The first season of Fallout may not have been a straightforward adaptation of any game in the apocalyptic series, but Season 2 is poised to deliver its take on one of the franchise’s most beloved stories, New Vegas. Trailers have already teased the arrival of a fan favorite villain, Mr. House (Justin Theroux), and his connection to an original character created for the series, the Ghoul (Walton Goggins). Like Season 1, the new season of the Prime Video series will straddle past and present. Half its story will follow the adventures of the Ghoul back when he was still the movie star known as Cooper Howard, tracing the beginnings of his relationship with Mr. House. The other half of Fallout Season 2 will reunite these characters decades after the nuclear apocalypse that turned North America into a wasteland and the Ghoul into... well, the Ghoul.
According to Theroux, Mr. House’s scenes with the Ghoul are more about words than action. “We have a couple of really incredible scenes that are just these big, heavyweight bouts of intellect,” the actor recently told Empire. “It was like doing Waiting For Godot in the middle of the whole thing.”
