Fallout season 2 trailer reveals who's playing Mr. House, a Deathclaw, and an official release date for the hit Prime Video show's return
The end of the world isn't here yet, folks
· TechRadarNews By Tom Power published 19 August 2025
Fallout season 2 premieres on Prime Video in December (Image credit: Lorenzo Sisti/Prime Video)
- Amazon has revealed the official release date for Fallout season 2
- Previously, we only knew it would premiere on Prime Video in December
- This season's first trailer was unveiled alongside the launch date at gamescom 2025
Amazon has announced that Fallout season 2 will make its Prime Video debut on December 17, 2025.
Before today (August 19), we only knew that Fallout season 2 would be released on Prime Video in December. Now, we know exactly when it'll launch on one of the world's best streaming services, with its actual release date being revealed during Opening Night Live at gamescom 2025.
Fallout – Season Two Teaser Trailer | Prime Video - YouTube
That's not all that was revealed. Indeed, Amazon also unveiled this season's first trailer, which you can watch above, and shows Ella Purnell's Lucy MacLean and Walton Goggins' The Ghoul coming face-to-face with one of the videogame series' iconic Deathclaws.
That Deathclaw encounter aside, season 2's inaugural teaser unsurprisingly puts the series' main characters front and center as they continue to traverse the Wasteland. It also offers our first glimpse at the Fallout TV show's live-action take on New Vegas, aka the main location for one of the videogame series' most beloved entries in Fallout: New Vegas.
The mid-credits scene of last season's finale made clear that New Vegas would feature heavily in one of the best Prime Video shows' second season. Fans, then, were well aware that part of this installment's story would take place there. Nonetheless, it's great to see such a prominent and beloved locale from the games depicted as authentically as possible. Oh, and we'll be spending some time with its dictatorial ruler Mister House, who'll be played by Justin Theroux, in flashback sequences showing New Vegas at the height of its glory.
The first round of footage arrives a day after Fallout season 2's first-look images and four days on from the debuting of Fallout season 2's first poster. With just under four months to go until Amazon's adaptation of Bethesda's iconic game franchise returns, let's hope it hasn't spoiled every surprise that awaits us in season 2.
Season 2 will see familiar faces return from its forebear, including Purnell's Lucy, Goggins' The Ghoul/Cooper Howard, Aaron Moten's Maximus, Kyle MacLachlan's Hank MacLean, and Moises Arias' Norm MacLean. Theroux's addition notwithstanding, Fallout season 2 also reportedly added Home Alone icon Macauley Culkin to its roster last November, but there's still no word on who he'll play.
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