Walton Goggins, Aaron Moten, Ella Purnell, and showrunner Geneva Robertson-Dworet reveal their hands for the final episodes of the season.

It’s a typically warm and dusty February day in the desert. The sun is high overhead, blocked out only by numerous signs belonging to rather, uh, curious storefronts. One reads “Golden Globes Porn,” and another cries, “Welcome to strip!” There’s a Wrangler’s Casino and a Ralph’s Laundromat.

Two men who look like they just stepped off the set of Gladiator are proselytizing for someone called Caesar (that’s pronounced Ky-zar, to you, pal). There’s women dressed as all kinds of showgirls — one even has an elaborate purple headdress — only these showgirls have seen better days. It’s clear everything has: The town center is covered in graffiti, and there’s broken-down cars and junk metal everywhere. As if to prove that point, a homeless man walks by holding a sign that reads “beat me up 4 caps.”

Amid it all, in walks Ella Purnell clad in a blue jumpsuit, and her Fallout costar Walton Goggins looking only vaguely human. As he, in character as the Ghoul, walks away, Purnell’s Lucy cries out, “Where are you going?”

To which he yells back, “To get f—ed up.”

It’s all very apropos, given that season 2 of their Prime Video series (which premiered Dec. 16) pulls inspiration from the fan-favorite Fallout: New Vegas video game and is set almost entirely in and around the apocalyptic version of Las Vegas, dubbed New Vegas.

This entire endeavor of adapting the incredibly popular video game franchise was a gamble, but one that’s paid off. According to Amazon, in its first 16 days of availability, Fallout season 1 pulled in 65 million viewers — the second-biggest debut ever for the streamer. It was a hit with critics, audiences, and awards bodies alike (nabbing 17 Emmy nominations including Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for Goggins), and even drew a resurgence of interest in the source material.

So season 2 had massive combat boots to fill.

Geneva Robertson-Dworet (who acts as showrunner alongside Graham Wagner) says this go-for-broke approach was born from a desire to bring new aspects of the games to life, beyond the very vault-centric confines of season 1.

“This is such an expansive mythology that, honestly, we were really devastated in season 1 about the number of things we didn’t get to that we really wanted to. So we were excited to bring more of that to life this season, whether it was Deathclaws or Radscorpions or other elements from the game that we hadn’t gotten to explore yet,” she says, referring to just two of the overgrown, irradiated menaces introduced to the Wasteland this season.

Now, with the penultimate episode fully loaded into the public mainframe, those hints are starting to look as obvious as the neon signs at EW’s Fallout cover shoot, where Goggins has just excitedly cried out, “Let’s go to Vegas!”

He and fellow stars Purnell and Aaron Moten are dressed to the nines, surrounded by a gaggle of Vegas Strip-inspired lights and retro slot machines — all of which, despite their age, are apparently fully operational… much to Purnell’s delight.

The only thing that can pull Purnell’s attention away from testing her luck is Moten’s shiny new denim jumpsuit.

“Aaron, you look so great,” she yells as she once again pulls the lever.

The look is a far cry from the full body suit his character Maximus dons in episode 7, which is the first time fans of the game are treated to NCR power armor in the series. Maximus’ journey this season has seen him ditch the Brotherhood of Steel and team up with Thaddeus (Johnny Pemberton) and the Ghoul to try and find Lucy. In the penultimate episode, Maximus uses the suit — much to the townsfolk’s delight, who herald what they mistakenly believe is the return of the NCR — to distract a pack of those dreaded Deathclaws while the Ghoul goes to find Lucy and, he hopes, his long-lost wife and daughter.

To actually shoot the battle was a grueling process, which Moten says took the better part of six full days of filming to complete. This was largely due to the fact the showrunners opted to not rely solely on visual effects and CGI to create the Deathclaws. Instead, the team at Legacy Effects created a giant lifelike puppet, which had to be manned by three or four people at any given time.

