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Fallout

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“Just like the Ghoul reaching for another piece of ass-meat, Fallout is back for more. The Prime Video adaptation of the beloved postapocalyptic video game premieres its second season tonight at 9 p.m. ET, and this time around Fallout is leaving behind California for New Vegas, a fan-favorite location with a new lineup of monsters and villains but the same trio of protagonists.

Walton Goggins’s the Ghoul, né Hollywood star Cooper Howard, who lent his likeness to his wife Barb’s (Frances Turner) company Vault-Tec, was horrified to learn she helped plan the nuclear war that plunged the U.S. into its enduring fucked-up state. Cheery and resolute Vault 33 dweller Lucy (Ella Purnell) left her underground home to find her abducted father, Hank (Kyle MacLachlan), and in doing so realized the difficulty of living by the golden rule in a world that’s defined by ruthlessness and want. And Maximus (Aaron Moten), a squire of the technology-fetishizing group the Brotherhood of Steel, was tasked with finding and securing valuable cold-fusion technology that could provide infinite energy.

By the end of the first season, Lucy learned that her father, Hank, was a nefarious Vault-Tec employee who destroyed a peaceful surface community, the Ghoul was committed to finding his wife and daughter in their secret vault, and Maximus was given the cold-fusion technology that could provide infinite energy.” — Roxana Hadadi, “Fallout Season Two Plays the Long Game”

  1. Episode 8 The Beginning
    Fallout Season-Finale Recap: War Never Changes We did not think the series would have a canonical explanation for the Great War.
  2. Episode 7 The Radio
    Fallout Recap: Selling the End of the World The past and present timelines are colliding together.
  3. Episode 6 The Trap
    Fallout Recap: Under New Management It’s fair to say that life in the vault is not as it was advertised.
  4. Episode 5 The Past
    Fallout Recap: Vote 31 It’s really starting to look like we’ve got a conspiracy on our hands.
  5. Episode 4 The Ghouls
    Fallout Recap: The Golden Rule Lucy and The Ghoul finally have an honest conversation.
  6. Episode 3 The Head
    Fallout Recap: Thumbs-up It’s remarkable what 200 years of real depravity will do to a ghoul.
  7. Episode 2 The Target
    Fallout Recap: Ain’t That a Kick in the Head Spoiler alert: the wasteland isn’t as welcoming as Lucy had initially hoped it would be.
  8. Episode 1 The End
    Fallout Series-Premiere Recap: Orange Colored Sky Right off the bat, it’s clear that Ella Purnell’s Lucy is a classic charisma build.
  1. Episode 8 The Strip
    Fallout Season-Finale Recap: Welcome to the Wasteland The return of two iconic factions from the games moves the series beyond mere survival and into an all-out war for the future of the wasteland.
  2. Episode 7 The Handoff
    Fallout Recap: O Canada In the wasteland, you never truly know if someone is a murderer, an executive, or secretly Canadian.
  3. Episode 6 Uranium Fever
    Fallout Recap: The Other Player Lucy witnesses the horrifying results of Hank’s newly refined mind-control chip, while The Ghoul faces his own humanity in a grimy Freeside lair.
  4. Episode 5 The Wrangler
    Fallout Recap: The House Always Wins The wasteland’s true big bad is finally emerging from the shadows.
  5. Episode 4 Episode 4
    Fallout Recap: We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Strip Lucy’s peppy optimism has officially given way to a Buffout-fueled thirst for violence.
  6. Episode 3 Episode 3
    Fallout Recap: The War of the Two Caesars Lucy, Max, and the Ghoul find themselves stuck in the middle of the Legion and Brotherhood’s impending civil wars.
  7. Episode 2 Episode 2
    Fallout Recap: A Real F*ckin’ Ice Box Lucy finds herself in the midst of one of the most dangerous factions in the entire series.
  8. Episode 1 The Innovator
    Fallout Season-Premiere Recap: The Man Who Knew The trail to Hank leads the Ghoul and Lucy toward New Vegas, one of the last remnants of prewar America, thanks to a multihyphenate tech genius.

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    Ella Purnell Is Hollywood’s New Favorite Action HeroYellowjackets fans craved more of her. Tim Burton couldn’t resist her peculiar eyes. Now, the actress has everyone falling for her in Fallout.
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