Fallout TV show star says Season 2 starts filming soon, and that her character’s “got some things up her sleeve”
Season 2 of Amazon’s popular Fallout TV show is slated to start filming next month.
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Six months after the explosive debut of the first season of theFallout TV showthat’s based on the acclaimed RPG series, we finally know whenSeason 2will begin filming — and according to the actress behind one of its major characters, it’s happening soon.
The news comes from a newScreen Rant report, in which the publication noted that during a New York Comic Con interview about the recently released film Deadpool & Wolverine, actress Leslie Uggams briefly discussed Amazon’sFalloutshow. In addition to talking about the quality of the series itself and her role as Betty Pearson, Uggams also directly confirmed that filming is scheduled to begin next month.
“That is an amazing, amazing show. I am with the Vault People, so I didn’t get to see what the Earth people were doing. So when it came on, I was blown away. But Betty’s got some things up her sleeve. Just stay tuned,” Uggams said, hinting that her character is hiding something or has secret plans that could have a major impact on the events of Season 2. “We start November. I’m excited about it,” she added.
Betty Pearson — a former Overseer of Vault 33 that takes office once again during the events of Season 1 — is one of the show’s more enigmatic characters, and arguably one of its best outside of the main cast of Lucy MacLean (Ella Purnell), the Ghoul (Walton Goggins), and Maximus (Aaron Moten). I won’t spoil anything specific here, but when Lucy’s brother Norm MacLean (Moisés Arias) starts investigating Vault 33 and its neighboring Vaults, he learns something significant about her, and she has some eyebrow-raising reactions to some of his comments that suggest there’s more to her pleasant demeanor than she lets on.
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It’s no surprise, then, that she likely has an ace in the hole or a scheme she’s working to carry out. Whatissurprising, though, is that Fallout Season 2 is already about to start filming even though it’s only been just over half a year since the show’s April 10 premiere. That means the second season’s script and pre-production work was completed in that time, which is a pretty quick turnaround.
Shoots for Season 1 began two years before its debut in July 2022, so if Season 2 follows a similar schedule, it may not come out until around fall 2026. With that said, an earlier release date is entirely possible, especially since the show’s production staff now have experience working on it and can presumably reuse many of the costumes, props, and sets from the first season. Many applauded the showrunners' decision to largely use practical assets instead of tons of computer-generated imagery (CGI), and that choice may help accelerate production moving forward.
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Of course, Season 2 will undoubtedly require the creation of plenty ofnewset pieces too, so between the time needed for that and the filming and editing process itself, it’s clear that the next act of this new Fallout story is still quite a ways off. I’d say early 2026 is a pretty reasonable guess, but we may see Amazon and Bethesda push for a late 2025 release, too. After all,the show won two Emmy Awardsandreached over 100 million viewers on Prime Videoearlier this month.
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As for the content of Season 2,it’s been all but confirmedthat at least part of the story will move to the Mojave Wasteland and the city of New Vegas, both of which were the setting of the beloved 2010 title Fallout: New Vegas. The show — set 15 years after New Vegas' events — will follow up on “one of the myriad canon endings” of the game, as well as Season 1’s many different cliffhangers.
Something worth noting is that all of the Fallout games are available to play on Microsoft’s gaming subscription serviceXbox Game Pass, with the PC-only Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics exclusively available onPC Game Pass(Xbox Game Pass Ultimateincludes access to every Fallout game available on both Xbox and PC). Many of them are some of thebest Xbox gamesandbest PC gamesI’ve ever played, and even the ones I don’t love like Fallout 76 are still at least worth checking out.
Brendan Lowry is a Windows Central writer and Oakland University graduate with a burning passion for video games, of which he’s been an avid fan since childhood. He’s been writing for Team WC since the summer of 2017, and you’ll find him doing news, editorials, reviews, and general coverage on everything gaming, Xbox, and Windows PC. His favorite game of all time is probably NieR: Automata, though Elden Ring, Fallout: New Vegas, and Team Fortress 2 are in the running, too. When he’s not writing or gaming, there’s a good chance he’s either watching an interesting new movie or TV show or actually going outside for once.Follow him on X(Twitter).
