Fallout was one of the most successful new shows of 2024, a funny, scary, post-apocalyptic epic based on the long-running Fallout video game series from Bethesda. The second season is filming right now. That probably means we won't see it until 2026, which is likely later than a lot of fans want, but according to star Walton Goggins (the Ghoul), it'll be worth the wait.
“We’re in the middle of filming it right now, we’ve been at it since November, and I can tell you that I thought Season 1 was extraordinary, personally, I was very pleased with it,” Goggins told Deadline. “This blows it out of the water, what these writers have done and the artisans that have come together to tell this story. It’s really gonna be something. I can’t wait for people to see it. We’re working really hard to make that happen.”
Those are some big promises. But the first season of Fallout did so much right I'm willing to go along with it.
Walton Goggins teases #Fallout Season 2 : “I thought Season 1 was extraordinary… This blows it out of the water” pic.twitter.com/B1BmmGC8t3
— Deadline (@DEADLINE) February 11, 2025
When last we left the wasteland, the Ghoul and Lucy (Ella Purnell) were headed to New Vegas, an iconic location from the games. The Ghoul was probably the breakout character from the first season of Fallout: when we meet him, he seems like a hardened survivor without much of a moral compass, and he is that. But as the season goes on, we find out he was a fading movie star before the world ended, and that he's still working out difficult feelings left over from all those years ago. And also he looks like a walking corpse, which is fun.
All of that sounds pretty dour, but the Fallout series has always mixed grim sci-fi with arch humor, a tradition the TV show proudly carries on. Goggins has sold the ghoulish side of the Ghoul extremely well, but he's delivered on the pitch-black punchlines. It's the character he was born to play; I'm only sorry he has to sit in the makeup chair for what I'm guessing is an eternity and a half to get ready.
If you simply can't wait until 2026 to watch Goggins, the guy is everywhere right now, and deservedly so. He plays the uncompromising bureaucrat Cecil Stedman over on Invincible, reminding us of his dramatic chops. Next month, he'll return as hopeless grifter Baby Billy Freeman in The Righteous Gemstones on HBO. And this upcoming Sunday, he'll take part in the third season of The White Lotus, also on HBO. He may be in more shows that I actively watch than any other actor, and for that, I salute him.
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