Like a nibble at the neck, Rolin Jones’ gorgeously gothic Interview with the Vampire had viewers twisting this way and that. Season 2 takes us back into the room with Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) and Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian), as the vampire recounts his escape to Paris and introduction to the alluring Theatre Des Vampires.
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The fate of Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) hangs in the balance after the attempts on his life at the Mardi Gras ball, with Molloy figuring that Louis secretly engineered a means for his survival. The season finale also revealed that Louis’ apparent human servant Rashid is actually Armand (Assad Zaman), his vampire lover, though it appears we’ll meet the real Rashid (Bally Gill) in Paris.
The growing mass of deceptions and half-truths has cast doubts over Louis’ recollections, though season 2 purports to trace his and Claudia’s (Delainey Hayles) initiation into the world of Old World Vampires, a hedonistic community with an insatiable appetite for high culture.
Read our guide below for how to watch Interview with the Vampire season 2 online and from anywhere in the world.
How to watch Interview with the Vampire S2 from anywhere
If you are traveling away from home, you may be unable to watch like you normally would due to regional restrictions. Luckily, there’s an easy solution.
Downloading a VPN allows you to stream online, no matter where you are. It’s a simple bit of software that changes your IP address, meaning that you can access on-demand content or live TV just as if you were at home. And NordVPN is the no. 1-rated provider you can get right now.
Use a VPN to watch from anywhere:
How to use a VPN
Three simple steps to using a VPN to watch your usual TV services when traveling abroad:
2. Connect to the relevant server location – launch the VPN app, click on ‘choose location’ and select the right location e.g. UK for BBC iPlayer
3. Head to the chosen broadcaster’s live stream – in this case AMC Plus
Interview with the Vampire S2 global streams
Watch Interview with the Vampire S2 in the US
In the US, Interview with the Vampire season 2 premieres on AMC on Sunday, May 12 at 9pm ET/PT.
Alternatively, you can stream the show on AMC Plus, which starts at $4.99 per month after a seven-day free trial. If you’re happy to commit to the ad-free, $83.88 12-month subscription, that will work out at $6.99 per month.
AMC is a broadcast network that’s accessible through a cable TV package, but if you’ve already cut the cord you can also watch AMC on a live TV service, like Sling TV or Philo.
Can I watch Interview with the Vampire S2 in the UK?
There’s no word yet on when Interview with the Vampire season 2 will arrive in the UK, though it’s likely to be worth the wait.
That’s because the previous season – which landed 12 months after the U.S. premiere – was free-to-air on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer.
For now, anybody currently abroad in the U.K. from the U.S. can use one of the best VPN services, such as NordVPN, to access their usual streaming service.
Can I watch Interview with the Vampire S2 in Australia?
It’s a similar situation in Australia, where the previous season of Interview with the Vampire was on free-to-air ABC and iview, albeit seven months after the US premiere.
If you’re away from home use NordVPN to access your usual streaming service.
How to watch RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars season 9
The queens are back. But this time the only tea being spilt is chari-tea, as the altruistic all stars compete to win $200,000 for the good cause of their choice. Don’t expect that to stop these gurls from dropping, splitting and lip syncing for their lives, though! See how to watch RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars season 9 from wherever on the planet you are, with episodes streaming exclusively on Paramount Plus in the US.
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Eight memorable mugs from Drag Race seasons gone by return to the Werk Room for another bite of Ru’s cherry. And this time they’re going to give ’til it hurts, as they compete for that huge charity jackpot prize; The Trevor Project, Trans Lifeline and the National Alliance on Mental Illness are among the good causes that the queens have put forward as potential lucky beneficiaries.
But some things never change, and the elegant eight will still have to show the usual levels of Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve and Talent to impress Mama Ru, Michelle Visage and the revolving door of celebrity guest judges that this year include Keke Palmer, Alec Mapa, Connie Britton and Oscar-nominated Everything Everywhere All At Once actor Stephanie Hsu.
And of course they queens will be looking to avoid those fatal words: “Sashay away!”
