Fallout Season Two Plays the Long Game
The themes explored in the first season of Fallout return in the second, which maintains the same distinctive retro-futuristic style but features a more complex and expanding storyline. This season will be released one episode per week, a change Prime Video also made with The Boys after its successful first season – a promising sign for continued discussion around Fallout. This means we’ll have almost two months to follow the show’s take on New Vegas, grapple with our complicated feelings about the Ghoul, and wonder if Lucy will return to her vault or if Maximus will escape his power armor. While I’ve seen the first six of the eight episodes and have a sense of the season’s main goals, it’s still unclear how they fit into the bigger picture. We’ll have to wait until the finale on February 4th to get all the answers, but here are three key questions that the new season raises.
