Fans got an unexpected gift from the wasteland. Fallout Season 2 premiered earlier than expected, arriving on Prime Video on December 16, 2025, one day ahead of its originally announced date. In a unique marketing move, the early release was announced by transforming the massive Sphere in Las Vegas into a post-apocalyptic snow globe, featuring the show’s main characters and a Deathclaw. The season is now streaming, with new episodes arriving weekly.
This new chapter picks up directly after the explosive events of Season One. The story follows the journey through the Mojave wasteland to the legendary, neon-lit ruins of New Vegas. The shift to a weekly release format means audiences will experience the story unfold one episode at a time, building anticipation each week.
When to Watch: Global Release Time for the Premiere
The first episode of Fallout Season 2 became available for streaming on Tuesday, December 16, 2025, at 6:00 PM Pacific Time (PT). This represented both a date and a time change from the initial plan.
For viewers around the world, this meant the premiere arrived at these local times:
- 9:00 PM Eastern Time (ET) on Tuesday, December 16.
- 2:00 AM Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) on Wednesday, December 17.
- 3:00 AM Central European Summer Time (CEST) on Wednesday, December 17.
- 1:00 PM Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT) on Wednesday, December 17.
The remaining seven episodes of the season will follow a weekly release schedule every Wednesday, culminating in the season finale on February 4, 2026.
What to Expect in the New Season: Story and New Faces
The core mission driving the new season is the pursuit of Hank MacLean (Kyle MacLachlan), who fled to New Vegas at the end of the first season. His daughter, Lucy MacLean (Ella Purnell), is determined to find him and bring him to justice. She is not alone on this path. The mutated gunslinger The Ghoul/Cooper Howard (Walton Goggins) is also tracking Hank, hoping he holds the key to finding the Ghoul’s long-lost wife and daughter.
Their destination, New Vegas, is a major location pulled directly from the beloved video game Fallout: New Vegas. The story will introduce viewers to iconic factions from the game, including the enigmatic Caesar’s Legion and the charismatic Kings. Meanwhile, Maximus (Aaron Moten) grapples with internal conflict within the Brotherhood of Steel, where the discovery of cold fusion technology is creating tension.
The cast welcomes several significant new actors. Justin Theroux has joined the series in the major role of Robert Edwin House, the enigmatic ruler of the New Vegas Strip. In a notable recast, Theroux takes over the role from Rafi Silver, who portrayed a younger version of the character in Season One. Macaulay Culkin also appears in a recurring role described as a “crazy genius”-type character.
The announcement was revealed on the Exosphere of Sphere in Las Vegas, bringing an element of the season’s journey to New Vegas to life by turning Sphere into a post-apocalyptic snow globe.
Full Episode Release Schedule
Unlike the first season, which released all episodes at once, Season 2 is following a weekly format. The complete schedule for the eight-episode season is as follows:
- Episode 1: Released on Tuesday, December 16, 2025
- Episode 2: Available on Wednesday, December 25, 2025
- Episode 3: Available on Wednesday, January 1, 2026
- Episode 4: Available on Wednesday, January 8, 2026
- Episode 5: Available on Wednesday, January 15, 2026
- Episode 6: Available on Wednesday, January 22, 2026
- Episode 7: Available on Wednesday, January 29, 2026
- Episode 8 (Season Finale): Available on Wednesday, February 4, 2026
All episodes are released on Prime Video, which is available in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.
Background and Early Reception
The Fallout television series is based on the iconic video game franchise created by Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky. It is produced by Kilter Films, the company led by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, with Nolan having directed the first three episodes of the series. The showrunners are Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner.
The first season was a major success for Prime Video, attracting over 100 million viewers worldwide and ranking among the service’s top three most-watched titles ever. It also received significant critical recognition, earning 17 Emmy Award nominations. Given its strong performance, Amazon renewed the series for a third season in May 2025, even before the second season premiered.
Initial critical reviews for Season 2 have been strong. On the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, 100% of 37 critic reviews were positive at the time of the season’s launch. Another review site, Metacritic, assigned a weighted score of 76 out of 100, indicating “generally favorable reviews”.
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