At the bottom of this article, you’ll find a full list of the all star queens who are sashaying their way into the studio. And, before that, you’ll discover all the information you need to watch RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars season 9 online – including options to watch for free and from anywhere.
How to watch RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars season 9 in the US
How to watch RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars from outside your country
Away from home but want to stream RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars season 9 online? You may be restricted from watching your usual Paramount Plus or other usual domestic streams due to geo-blocking.
Luckily, there’s an easy solution. Downloading a VPN will allow you to watch no matter where you are. It’s a simple bit of software that changes your IP address, meaning that you can access on-demand content or live TV as if you were back at home.
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RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars season 9: Meet the Queens
Angeria Paris VanMicheals, 29 from Los Angeles, California
Gottmik, 26 from Los Angeles, California
Jorgeous, 23 from Los Angeles, California
Nina West, 44 from Columbus, Ohio
Plastique Tiara, 26 from Los Angeles, California
Roxxxy Andrews, 39 from Orlando, Florida
Shannel, 44 from Las Vegas, Nevada
Vanessa Vanjie Mateo, 31 from Los Angeles, California
RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars season 9: episode guide
RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars season 9 episode guide
The first teaser for One Piece season 2 has landed, and it pretty much confirms the story the season is going to tell and which characters are going to appear in it.
The tease was a video uploaded to TikTok, in which Iñaki Godoy celebrated Monkey D. Luffy’s birthday with a cake that looks like a big ol’ candle. That cake had a candle on top, which was shaped like the number three – and that is almost certainly a very big hint about which story arc we’re going to see this time around.
Where Netflix‘s One Piece season one went with the East Blue story from the manga, the teaser suggests that we’re going to follow the Arabasta story arc. That focused on the Baroque Works criminal syndicate, which features an array of villains named after numbers and holidays – including a certain Mr 3, who – as IGN notes – can create and control candle wax.
Netflix’s teaser all but confirms the fans’ speculation
One Piece fans were already pretty sure that the next season would follow the Arabasta story arc, not least because there was a reference to it early in the first season. A red-haired Baroque Works character called Mr 7 featured in one of the opening scenes of season one, and was promptly killed off by Zoro.
That raises the tantalizing possibility that we’re going to see a whole bunch of the Baroque Works baddies this time around. And there are lots of them, with the male agents given numbers and the female ones given holidays – so in addition to mastermind Mr 0, there are agents Mr 1, Mr 2, Mr 3, Mr 4 and Mr 5 plus Miss All Sunday, Miss Doublefinger, Miss Goldenweek, Miss Merry Christmas and Miss Valentine, among others.
With each character having their own odd abilities, there’s scope for a lot of fun here. And there could be more: fans are hoping that Tony Tony Chopper, a shape-shifting reindeer absent from the first season, could also make an appearance.
Other details are still under wraps, but we’re expecting the second season to begin filming this summer for a streaming release in 2025 – it’s a long wait for the return of one of the best Netflix shows of the last couple of years, but it’ll be worth it, we hope.
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Amazon has unveiled a new trailer for The Boys season 4 – and, I don’t know about you, but I didn’t have superpowered, violent farm animals on my bingo card for the show’s next installment.
Revealed yesterday (May 3) during The Boys season 4 panel at Mexico Comic-Con – and released online immediately after its world premiere – the series’ latest trailer teases another blood-soaked entry on Prime Video. Not only that, though, it also confirms that key storylines from companion show Gen V will carry over into the main series. Oh, and that all-out war between the titular vigilantes and the Seven, the most-famous superhero team in The Boys universe, is about to erupt. And yes, those are Compound V-injected, Supe-d up farm animals – including an Alien-like, chest bursting flock of chickens and a group of flying sheep.
But enough teasing. Check out the official trailer for The Boys‘ fourth outing below:
This new batch of footage gives us a even better idea of what to expect from one of the best Prime Video shows‘ fourth installment. Where those Gen V ties are concerned there’s Billy revealing the existence of a Supe-killing virus to the rest of the titular crew, and appearances from superpowered college kids Sam and Cate (read our Gen V season 1 ending explained article for more details on all of this).
