Everything We Know About ‘Fallout’ Season 2

Good news, Vault Dwellers! Not only did Fallout premiere two days early on Prime Video, but the second season is likely days away from receiving an official renewal. Life in Fallout’s world is violent and scary on the surface, sure, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have a little fun.

Based on Bethesda’s popular video-game series of the same name, Fallout examines humanity as it navigates the complex and dangerous world of post-apocalyptic U.S.A. The series imagines an alternative history for America in which the development of nuclear weapons during World War II led to complete nuclear war. The wealthier class now lives in Silo-esque vaults where it attempts to repopulate the earth, while a retro-futuristic and snarky population remains on the surface, fighting for resources.

On the Prime Video series, a woman named Lucy (Yellowjackets’ Ella Purnell) escapes her vault roughly two hundred years after the bomb drops. Raiders invaded her bunker from the surface, and they’ve taken her father hostage. During her travels in Fallout-land, Alice meets Max (Emancipation’s Aaron Moten), a disillusioned soldier in a mech suit; a mutant gunslinger called “The Ghoul” (Justified’s Walton Goggins), who has survived more than two centuries thanks to his zombie-like state; and Siggi (Person of Interest’s Michael Emerson), a scientist who is hunted by every bounty hunter in the country. The series is executive-produced by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, the creative team behind HBO’s Westworld.

Good luck out there, Vault Dweller!

When Will Season 2 Premiere?

Prime Video released all eight episodes of Fallout on April 10 at 9:00 p.m. ET/6:00 p.m. PT. The series was originally set to debut on April 12—until early this week, when the streamer announced the new release date. According to Variety, the special early premiere also featured an interactive element in which viewers could select a faction and chat with other fans live.

While we await an official renewal of the video-game adaptation, an unlikely source already dropped some hints that the news is imminent. Earlier this week, the California Film Commission offered massive tax credits to television shows filming in the Golden State. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Fallout is among them, which means that the series is “practically assure[d] a second season.” Though season 1 filmed in New York, it seems as if the Vault Dwellers would move to the West Coast to film a second season. See you then—hopefully in one piece!