The Wasteland of Fallout is chock-full of untrustworthy figures — outlaws, murderers, and radioactive ghouls — but to hear most fans tell it, few are shadier than Barb Howard (Frances Turner).
The wife of movie star Cooper Howard (Walton Goggins) and the specter that haunts his pre-war flashbacks, Barb’s character has been revealed at a maddening pace across Fallout’s two seasons. That she was seemingly the mastermind behind Vault-Tec’s nuclear armageddon was the series’ most gut-twisting bombshell in Season 1... but nothing is ever as it seems in this war-torn world, and Season 2 pulls the curtain back on Barb in a majorly satisfying way.