Elsewhere, we see Homelander’s devilish plan to seemingly make humanity bow to the Seven as new age gods. Then, there’s the apparent confirmation that politician (and secret Supe) Victoria Neuman is the US’ new vice president, plenty of brutal and gory action sequences (we’d expect nothing less from The Boys), and the ongoing ‘custody battle’ between Billy and Homelander for Ryan’s soul. In short: I can’t wait for season 4 to debut on one of the world’s best streaming services.
Is season 4 going to be the last we’ll see of The Boys?
More chaos coming, and it ain’t controlled. The Boys Season 4 arrives June 13. pic.twitter.com/ighOy4tv2WMay 2, 2024
No. Season 4’s latest trailer seems to suggest that this will be the hit show’s final entry, but it appears that showrunner Eric Kripke isn’t putting a number on how many seasons The Boys will run for.
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Originally, he revealed (via an X/Twitter Q&A in October 2020) that he had a five-season plan for the R-rated live-action series. However, speaking to Inverse in November 2023, Kripke said of The Boys‘ future: “I have since realized that literally no one in history is worse at predicting the amount of seasons of a show. I have learned my lesson and I’ve stopped predicting how many seasons these shows go. You will find out in hindsight.”
Of course, this could be smoke and mirrors on Kripke’s part. Gen V season 1 could technically be viewed as The Boys season 4, given the amount of characters who cross over from the main show into the college-based spin-off. Gen V season 2 is on the way, too, though its development was recently paused due to the shock passing of star Chance Perdamo. Add that duo together with The Boys‘ four seasons, and there’s an argument to be made that we’ve had six seasons set in The Boys‘ live-action universe. Heck, it’s actually seven seasons if you count anthology TV show The Boys Presents: Diabolical.
In summary, then: no, The Boys season 4 won’t bring Amazon’s hit franchise to an end. It could theoretically spell the end of the mainline series, but I think there’s at least one more season left in the tank for Billy, Homelander, and company, regardless of whether they feature in Gen V season 2.
Enjoy the rest of the MLS season at a sweet discount, starting now. Photo: MLS
Soccer fans can watch the rest of the MLS season for $69. That’s $30 less than what Apple typically charges for an MLS Season Pass.
Subscribers can stream every match plus analysis and exclusive content. No Apple device required.
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Apple is the exclusive source for streaming Major League Soccer in over 100 countries. Its MLS Season Pass subscription has given fans access to the games since the start of the season in February with no blackouts.
Joining now means you’ve missed a few games, but it comes with a significant discount. The cost is down to $69, or $59 for Apple TV+ subscribers. That’s $30 less than the price at the start of the season, as noted.
And there’s plenty of soccer still to come. The Pass includes the rest of the season plus the entire playoffs and the League Cup.
Note that, unless it’s cancelled, the MLS Season Pass subscription automatically renews at the beginning of the 2025 season at the regular price.
Apple offers this sports streaming service but it it’s watchable from a wide variety of devices. Beyond iPhone, Mac and iPad, the Apple TV app is available on smart TVs, streaming devices, set-top boxes, and game consoles, as well as on the web at tv.apple.com.
Apple today dropped the price of the MLS Season Pass for the rest of the 2024 Major League Soccer season, which is about a third of the way through.
MLS in the U.S. now costs $69, down from $99 when the season began in February. For Apple TV+ subscribers, the pass is now just $59.
The MLS Season Pass offers access to every live Major League Soccer match, including Leagues Cup, and All-Star games. Apple offered a similar discount last year, but it came later in the season in September.
The 2024 Major League Soccer season will run through October 19, and the MLS Season Pass also includes live coverage of the playoffs that are expected to start in mid-October. The MLS Season Pass is available in the TV app on Apple devices and on Apple TV 4K.
