Lucy Star Teases Pivotal Twists for Fallout Season 2
Fallout Season 2 is closing in on Prime Video, and Ella Purnell is cracking the vault on what’s next—teasing pivotal turns for Lucy MacLean and a bigger, deadlier wasteland.
Fallout is back on the road. Literally. Ella Purnell just sketched out what Season 2 looks like, and it sounds like a messy, high-stakes road trip for Lucy and the Ghoul that swings between uneasy partnership and outright hostility. Also, get ready for New Vegas. Yes, that New Vegas.
So what are Lucy and the Ghoul up to?
Purnell told Empire that Season 2 pairs up her Vault 33 optimist with Walton Goggins' gunslinging nightmare for a dangerous trek across the wasteland. It is part reluctant team-up, part moral tug-of-war.
'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?'
That push-pull sounds like the spine of the season: two survivors stuck in the same car, testing how far each will bend before they break.
Quick refresher on where Season 1 left us
- Lucy discovered her dad, Hank MacLean, was actually a former Vault-Tec employee who had been cryo-frozen for centuries and then brought back.
- Hank woke up, caused chaos, and bailed by hijacking Maximus' power armor.
- Lucy decided to track him down and, yep, teamed up with the Ghoul to do it.
- Season 2 takes them to the post-apocalyptic city of New Vegas.
About that New Vegas detour
Purnell confirmed the season heads to New Vegas, which should perk up anyone who has ever lost a weekend to that corner of the Fallout games. Expect show-sized spectacle with a moral hangover — the kind of playground where Lucy's sunny outlook and the Ghoul's scorched-earth philosophy are guaranteed to clash.
Apparently we are also getting some big talky showdowns
This bit is a curveball (in a good way). Purnell says there are a few scenes that slow down and swing hard with character and ideas — her comparison is not subtle:
'We have a couple of really incredible scenes that are just these big, heavyweight bouts of intellect. It was like doing Waiting for Godot in the middle of the whole thing.'
So, gunfights, mutant horrors, and then suddenly an existential duel of wits. I am not mad at that mix.
When to watch
Fallout Season 2 premieres on Prime Video on December 17, 2025.
(If you need a reminder: Purnell plays Lucy MacLean and also voices Jinx in Arcane; Walton Goggins is the Ghoul. The buddy-road-trip energy she teases here came straight from her Empire interview.)