Despite veering off course and setting itself firmly beyond the timeline of the games, the Fallout TV show has been one of the most resounding successes of Hollywood’s current love affair with the video game adaptation. While complaints have been levied at properties such as Netflix’s Devil May Cry show or Zach Cregger’s upcoming Resident Evil film for taking detours from the source material, Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet’s original story set in the Fallout universe has been met with critical praise and love from the fanbase, and it has managed to do it all with a wholly new cast and a mostly original story riffing on the games. The second season of the show introduced New Vegas, the central location from the highly acclaimed Fallout: New Vegas, with Lucy (Ella Purnell) and The Ghoul, aka Cooper Howard (Walton Goggins) converging on the post-apocalyptic tourist resort in search of her father and the truth about Vault-Tec’s conspiracy, while the Brotherhood of Steel’s freshly knighted Maximus grapples with his place in the increasingly corrupt organization as the drumbeat of conflict intensifies in the background.
The finale sets a new course for most of its characters, with Maximus rebelling against the Brotherhood and abandoning his former brethren to find Lucy in New Vegas (just as Caesar’s Legion announced their intent to conquer the city), while The Ghoul sets off for Colorado to find out what happened to his wife and daughter. While season 3 is still a ways away, there’s already lots of speculation as to what it might pull from the games – and with the official Fallout TV show Twitter announcing that Aaron Paul is joining the cast, that speculation is certain to intensify.
