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Even before the radioactive dust has settled on the first season of Amazon Prime's Fallout, the question is being asked: when is season two of Fallout out? Well, you can put your hazmat suit back on the hanger and stow your Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System safely in the cupboard for a while yet.
There are, however, already some clicks on the Geiger counter for anyone who's willing to go looking for them. There were some pretty heavy hints within the end of the first season that there are plans afoot to open out the world more – specifically, New Vegas seems like one destination we'll be stopping off at – and there are a few concrete pointers that there will be a second season even if nothing's been confirmed yet.
What happened in Fallout season one?
OK, strap in for a very, very condensed look back. We saw Los Angeles hit by nukes and humanity scarpering underground as everything went to pot. A couple of centuries later, things are ticking along as well as they can after a nuclear holocaust. When Lucy MacLean’s dad Hank is forced out of their vault – and many of the vault’s inhabitants murdered by Lee Moldaver’s raiders – she goes out onto the surface to look for him. She bumps into Wilzig, a scientist who carks it early doors and who convinces Lucy to take his head to Moldaver, the Flame Mother, who could return her father to her.
Titus, a knight in the Brotherhood of Steel, also carks it early doors and his squire Maximus takes his identity. Eventually he lets on to his own squire Thaddeus, who stomps off in disgust. Lucy and Maximus team up to get the head back and briefly end up in the woo-woo Vault 4, before Maximus meets back up with the Brotherhood and is forgiven for all the identity theft as they gear up to take on Moldaver’s forces.
Finally, Lucy gets the head to Moldaver and Maximus frees Hank, who grabs some power armour and sets off for New Vegas to find his family. Maximus gets the credit for killing Moldaver, and Los Angeles is lit up again at last.
And in flashbacks to the times before everything went up in flames, we found out that the Vault-Tec corporation built all those underground bunkers now storing humanity’s remnants as part of a plot to start a nuclear war – all the better to reset society and mould it to its own vision.
Will there be a second season of Fallout?
Yes! But that was a foregone conclusion given the very positive reviews for the first season. Plus, Variety report that Amazon received $25 million in tax credits to shoot in California rather than over in New York where the first season was filmed. There are also rumours some filming will start in Toronto in September, but that's yet to be confirmed.
On 19 April the news was confirmed, with director-producer Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy saying: “Praise be to our insanely brilliant showrunners, Geneva and Graham, to our kick-ass cast, to Todd and James and all the legends at Bethesda, and to Jen, Vernon and the amazing team at Amazon for their incredible support of this show. We can’t wait to blow up the world all over again”.
There's definitely appetite from the Fallout crew too. Executive producer Graham Wagner told Collider that they had started work on the next season even while they were putting together the season which has just gone out.
"[When] we wrapped season one, we started working on season two in the hopes of there being interest in that from Amazon, and in the hopes of shrinking that gap [between seasons one and two] – because leaving people on a cliffhanger for two years is a bizarre impulse.
Is there a trailer for Fallout s2?
No, you silly goose. We'll have it here if and when there is one though.
When will Fallout s2 be out?
Based on some back-of-an-iodine-pill-packet maths, and assuming that that entirely unconfirmed story about filming starting in September is true, you shouldn't expect it to arrive before the back end of 2025.