He’s not the only one struggling to react to something. Purnell’s goody two-shoes Lucy has found herself in quite a pickle by the end of episode 7. After finally finding her father, Hank, which she first set out to do in season 1, she now faces the tall task of trying to bring him to justice. In the time it took for her to find him, though, he perfected the black box technology Mr. House first introduced in the season’s cold open. Essentially a mind-control device, it turns even the most violent men into kind, obedient, perfect worker bees, and even Lucy must admit it has its advantages in the Wasteland.

Either as a test or not believing her capable, Hank tells Lucy how to stop him — she must find the mainframe that powers all of these black box-controlled workers and destroy it. At episode’s end, she cuffs her father to an oven and finds the mainframe, where she’s horrified to discover the system is not a what but a who — the disembodied, but still alive, head of Congresswoman Diane Welch (Martha Kelly) to be exact — presenting yet another moral quandary for Fallout‘s favorite morally upstanding denizen: Does she kill Welch to stop her father?

“I think episodes 6 and 7 are very confusing episodes for Lucy, trying to marry her understanding of morality, what makes a good and bad person, everything she’s learned about the Ghoul, everything she’s learned about herself,” Purnell says.

This season, though she still believes she’s a good person, Lucy is “inevitably changed in a way she doesn’t even realize,” the star says. Take, for instance, the time she was on drugs, and killed the group of ghouls known as the Kings (who were Elvis impersonators in a past life, naturally), or when she ditched the impaled Ghoul on a pole. Then there’s all the additional atrocities she’s been exposed to this season, like the barbaric violence of the Legion.

“The temptation of what her father is explaining to her, what he’s doing and also what he’s offering her — he’s offering her this very sort of seductive idea of a new and reformed civilization that touches on what she was raised to believe in, which is reformation, but in a really, really messed up way,” Purnell explains. “But he knows her. So he’s really calculating the way to present this idea to her in a way that’s going to be very, very seductive.“

Further complicating matters, of course, are Lucy’s ongoing daddy issues.

Or, as Purnell puts it, “You don’t stop loving someone because you realize they’re a monster. The opposite of love isn’t hate, it’s indifference — and she certainly doesn’t feel indifferent. She could love and hate him in the same breath. So I think by the time she sees the head at the end of 7, that, to me, is like her breaking point.“

So, what’s a former vaultie to do heading into the finale?

“She might believe she wants to bring her father to justice, and that’s really what she’s going to do. But what we realize when we get to the finale and episodes 6, 7, 8 — by the time she actually is reunited with her dad, her idea of justice is no longer the same.” Okey dokey, then.

It’s not just for Lucy that the times, they are a-changin’. Cooper Howard, via flashback, and his future iteration, the Ghoul, concurrently have perhaps the biggest reveals of the season. In the past, Cooper — who seems to have finally reconciled with his wife, Barb (Frances Turner) — devises a plan to stop the ongoing wars over power with Congresswoman Welch to get the cold fusion diode into the hands of the President of the United States (played by series newcomer Clancy Brown).

Purnell, meanwhile, teases a finale that is “conflicted, explosive and character-defining” for little ol’ Lucy MacLean.

“You get to see Lucy be a real human with real human problems, and I think at times, because of her strength and her optimism, it doesn’t always feel that way with her,” she says. “But in this moment, and that maybe says a lot about what her choices and decisions are, she’s flawed and she’s actually just getting more and more human.”

If the showrunners are taking feedback though, Purnell has some hopes for Lucy as she continues her growth as a human being in the Wasteland.

“I would never want her to lose her comedy. It’s my favorite thing about her. And no matter how experienced she becomes, I hope she doesn’t lose a little bit of her naivety,” she says, adding, “I mean, I’d like to see her and Max maybe try to work it out. I miss Maximus.”

Does she ship them? “Oh, I ship them hard.“

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Well, well, we’re officially back in the Wasteland. Here’s a look ahead at the rest of Season Two.

About Fallout: Based on one of the greatest video games of all time, Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the incredibly complex, gleefully weird and highly violent universe waiting for them above.

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Ella Purnell made an appearance on ‘Late Night with Seth Meyers’ to promote the second season of Fallout on tuesday, December 16.

