Fallout Season 2 has its debut trailer fresh from Opening Night Live 2025, revealing a first look at the hotly anticipated Amazon TV show and confirming a December 17, 2025 release date.
Season 2 sees Walton Goggins’ Ghoul and Ella Purnell’s Lucy finally get to New Vegas, the post-apocalyptic setting made famous by Obsidian Entertainment’s much-loved Fallout: New Vegas video game. Max (Aaron Moten) sports a new outfit as his Brotherhood of Steel brethren prepare for conflict, and Kyle MacLachlan’s Hank (Lucy’s villainous father) is in a position of power on the strip.
Season Two greetings, Vaulties. Starting December 17, the Wasteland is your new home for the holidays. pic.twitter.com/y2WRngDwLY
— FALLOUT⚡️ (@falloutonprime) August 19, 2025
We also get a look at flashback scenes (Season 1 has plenty of them). Here, Goggins’ Cooper Howard arrives at pre-war New Vegas and enjoys Lucky 38, the resort and casino owned by Mr. House (we get a first look at Justin Theroux as Mr. House in Season 2). Cooper looks set for a pre-war confrontation with Mr. House and his wife, last seen plotting the end of the world. Will we get the truth behind the start of the nuclear war?
And in a brief tease, we finally get a look at a Deathclaw, perhaps Fallout’s most intimidating monster. Speaking on-stage at gamescom, Purnell talked about Lucy’s journey in Season 2. “The question is, what is she going to do when she finds her dad? Is she going to give him wasteland justice? Will Lucy transform the Ghoul, or will the Ghoul transform Lucy?”
Fallout Season 2 is an eight-episode season rolling out with one new episode weekly until the season finale on February 4, 2026. Here’s the official blurb:
The new season will pick up in the aftermath of Season One’s epic finale and take audiences along for a journey through the wasteland of the Mojave to the post-apocalyptic city of New Vegas. Season Two will premiere exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.
In front of a packed crowd of over 5,000 attendees at gamescom, Nolan, Robertson-Dworet, and series stars Ella Purnell and Aaron Moten gave insight into Season Two’s stakes and the journey ahead for series favorite characters Lucy, Maximus, and The Ghoul. Together, they surprised the crowd by revealing the series’ teaser-trailer. The footage introduced a new cast member, Justin Theroux, in the role of Robert House, and gave audiences their first glimpse of one of the Fallout universe’s most terrifying post-apocalyptic predators: the Deathclaw.
Based on one of the greatest video game series of all time, Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. Two-hundred years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind — and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe waiting for them.
To date, Fallout Season One has amassed more than 100 million viewers worldwide, ranking among the service’s top three most-watched titles ever. Here’s everything announced at Opening Night Live 2025.
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