Todd Howard Says Amazon’s Fallout Season 2 Built a Massive, Mostly Practical Set — New Vegas Fans, Get Ready
Grab a Nuka-Cola and brace for impact—Fallout season 2 is locked, loaded, and on its way.
Amazon is locking in Fallout season 2 for December 17, and yes, they are actually taking us to New Vegas. If you were hoping the show would stop teasing and finally plant a flag on the Mojave strip, that seems to be the plan.
Todd Howard says the New Vegas set is the real deal
Bethesda director Todd Howard just talked up season 2 on Future Games Show, and he sounds genuinely impressed with what the production built for New Vegas.
"I mean, look, the scale of New Vegas as a proper set is incredible."
He also emphasized that a surprising amount of it is practical, not just CG. Translation: they did not cheap out.
What season 2 is doing
- Date: December 17
- Where: New Vegas is the main setting
- The setup: The teaser picks up with Lucy (Ella Purnell) and the Ghoul on the trail of her father (Kyle MacLachlan) after his betrayal
- Production note: lots of large-scale, practical build-outs for the city
- Why that matters: 2010's Fallout: New Vegas is one of the most beloved entries in a series that has been around nearly three decades, so expectations are high
- Meta angle: the TV show has been "way more" popular than Howard expected, and Bethesda's teams have been making sure the games are ready for the wave of new players
Why fans are extra twitchy about this one
Howard basically admits season 2 is playing with a loaded deck. In season 1, outside of the Vaults, the show spent a lot of time in places that didn't come with baked-in player expectations. New Vegas does. People have literally walked those streets and stared at that skyline for hundreds of hours. He knows it. You know it. No pressure.
His read on the adaptation is that the team actually met the moment: massive scale, a ton of it done for real, and a look that should hit the exact mix of scorched, gaudy, and depressing that fans remember. Think irradiated postcard, but make it prestige TV.
Also worth noting: the show's success has already rippled back to the games. Howard says Fallout on TV was "way more" popular than he predicted, which is why the studio has been busy making sure the titles are ready for all the new and returning players diving in after each episode. Smart move, because if New Vegas lands the way it should, that number is not going down.