Prime Video is back with Season 2 of 'Fallout'. However, before we get into what the new season has in store, let's take a quick look at where Season 1 left off.
Fallout Season 2 has arrived hours earlier for the fans across the world. The much-loved series was released on Amazon Prime Video, and it is already the highlight of the week. However, it has been over a year since the Season 1 finale, so before we dive deeper into the Season 2 drama, let's take a look at what happened in Season 1 and where it left off.
The finale for Fallout Season 1 was released in April 2024. Yes! Over a year ago, and now the makers are bringing back the heat with an even more intense Season 2. However, we all need a little reminder of what really happened in the Fallout Season 1 finale. Well, as fans are well aware, the show is an adaptation of the much-loved game, Fallout. It is full of violence, monsters, and desperation, because here survival is everything.
Fallout Season 1, which follows some of the extremely liked characters from the video game in the post-apocalyptic world. The makers ensured that, while they take creative freedom to add their own essence to it, the core feel of the video game remains intact, embracing its gory, dark, comedic tone. While it's safe to say that Fallout Season 1's eight episodes did not directly adapt any of the game's story lines, a teaser for Season 2 references a familiar location for Fallout fans.
After introducing the familiar retro-futuristic 2077, the show explored a bizarre alternate history in which technology from the 1950s and 1960s has far outlived modern advancements. While another Cold War threatens humanity, the population is forced to live in massive fallout bunkers called Vaults. When Vault Dweller 'Lucy' (Ella Purnell) leaves her protected community for the first time in the premiere, we learn that most of the population was left to rough it out on the surface.
Fallout Season 1 kick-started the series by introducing the fans to Vault 33 Overseer, 'Hank MacLean', essayed by Kyle MacLachlan, and his daughter, 'Lucy'. While life in the vault is simple and heavily focused on breeding to replenish the population, it is actually a twisted reproduction control center disguised as a community. However, when raiders from the surface overrun the neighboring Vault 32 and kill everyone inside, 'Lucy's' life is changed forever.
The raiders continue their assault on Vault 33, and the gang's leader, 'Moldaver' (Sarita Choudhury), kidnaps 'Hank'. In order to rescue her father, the doe-eyed 'Lucy' leaves the colony and braves the outside world. Eight episodes and several twists later, we learn that 'Moldaver' might not be as terrible a person as we initially thought, and in fact, the true villain in the series is 'Hank'. As the gang leader reveals, many of the Wasteland's power players, including 'Lucy's' father, are cryogenically frozen Vault-Tec employees from 2077. Even worse, it was Vault-Tec that allegedly dropped the first nuclear bomb more than two hundred years earlier.
Two other characters in Fallout Season 1 uncover some terrible news, with the first being 'Cooper Howard' (Walton Goggins), a former cowboy actor, who discovers that his wife was the Vault-Tec board member who suggested starting a nuclear war. While 'Cooper' manages to survive the fallout, he now lives as a ghoulish bounty hunter, tracking down anyone who may know what happened to his family. Well, 'Cooper's' search sends him on the same journey as 'Lucy', where they race to find the 'MacGuffin' that 'Moldaver' requires.
For those who don't know, 'MacGuffin' is the device that is implanted in the scientist, Dr. Siggi Wilzig's' skull. It is a cold-fusion reactor that would restore power to 'Moldaver's' New California Republic. The city, formerly known as 'Shady Sands', was left decimated when 'Hank' detonated a nuclear bomb to keep control of the region.
As 'Lucy' and 'Cooper' converge on the Observatory, the former's younger brother, 'Norm' (Moisés Arias), uncovers a similar mystery in Vault 31. While many of Vault 33's inhabitants carry on with their duties following the attack, 'Norm' remains skeptical. He soon finds out that his colony of the three Vaults was composed of a managerial class meant to rule over Earth's population following nuclear war. He also discovers his father's identity and accidentally traps himself in Vault 31, where the rest of the cryogenically frozen Vault-Tec employees remain in a deep slumber.
'Maximus' (Aaron Moten), a member of the cultlike community called the 'Brotherhood of Steel', leads his mech-suit-wearing army on an assault against 'Moldaver's' New California Republic. In the finale, he successfully takes control of the Observatory and the cold-fusion reactor. While on her last breath, 'Moldaver' reveals that 'Lucy's' mother was turned into a 'Ghoul' when her father decimated 'Shady Sands'.
'Lucy' ends her mother's life and partners with 'Cooper' to track down her father, who escapes during the melee with one of the Brotherhood's mech suits. In the closing minutes of the finale, 'Hank' arrives at a recognisable skyline for Fallout fans: New Vegas. Season 2 will pick up on the same plotline, featuring further high-stakes twists as they try to survive the new world.
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