Fallout Season 2 on Amazon Prime: Release Timeline, Story Teases, and Who’s Back in the Cast
Prime Video’s Fallout roared into 2024 as the year’s breakout apocalypse, with Ella Purnell and Walton Goggins anchoring a faithful, fan-thrilling take on the iconic game. Supercharged performances and a richly realized wasteland made Season 1 a must-watch—and set the stage for what’s next.
Amazon turned Fallout into a legit breakout in 2024, and now the show is finally steering into the part everyone was waiting for: New Vegas. Season 2 premieres in December, it is switching to a weekly rollout, and yes, Dogmeat is still along for the ride. A new poster just dropped with Ella Purnell and Walton Goggins front and center, and the whole thing looks bigger, meaner, and way more Mojave.
When it drops and how to watch
Season 2 premieres Wednesday, December 17, 2025 on Prime Video. Unlike Season 1, which arrived all at once, this run goes weekly on Wednesdays across eight episodes.
- Episode 1 — December 17, 2025
- Episode 2 — December 24, 2025
- Episode 3 — December 31, 2025
- Episode 4 — January 7, 2026
- Episode 5 — January 14, 2026
- Episode 6 — January 21, 2026
- Episode 7 — January 28, 2026
- Episode 8 — February 4, 2026
The road to New Vegas
The new season picks up right where we left off: Lucy MacLean and The Ghoul (with Dogmeat trotting along) head out from the Capital Wasteland toward the Mojave and that neon fever dream known as New Vegas. The show keeps the split-timeline approach, bouncing between the wasteland present and pre-2077 flashbacks to the lead-up to the Great War. Expect those past sequences to pull back the curtain on some nasty pre-apocalypse secrets.
Lucy is still reeling from the Season 1 bombshell that her dad, Hank MacLean, was a Vault-Tec exec tied to the Shady Sands catastrophe that killed thousands. As if that wasn’t enough, she also learned her mother became a Ghoul. So yeah, family dinner is complicated.
'They’re trying to influence each other and see who’s going to rub off on whom. Is the Ghoul going to become good? Is Lucy going to become bad? Or are they going to be somewhere in the middle?'
— Ella Purnell, via CBR, on the duo’s Season 2 dynamic
What the trailer is teasing
There is a lot for game fans to clock here, and the show isn’t shy about it:
Caesar’s Legion shows up looking like a full-on Roman-flavored war machine, and they seem very interested in taking New Vegas for themselves. The Brotherhood of Steel is in the mix too, focused on HELIOS One — a pre-war solar facility that basically acts like a power-and-influence cheat code in the Mojave. The Kings are back with their Elvis energy, but twist: they appear to be Ghouls now. Deathclaws stomp through the wasteland because of course they do. And Mr. House — the not-so-benevolent ruler of the Strip — is positioned as a major player again.
Who is back (and who just joined)
Ella Purnell returns as Lucy MacLean, with Walton Goggins pulling double duty as Cooper Howard and The Ghoul. Aaron Moten is back as Maximus. Kyle MacLachlan returns as Hank MacLean, while Moises Arias is Norm MacLean and Xelia Mendes-Jones is Dane.
Recurring faces include Justin Theroux as Robert Edwin House, Leslie Uggams as Betty Pearson, Johnny Pemberton as Thaddeus, Leer Leary as Davey, Frances Turner as Barb Howard, Teagan Meredith as Janey Howard, Michael Cristofer as Elder Cleric Quintus, and Jon Daly as the Snake Oil Salesman.
New arrivals: Macaulay Culkin pops in as a 'crazy genius-type character', and Kumail Nanjiani plays a high-ranking member of the Brotherhood of Steel. Great casting swings on both.
Odds and ends
A fresh Season 2 poster landed on October 23, 2025, showing off Ella Purnell and Walton Goggins. Behind the scenes, executive producers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy say this season digs deeper and darker into the corners the games explored (via GamesRadar). The renewal is already locked beyond that — Season 3 is not just ordered, it is in full production. If you need a refresher, Season 1 is streaming now on Prime Video.