Prime Video has actually dropped a prolonged teaser for the much-anticipated 2nd season of Falloutcommonly thought about to be amongst the very best television adjustments of a video gaming franchise. In our 2024 year-end roundup, Ars senior editor Samuel Axon composed that the very first season offered us “a specific cocktail of tongue-in-cheek humor, sci-fi campiness, strong themes, great characters, and visceral violence [that] came together into a fantastic show.” The 2nd season appears like it will bring us more of the exact same, together with a significant brand-new character drawn from the Fallout: New Vegas video game. We even got a peek of a Deathclaw.

(Minor spoilers for S1 listed below.)

For the unaware, Fallout is set 2 centuries after nuclear warfare in between the United States and China damaged civilization in 2077– an alternate history variation of 2077, in which post-World War II nuclear innovation introduced a retrofuturistic society. Some fortunate survivors took sanctuary in numerous underground vaults; others were delegated scavenge a weak presence on the extremely radioactive surface area.

In S1, we satisfied Lucy MacLean (Ella Purnell), a girl whose vault is robbed by surface area residents. The raiders eliminate lots of vault locals and abduct her dad, Hank (Kyle MacLachlan), so the protected Lucy sets out on a mission to discover him. Life on the surface area is quite harsh, however Lucy discovers quickly. Along the method, she discovers an ally (and enjoy interest) in Maximus (Aaron Moten), a squire masquerading as a knight of the Brotherhood of Steel. And she contravenes of a gunslinger and fugitive hunter called the Ghoul (Walton Goggins), a previous Hollywood star called Cooper Howard who endured the initial nuclear blast, however radiation direct exposure turned him into, well, an evil spirit.