In his Power On newsletter today, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman outlined some of the new products he expects Apple to announce at its “Let Loose” event on May 7. First, Gurman now believes there is a “strong possibility” that the upcoming iPad Pro models will be equipped with Apple’s next-generation M4 chip, rather than the M3 chip that debuted in the MacBook Pro and iMac six months ago. He said a …
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman today said that iOS 18 will “overhaul” many of Apple’s built-in apps, including Notes, Mail, Photos, and Fitness. Gurman did not reveal any specific new features planned for these apps. It was previously rumored that the Notes app will gain support for displaying more math equations, and a built-in option to record voice memos, but this is the first time we have…
Apple’s upcoming iPad Pro models will feature “by far the best OLED tablet panels on the market,” according to Display Supply Chain Consultants. Set to be announced on May 7, the OLED iPad Pro models will feature LTPO (a more power efficient form of OLED), a 120Hz ProMotion refresh rate, and a tandem stack and glass thinning that will bring “ultra-thin and light displays” that support high…
Apple has announced it will be holding a special event on Tuesday, May 7 at 7 a.m. Pacific Time (10 a.m. Eastern Time), with a live stream to be available on Apple.com and on YouTube as usual. The event invitation has a tagline of “Let Loose” and shows an artistic render of an Apple Pencil, suggesting that iPads will be a focus of the event. Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more …
Apple is set to unveil iOS 18 during its WWDC keynote on June 10, so the software update is a little over six weeks away from being announced. Below, we recap rumored features and changes planned for the iPhone with iOS 18. iOS 18 will reportedly be the “biggest” update in the iPhone’s history, with new ChatGPT-inspired generative AI features, a more customizable Home Screen, and much more….
New iPads are coming, and Apple is holding a virtual event to introduce them! While it appears likely to be a relatively short video event, we should be seeing new iPad Pro and iPad Air models, some new accessories, and perhaps some additional surprises. Other Apple news and rumors this week included word that Apple is FINALLY planning to introduce a native Calculator app for the iPad later…
MILF Manor, the dating show that provoked a thousand pearl-clutching op-eds bewailing the loss of some fabled age of reality TV innocence, turned out to be a massive hit, so it’s back for season 2. It’s outrageous and it flaunts it, so keep reading as we explain how to watch MILF Manor season 2 online and from anywhere.
The show brings together a pride of MILFs and a gaggle of single young men – and you see where this is going. Each of the men is one of the MILFs’ sons, and each of the MILFs is one of the men’s mothers. That was the first season’s infamous twist and, to keep things fresh, the show’s producers are promising an “even more twisted” one for season 2.
Being set in a lakefront manor in Canada, expect much scratching of maple syrup, beaver and mountie itches, amid the usual dating show escapades that carry such a toe-curling quality here.
Truth or dare, for instance, or underwear raids, double-dates, hot tub antics, sleepovers in shared rooms and blindfolded massages. As April and Gabriel so memorably found out, that last one is a particularly hazardous minefield.
Read on as we explain how to watch MILF Manor season 2, with and without cable, from anywhere in the world.
How to watch MILF Manor season 2 in the US
How to watch MILF Manor season 2 without cable
How to watch MILF Manor season 2 online from outside your country
If you’re abroad when MILF Manor season 2 airs, you’ll find that you’re unable to keep up with all the weirdness because of annoying regional restrictions.
Luckily, there’s an easy solution. Downloading a VPN service will allow you to stream MILF Manor online from anywhere. It’s a simple bit of software that changes your IP address, meaning that you can access on-demand content or live TV just as if you were at home.
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Can you watch MILF Manor season 2 in Australia?
Can you watch MILF Manor season 2 in the UK?
Can you watch MILF Manor season 2 in Canada?
At the time of writing, any plans to make MILF Manor available to watch in Canada are yet to be announced.
