Fallout (Amazon Prime Video) 2025 - season 2



In 2025, season two of the Fallout streaming series premiered on Amazon Prime. I was excited for it as I loved season one and wished to see a resolution to the cliffhanger that season one ended on.

 After some startling revelations about her past and her father Hank McLean, naive idealistic Lucy now travels with Cooper Howard aka The Ghoul to the ruins of Las Vegas in pursuit of Hank. While Lucy is intent on bringing her father to face justice back home, Cooper seems to be harbouring other plans. 

As they journey, Lucy has run ins with various warring factions like the Roman inspired Legion, all while her faith in the goodness of others continues to be tested. 

 Meanwhile Maximus, now the reluctant hero of the militant cult The Brotherhood of Steel, witnesses a falling out among the Brotherhood’s leaders over the cold fusion diode he retrieved in the last season. 

This diode is able to grant unlimited energy in the fuel scarce wasteland and various parties wish to get their hands on it, including the largest sect of the Brotherhood known as The Commonwealth. 

During a scouting mission with a Commonwealth representative, Maximus reluctantly kills the rep, sparking off a mini civil war. In the chaos of infighting between the factions, Maximus and a new friend steal the cold fusion diode and make their way toward Las Vegas hoping to find Lucy again. 

But wait there’s more! Aside from our three main characters, we have trouble on the home front back in the vaults that Lucy hailed from. 

Her brother Norm had uncovered a dark secret behind the vault experiment; pre-war Vaultec employees kept in stasis to be thawed out gradually and integrated among the other vaults as leadership, with those born within the vaults seen as no better than breeding stock. Norm hatches a plan to sabotage this nefarious scheme but all is not as it seems. 

 But wait there’s more! We have Hank having found his way back to Vaultec HQ and conducting mysterious experiments on abducted wastelanders, we have flashbacks to Cooper Howard’s past and how he finds himself tangled in a conspiracy to end the world, we have flashbacks to Hank’s past, we have…….lots of ongoing plot threads and most only come together in the season finale. 

There is a lot going on and the slow burn approach the series takes may not be for everyone. For me, I liked it. I always enjoy a good mystery and the payoff definitely delivered. 

As per season 1, the production values are top notch here, recreating the settings, atmosphere, weapons and technology seen in the games. Even the music used is true to the games.

My key issue is Lucy herself. While her growth in season 1 was central to the plot, she felt like she was merely playing a supporting role in season 2 as a audience surrogate to experience Cooper’s, Maximus’ and Hank’s stories as they unfold. 

She has less agency in what happens to her and at times we sort of see her regressing to how she was prior to her development from season 1. Small issue but still an issue. 

Nonetheless, Fallout season 2 continues the strong storytelling, world building and character development from season 1. The season finale leaves me excited for season 3 and with the convergence of some plot threads I hope for a more streamlined and focused plot to complement the terrific cast and production values.

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