Now that Prime Video has renewed Fallout for a second season, speculation for where the series might head next is picking up steam. From confirmation that one of the game's most ferocious creatures will be making its series debut to strong indications that we'll be headed to an iconic location from the game franchise, there's a lot for fans to be excited about as we head into the sophomore season.
In a recent interview with GQ Magazine, actress Ella Purnell, who plays vault dweller Lucy in the series, revealed what she wants to explore with her character in Season 2.
"I just want her to continue to be funny, because that’s really fun to do. I want her to continue to have really cool stunt sequences, because that’s really fun to do," Purnell said. "I’d like to see her become her own person. I’d like to see her form some opinions that feel truly and wholly hers, and not a product of her upbringing, or a product of Vault-Tec."
"I think part of her being a good person is just truly her, and I think that is just who she is," Purnell continued. "I don’t know if that’s going to stay or going to go, I’d be down to play it either way. But I’d also like to see her go, like, ‘No, I don’t like this food,’ or ‘No, I don’t think what you…’ A little tiny rebellion, maybe."
Purnell's character Lucy is described as "an optimistic Vault-dweller with an all-American can-do spirit." Hopeful, optimistic, and sometimes naive, Lucy's peaceful and idealistic nature is tested throughout the course of the first season as she spends more time in the wasteland in search of her missing father.
Many of her reactions to what she's experiencing on the surface are simply a result of how she was raised in the vault. It's not until the very end that we truly see a shift in her character's nature.
"I want the audience at the end of the show to wonder if their hero is still a good person. I don’t know who she’s gonna be in season two, [but] this is what happens when you break the unbreakable. I don’t know who she’s about to become," Purnell said.
All eight episodes of the first season of Fallout are now streaming exclusively on Prime Video. There's no word on when production will begin on the second season, but series executive producer Jonathan Nolan is "hopeful" that we won't have to wait long.