Fallout TV Show Teases Iconic Location for Season 2

Prime Video’s live-action Fallout adaptation has finally arrived, and although only eight episodes have been released, it’s clear that there’s much more to come. The season one finale sets up not only a second season but also a familiar location that’s sure to excite fans of the video game franchise.

The series follows Lucy, a Vault dweller who is forced to travel to the surface to find her missing father and Overseer Hank MacLean. While fighting for her life in the wasteland, she comes face to face with Cooper Howard, a ruthless bounty hunter, and Maximus, a squire of the Brotherhood of Steel. The finale sets up a plethora of new storylines and ends on a dramatic shot of where season 2 will take place.

Viva New Vegas!

The Fallout TV show is heading to New Vegas in season 2

Yep, you guessed it. Should Prime Video decide to greenlight Fallout for season two, it certainly appears as if we’ll be leaving what’s left of New California for New Vegas, the central location of the third spinoff and seventh overall game in the Fallout franchise.

At the end of season one, we learn that Lucy’s father Hank isn’t the innocent captive we thought he was. He dons a suit of Power Armor and knocks out Maximus, but is defeated by the Ghoul. After Lucy leaves with the Ghoul, Maximus is declared a knight by the Brotherhood of Steel, and Hank, still suited up, looks out over the horizon and walks toward… New Vegas.

Released in 2010, Fallout: New Vegas centers on a location made up of parts of Arizona, California, and Nevada, that was built in the ruins of good ol’ Las Vegas. In the game, a character known as the Courier is tasked with transporting a package across the Mojave Desert only to be robbed, shot, and buried alive in a cemetery.

After being rescued by the inhabitants of a small frontier town, the Courier must find their attempted killer and recover the package all while being caught in the middle of a conflict over who will ultimately control New Vegas and the Mojave Wasteland. Most of the game takes place in the latter location, which includes real-life locations like the Nellis Air Force Base, Black Mountain, and the HELIOS One solar energy plant.

Nellis Air Force Base, one of the real-life locations featured in Fallout: New Vegas

Now that the cold fusion device, aka the device that supposedly holds enough energy needed to restart civilization, has been located, it’s possible that season 2 will see civilization (attempt to) restart… maybe in New Vegas? But the question is, which faction will come out on top? Fallout: New Vegas has four different endings, with the Hoover Dam falling under control of either the New California Republic, The Legion, Mr. House, and the Courier themselves. As the TV series is apparently canon to the video game series, the outcome of season 2 will determine which ending is truly canon to the game after all.

“It’s possible that season 2 will see civilization (attempt to) restart… maybe in New Vegas? But the question is, which faction will come out on top?”

The fate of New Vegas hangs in the balance

The Fallout TV show has already proven itself to be a wild and explosive ride, and with the introduction of New Vegas, things are about to get even more interesting. Will the TV series follow the same storyline as the game, or will it take a different path? One thing’s for sure - we can’t wait to find out.