Although Prime Video and Kilter Films’ series Fallout, based on the hit video game of the same name, is set in an alternative timeline, 200 years after a nuclear apocalypse, it’s a timely story of haves and have-nots trying to coexist in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. The hit show’s second season will arrive on December 17, 2025, and will pick up in the aftermath of the first season’s epic finale, taking fans on a journey through the wasteland of the Mojave Desert to the post-apocalyptic city of New Vegas.
In its first four days, the debut of the high-octane-fueled series became a global hit, ranking among Prime Video’s top three most-watched titles ever and the service’s most-watched season globally since Rings of Power. The debut season of Fallout premiered exclusively on Prime Video on Wednesday, April 10, 2024, in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. As of May 2025, Fallout season 1 had accumulated more than 100 million viewers worldwide, ranking among the service’s top three most-watched titles ever.
Based on the 2010 hit Fallout spin-off game Fallout: New Vegas, developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Bethesda Softworks, the Fallout television series is set 200 years after a nuclear apocalypse that has left the Earth’s surface practically uninhabitable. It follows Lucy MacLean (Ella Purnell), a young denizen of a luxury fallout shelter, Vault 33, who is forced to return to the Mojave Wasteland, an irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind, in order to save her kidnapped father, Overseer Hank (Kyle MacLachlan). When Lucy arrives on the surface, she’s shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe awaiting them.
While looking for her kidnapped father, Lucy meets the Ghoul (Walton Goggins), a morally ambiguous bounty hunter, and Maximu (Aaron Moten), a wannabe member of The Brotherhood of Steel, who grew up above ground but, like Lucy, was also raised in a cloistered “family” of sorts. By the end of Season 1, the trio had joined forces and discovered the whereabouts of Lucy’s kidnapped father and the ugly truth behind his kidnapping. However, before they can confront him, Hank steals Maximus’s Power Armor and heads towards New Vegas, a location that fans of the video game franchise will recognize from the 2010 video game.
On August 18, 2025, Prime Video and Kilter Films released some Season 2 first-look images, which indicate that fans will get to see a lot more of New Vegas than they had previously seen in the Fallout video game spin-off on which this season is based. Check them out below:
In addition, although it has yet to be officially confirmed, the Season 2 first-look images indicate that the pre-post-apocalyptic version of the Ghoul, known as Copper Howard, will appear this season. Fans have also noted that The Lucky 38 Resort and Casino can be seen in one of the images, which indicates that Season 2 will include a major character from the video game, New Vegas leader Robert House (Justin Theroux), who was last seen plotting the end of the world with his wife (Mr. House was played by Rafi Silver in Season 1).
Fallout has already been renewed for a third season. It’s produced by Kilter Films and Amazon MGM Studios in association with Bethesda Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks, with executive producers Todd Howard for Bethesda Game Studios, James Altman for Bethesda Softworks, Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy, and Athena Wickham. Additionally, Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner serve as executive producers, creators, and showrunners.
Read the press release below:
Today at gamescom, the world’s largest gaming event, Prime Video debuted the teaser trailer for the second season of its critically acclaimed global hit series, Fallout. During the gamescom Opening Night Live global livestream, it was also revealed that the highly anticipated new season will premiere on December 17, 2025, with the eight-episode season rolling out with one new episode weekly until the season finale on February 4, 2026. Fallout is produced by Kilter Films, with executive producers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner serve as executive producers, creators, and showrunners. To date, Fallout Season One has amassed more than 100 million viewers worldwide, ranking among the service’s top three most-watched titles ever.
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.
The series stars Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets, Sweetpea), Aaron Moten (Emancipation, Father Stu), Walton Goggins (The White Lotus, The Righteous Gemstones), Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks), Moisés Arias (The King of Staten Island), and Frances Turner (The Boys).
Watch the Season 2 trailer below:
Fallout Season 2 will premiere on December 17, 2025, exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. Season 1 is available to stream on Prime Video now.
