Prime Video’s Fallout Season 2 returns on December 17 with a darker, more personal arc for Lucy as she confronts her father’s past, clashes with The Ghoul, and navigates the brutal wasteland. Ella Purnell, who plays Lucy, reveals what has changed for her character in this season.
Prime Video’s ‘Fallout’, adapted from one of the most beloved video-game universes ever created, is back with a second season that plunges its characters deeper into the wasteland than ever before. Two centuries after the apocalypse, the sheltered idealists of the Vaults once again confront the brutal, bizarre, and darkly comic world their ancestors left behind – a place where survival keeps sliding toward savagery, justice bends until it breaks, and every choice carries a moral scar.
At the heart of the chaos is Lucy, played by Ella Purnell, whose journey shifts dramatically this season. Her story is no longer about wide-eyed wonder or naive optimism. It’s about reckoning, with the world, with the past, and most painfully, with herself.
“The main theme for Lucy this season is very much about grappling with her identity and her moral values,” Purnell explains. “She’s looking for her father again, but for very different reasons. “She’s looking for her father again, but for very different reasons. She’s trying to reconcile the idea of the father she grew up with, the man who taught her the values that she identifies as a core part of her being, and finding out the truth about the horrible things that he’s done.”
That search becomes even more volatile thanks to Lucy’s new “not-entirely-pleasant road-trip buddy”- The Ghoul. Their uneasy partnership adds a razor-edged layer of tension to the season.“They have very different ideas of what they’re going to do when they find her dad,” Purnell says. “Lucy wants to do the right thing – justice, accountability, maybe even redemption. The Ghoul is more like two bullets between the eyes, and you’re done. And that’s a really fun dynamic to play with.”
With those opposing moral codes colliding mile after mile, Fallout Season 2 pushes Lucy into a darker, more emotionally exposed chapter – one that tests her values as much as her survival skills.
Returning for the new season are Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets, Sweetpea), Aaron Moten (Emancipation, Father Stu), Walton Goggins (The White Lotus, The Righteous Gemstones), Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks), Moisés Arias (The King of Staten Island), and Frances Turner (The Boys).
Produced by Kilter Films, with Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy and Athena Wickham serving as executive producers, the highly anticipated Fallout Season 2 premieres globally on December 17, exclusively on Prime Video.
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