{"id":92359,"date":"2025-10-21T15:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T15:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/92359\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T15:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T15:27:11","slug":"fallout-season-2-is-a-buddy-road-trip-for-lucy-and-the-ghoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/92359\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallout Season 2 Is \u2018A Buddy Road Trip\u2019 For Lucy And The Ghoul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who\u2019s ready to take a trip to New Vegas? After an acclaimed first season, video game adaptation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/tv\/reviews\/fallout\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fallout<\/a> is ploughing further into its post-apocalyptic mythology in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/tv\/news\/fallout-season-2-trailer-walton-goggins-and-ella-purnell-head-to-new-vegas-as-amazon-series-returns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Season 2<\/a>. Having established its trio of central characters \u2013 Ella Purnell\u2019s Vault dweller Lucy, Aaron Moten\u2019s mech-suited Maximus, and Walton Goggins\u2019 irradiated Ghoul \u2013 last time around, the second outing will team two of them up for a trip into Sin City 2.0.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, as teased at the end of Season 1, Lucy and The Ghoul are hitting the Fallout version of the yellow brick road \u2013 and it\u2019s not just bottles of Nuka-Cola that await them in New Vegas. \u201cAt times, it\u2019s like [they] are on this buddy road trip,\u201d Purnell tells Empire on set of the new season. \u201cAnd then other times, they\u2019re so much at arms. They\u2019re trying to influence each other and see who\u2019s going to rub off on whom.\u201d Get ready for a literal journey that will change two of our protagonists in a big way. \u201cIs the Ghoul going to become good? Is Lucy going to become bad? Or are they going to be somewhere in the middle?\u201d Purnell teases.<\/p>\n<p>When they get there, they\u2019ll encounter Justin Theroux\u2019s new character Mr. House \u2013 a figure from the Ghoul\u2019s past, back when he was a human known as Cooper Howard. Their war of words looks set to be explosive. \u201cWe have a couple of really incredible scenes that are just these big, heavyweight bouts of intellect,\u201d Theroux promises. \u201cIt was like doing Waiting For Godot in the middle of the whole thing.\u201d Bring on the fallout.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Empire \u2013 Stranger Things 5 cover \u2013 December 2025\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' %3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'\/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'\/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'\/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'\/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3C\/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mO8\/B8AAqsB1DKTUZgAAAAASUVORK5CYII='\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E&quot;)\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/empdec25-st5-stranger-things-cover.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Read Empire\u2019s full Fallout Season 2 set report in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/tv\/news\/stranger-things-5-covers-revealed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Stranger Things 5 issue<\/a> \u2013 on sale Thursday 23 October. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greatmagazines.co.uk\/empire-december-2025?source=referral&amp;medium=empireonline.com&amp;content=december_2025&amp;campaign=empire_singles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Pre-order a copy online here<\/a>. Fallout Season 2 streams on Prime Video from 17 December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s ready to take a trip to New Vegas? 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