Fallout Season 2 First-Look Images Show Walton Goggins' Cooper Howard on the New Vegas Strip in a Flashback

Ahead of its afloat uncover astatine Opening Night Live 2025 this week, we person the archetypal images of Fallout Season 2.

The images amusement Walton Goggins’ Cooper Howard successful a pre-war flashback connected the New Vegas strip. As announced, Fallout Season 2 is acceptable to caput into New Vegas territory, pursuing the pb acceptable by video crippled developer Obsidian Entertainment. In the representation we spot a reflection of the Lucky 38, the edifice and casino owned by Mr. House successful the New Vegas video game.

We besides spot Lucy (Ella Purnell) and the Ghoul (Cooper Howard successful post-apocalyptic form) connected a barren landscape, Max (Aaron Moten) wearing a caller outfit portion stepping retired with his Brotherhood of Steel brethren, and Kyle MacLachlan's Hank (Lucy's villanous father) successful what we deliberation is simply a caller presumption of powerfulness connected the New Vegas strip.

Fallout Season 1 deed Prime Video successful April 2024 and was an instant breakout hit. In May this year, Amazon announced a December 2025 merchandise model for Fallout Season 2, with thePrime Video amusement besides renewed for Season 3.

Warning! Potential spoilers for the Fallout TV amusement follow.

Fallout is confirmed to beryllium heading to New Vegas for Season 2, and it's not conscionable astir the determination itself. Mr. House is acceptable to beryllium a portion of the caller season, though however progressive he'll beryllium is unclear. We've already seen the tease of immoderate acquainted sights acknowledgment to erstwhile acceptable leaks, including this video that shows portion of New Vegas and the iconic Lucky 38 edifice and casino, each agleam and lit up. It's surely acold from the rusty spot you mightiness expect.

It’s worthy remembering wherever we are successful the Fallout timeline: the TV amusement is acceptable successful the twelvemonth 2296, aft each the Fallout video games. Fallout 4 takes spot successful the twelvemonth 2287, portion Fallout: New Vegas is acceptable successful the twelvemonth 2281, a afloat 15 years anterior to the events of the show.

So, what happened successful the 15 years since we past saw New Vegas? Co-showrunners Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet person said the mounting has changed, and explained wherefore that is important for fans to note.

“All we truly privation the assemblage to cognize is that things person happened, truthful that determination isn't an anticipation that we prime the amusement up successful Season 2, pursuing 1 of the myriad canon endings that beryllium connected your choices erstwhile you play [Fallout: New Vegas],” Wagner said past year.

“With that post-credits stuff, we truly wanted to imply, guys, the satellite has progressed, and the thought that the wasteland stays arsenic it is decade-to-decade is preposterous to us. It’s conscionable a spot [of] changeless tragedy, events, horrors — there's a changeless churn of trauma. We're decidedly implying much has occurred.”

But what volition hap erstwhile the Power Armor-clad Overseer Hank, played by Kyle MacLachlan, turns up (potentially aft a dustup with a Deathclaw)? Some speculate Mr. House, the enigmatic ruler of New Vegas successful the video crippled and dastardly brag of RobCo Industries successful the TV show’s flashbacks to earlier the bombs fell, whitethorn enlist the assistance of Hank to reconstruct New Vegas to its erstwhile glory. Perhaps, if that’s the mode the communicative goes, the forces of Mr. House and New Vegas volition extremity up taking connected the Brotherhood of Steel successful yet different Fallout faction battle, with Lucy, Maximus, and The Ghoul caught successful the middle.

While Season 3 is guaranteed, Max histrion Aaron Moten has said the “endpoint” of the Fallout TV amusement has it moving until Season 5 oregon Season 6.

We had a large clip with Season 1, penning successful IGN's Fallout The Series reappraisal that the amusement is "a agleam and comic apocalypse filled with acheronian punchlines and bursts of ultra-violence [and is] among the champion video crippled adaptations ever made," slapping it with a well-earned 9/10.

To assistance tide you implicit until Season 2, here's our interrogation with Todd Howard and Jonathan Nolan covering each our burning questions aft the extremity of Season 1.

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