– Announced in mid-April – No release date revealed yet – Unsurprisingly, a trailer is yet to be unveiled – Cast and plot details are thin on the ground – Main cast members are expected to return – Should pick up right after the season 1 finale – Season 3 hasn’t been greenlit, but discussions about future installments have taken place
Fallout season 2 is officially in development. That’s right, the hit Amazon series has been renewed for a second season after the *ahem* rad reception season 1 was met with. So, gear up for more outlandishly funny moments, bizarre retrofuturistic adventuring, captivating melodrama, and a smorgasbord of Easter eggs from Bethesda’s iconic video game universe (which the TV show is also set in).
With the popular Prime Video show’s next entry still in early development, it’ll be some time before we learn anything official about its release date, get news about its cast and plot, and see any footage. Still, based on what happened in season 1 of Amazon’s Fallout TV show, we can speculate on all of the above and more in this guide.
Before you dive in: if you haven’t seen Fallout‘s first season, a) what are you doing here!? and b) read our Fallout season 1 review first to see what all the fuss is about. Then, go and stream it because, from this point on, major spoilers follow for Fallout season 1.
Fallout season 2 release date: what we know
Wouldn’t want to keep you on the edge of your seat, now, would we? See you back in the Wasteland for SEASON 2. pic.twitter.com/ULs6DEPHDWApril 18, 2024
Fallout season 2 doesn’t have a release date. It was only announced by Amazon on April 18 and, as it’s in early development, a launch date won’t be revealed for a long time.
It’s difficult to pinpoint when we might see one of the best Prime Video shows make its irradiated return, too, as we’ve no idea how far along in the development process it is. In short: it could be 18 months to two years before the first live-action story set in Bethesda’s satirical post-apocalyptic game series re-emerges from its vault.
Fallout season 2 rumored cast
Lucy MacLean should return in Fallout season 2. (Image credit: Prime Video/JoJo Whilden)
Amazon hasn’t announced which cast members will be back in Fallout season 2. Based on season 1’s ending, however, we’re confident that the following will return:
Ella Purnell as Lucy MacLean
Aaron Moten as Maximus
Walton Goggins as The Ghoul/Cooper Howard
Kyle MacLachlan as Hank MacLean
Moisés Arias as Norm MacLean
Xelia Mendes-Jones as Dane
Johnny Pemberton as Thaddeus
Frances Turner as Barb Howard
Leslie Uggams as Betty Pearson
Other supporting cast members are also likely to be back, including Dave Register’s Chet, Annabel O’Hagen’s Stephanie, Zach Cherry’s Woody, and Rodrigo Luzzi’s Reg for the Vaults-based storyline.
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Michael Esper and Sarita Choudhury might reprise their roles as Vault-Tec employee Bud Askins and the New California Republic (NCR) commander Lee Moldaver, too. We’d be surprised if season 2 doesn’t deliver more flashback sequences that predate the Great War and/or explore more about the NCR’s creation and role in founding Shady Sands. If it does, Askins and Moldaver will certainly be back.
There are also bound to be new additions to the show’s acting roster. Speaking to IGN, season 1 director and executive producer Jonathan Nolan revealed that Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad, Westworld) has already inquired about featuring in season 2, so don’t be surprised if more famous faces cameo in the same manner as Matt Berry (What We Do in the Shadows) in season 1.
Fallout season 2 plot speculation
What does the future hold for Maximus in the Brotherhood of Steel? (Image credit: Prime Video)
There isn’t a plot synopsis for Fallout season 2 yet. Nobody – outside of the main creative team, anyway – knows what it’ll entail, but we can speculate on where the series might go, based on season 1’s numerous unresolved plot threads and what some of its crew have teased in interviews.
In non-spoiler terms, Nolan exclusively told TechRadar (ahead of season 1’s release) that the Fallout crew have “had some really cool conversations” about season 2, some of which could impact future games in the series that Bethesda creates (remember, everything that happens in Fallout‘s TV show is canon in the wider franchise). He declined to elaborate further when pressed for more details, though. Now that the first season is out in full, however, we have a better idea of what might lie in store for Lucy and company very soon.
Full spoilers follow for Fallout season 1 from now on. Don’t read past the image below unless you want firm details on what’ll be part of the second season.