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Ella graces the cover of Cosmopolitan UK with a new photoshoot while promoting Fallout Season 2 release, which premieres tomorrow (16/12) instead of 17/12 as a early Christmas gift!

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“Happy Fallout Day!” Ella Purnell exclaims as she tucks into the piece of carrot cake she has been eyeing up throughout her Cosmopolitan shoot. A shoot which coincidentally took place on the day sacred to fans of the gaming series Fallout. The video game turned Prime Video TV series stars Purnell as the show’s lead Lucy MacLean, a young naive woman who ventures out of the safety of her post-apocalyptic vault to find her father in the dangerous wasteland above. And today, 23rd October (2077) is the date the aforementioned apocalypse takes place.

Luckily, things feel decidedly less dramatic today. 29-year-old Purnell is sitting curled up on a blue velvet sofa, her dark smoky eye make-up an odd juxtaposition to the laidback striped jumper and brown Adidas trackpants she arrived wearing earlier today, now complete with a mug of tea in her hands. She’s in between night shoots for Sweetpea season two, the Sky drama series she stars in and executive produces, but right now she’s focused on telling me about the fox that lives in her garden. “She doesn’t like vegetables. But she loves a Garibaldi and Jammie Dodgers, but only the strawberry flavoured Jammie Dodgers, not the raspberry ones.” Purnell is also currently debating what to watch on TV with her flatmate this evening, “I had to have a [reality TV] intervention in 2019. I would be up for nine hours catching up on Love Island, and it ruined my life.”

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Ella Purnell and the main cast of “Fallout” walked the red carpet of prime video’s show upcoming season on Monday, December 8, in Los Angeles, California.

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Ella Purnell has made an appearance at this year’s CCXP25 alongside her co-stars Walton Goggins and Aaron Moten to discuss the upcoming season of “Fallout” in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

With a premiere scheduled for December 17th, the new season promises to expand the universe already presented in the first year, deepening conflicts, expanding scenarios, and bringing elements even more connected to the classic mythology of the Fallout games. The panel highlighted that a large part of the narrative will be guided by the peculiar “road trip” of Lucy and The Ghoul. The relationship between the two, initially tense and marked by distrust, should evolve slowly and organically, moving towards a kind of friendship built through sheer force, in the dust and chaos of the Wasteland.

One of the biggest highlights revealed at the panel is that the plot will now focus on the city of New Vegas, bringing one of the franchise’s most iconic settings to the center of the story. One of them is Robert Edwin House, played by Justin Theroux, the city’s leader. For those who don’t remember… He briefly appeared at the end of the first season of the series.

Fans can expect new monsters, directly inspired by classic creatures from the games, and more violent rival factions, expanding the political and social map of the post-apocalypse.

New environments, mixing neon, radiation, and chaos, as well as direct references to established elements of the franchise, now adapted to the series’ narrative.

The second season of Fallout promises to elevate everything that worked in the premiere: acidic humor, stylized violence, impeccable setting, and human relationships forged under pressure. 

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Ella Purnell returned home to London for the Season Two screening of Fallout at Picturehouse Central on tuesday night, December 2, in London, England. She also did tons of press and also attended the photocall for the upcoming season.

The series has garnered plenty of attention, with many eager to find out what is to come. The first season garnered an approval rating of over 90% on Rotten Tomatoes. Back in May, it was confirmed that the show would get picked up for a third season.

The premiere of the next season of Fallout comes out on Prime Video on December 17. New episodes will be released on the streaming platform weekly after that, until February 4, 2026.

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Prime Video hosted the Australian Special Screening of Season Two of Fallout, at Hoyts Entertainment Quarter Sydney on Monday, November 24.

Kicking off the global tour in Sydney, the screening was attended by series cast members Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten and Walton Goggins and producer Noreen O’Toole.

Before the screening, the cast participated in a Q&A hosted by David Campbell and shared what audiences can expect in the second season due on December 17.

Ella and cast members also attended the photocall the next day and throughout their stay, they did several interviews and lot of press promoting the upcoming season.

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As announced two days ago, Fallout official trailer is officially out:

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