely exciting stakes and character drama. Not only giving us charming performances from newcoming Ella Parnell and Aaron Moten, but also iconic character roles for legendary television actors Walton Goggins and Kyle MacLaughlin. Towards the end of the show’s first season, we got a glimpse into the next location being explored in this wasteland: Vegas, baby! We were not only finally exploring what was already laid out in previous video game entries, but it was following possibly the Fallout game with the biggest cult following: Fallout - New Vegas. 

We start right where we left off - Vault Dweller Lucy and Ghoul Cooper Howard continue to track down Lucy’s father Hank after revelations found in the first season that Hank was one of the conspirators of the nuclear Armageddon that destroyed the entire world. This time they find themselves in the Mojave wasteland trekking through a dry radioactive landscape that will threaten almost their every move. Not only do they find new kinds of creatures in the wasteland, but they also find factions that had formed in this radioactive desert. One being the nefarious and brutal Caesar’s Legion, and the aforementioned New California Republic - who both have drastically different ideas on how to build back civilization in the post apocalypse. 

Fans of Fallout: New Vegas will find themselves right at home. So many iconic locations and characters are given their due respect here especially the eccentric Robert House played here by Justin Theroux who gives an incredibly interesting spin on the character. Lucy and Cooper’s journey through the Mojave is also really fun and gripping as they seek for their own meaning of justice in a lawless land just beginning to become civilized again. However, under the surface of everything, they unknowingly ignite conflicts that have been boiling up for decades before they even joined up together. As someone who loves Fallout: New Vegas with all their heart, even may consider it my favorite video game, I was fawning over every single detail that this show brought back from that game, and was having the time of my life seeing how Lucy and Cooper navigated the Mojave. 

Fallout is back, baby! As this is possibly the biggest the franchise has ever been, it’s so amazing to see so much love and attention given to already established details that were laid out before this show was even considered being made. It’s funnier, meaner, tenser, but more importantly bigger as it’s finally giving life-long Fallout fans what they’ve always wanted out of a Fallout adaptation.

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