Fallout‘s season 1 finale was an explosive one. (Image credit: Amazon Studios)
One of the most important storylines, if not the most, that needs to be built upon involves Hank, Lucy and Norm’s dad.
In the season 1 finale, Hank was revealed as one of Vault-Tec’s junior employees who was placed in cryosleep, alongside the likes of Betty Pearson, inside Vault 31 before The Great War. He was then reawakened over 200 years later to help Vault-Tec try to tyrannically rule the post-apocalyptic United States. He was also responsible for The Fall of Shady Sands – a cataclysmic event that saw a nuclear bomb dropped on the town that the NCR operated out of. As an aside, the NCR were almost wiped from existence during their showdown with the Brotherhood in episode 8 but, speaking to IGN, Howard teased: “I don’t think you’ve heard the last of the NCR.”
But we digress. Lucy’s mom, and Hank’s wife, Rose was turned into a ghoul as a result of radiation poisoning from said warhead (Lucy kills her to end Rose’s misery in episode 8, by the way), while Maximus’ entire family was killed during the initial blast. Oh, and Hank was also the Vault-Tec employee who was one of the biggest fans of Cooper Howard – i.e. the A-list actor that The Ghoul used to be. In short: Hank has strong ties to all three of the series’ main characters.
Fallout episode 8 revealed Hank’s real identity and villainous role in the show’s story. (Image credit: JoJo Whilden/Prime Video)
After those revelations came to light, Hank – who was accidentally freed by Maximus before Lucy could tell Maximus about Hank’s villainous past – managed to escape in a stolen T60 power armor suit. He suffered a facial injury after being shot by The Ghoul, though, so he’ll have the physical scars – as well as the mental and emotional ones – to show for his misdemeanors.
Okay, why is all of this so important? The final few minutes of episode 8 revealed that Lucy and The Ghoul had formed an uneasy alliance to track Hank down. For her part, Lucy will want more answers about her dad’s involvement with Vault-Tec and his familial betrayal.
As for the harrowing, eye-opening, and world-shattering journey Lucy has gone on throughout season 1, it’s clear it’s left its mark on Fallout‘s primary protagonist – Purnell telling GQ that “I don’t know who she’s gonna be in season 2, [but] this is what happens when you break the unbreakable. I don’t know who she’s about to become. How Lucy feels about her hope… she recognises that something is irreversibly lost, or broken, inside her. Maybe she still does maintain it in season 2, but it will never be the same. It can’t.”
And what does Purnell want to tackle in Lucy’s season 2 arc? “I’d like to see her become her own person,” she tells GQ. “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. 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.”
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Meanwhile, The Ghoul needs to find Hank to learn which vault his wife and daughter – Barb and Janey – are in. As Barb revealed at various points in season 1, the high-ranking Vault-Tec staff member secured a place in one of the evil corporation’s most prestigious underground bunkers for her family, Cooper included. Of course, the implied breakdown of Cooper and Barb’s marriage – something we should learn more about in season 2 – suggests that Cooper’s reserved place was taken away following their divorce, forcing him to survive as an irradiated ghoul on the surface. It’s possible Barb and Janey survived The Great War if they were cryogenically frozen in Vault 31 or another subterranean location and Hank may know where.
The Ghoul – formally Cooper Howard – continues to search for his missing family. (Image credit: Prime Video)
All of this points to Hank being the show’s primary antagonist moving forward, right? Not necessarily. Speaking to IGN, Nolan simply teased “you’ll have to stay tuned” to find out if this is the case.
So, who else could it be? The season 1 finale revealed that Barb was also involved in concocting the idea of The Great War in a bid to line Vault-Tec’s pockets and ensure it was well positioned to laud it over the US after the nuclear apocalypse.
She was joined in that pivotal meeting by other scheming executives looking to make a quick buck, including RobCo owner Robert House (played by Rafi Silver). In Bethesda title Fallout: New Vegas, this Machiavellian individual (known as Mr. House in New Vegas) is the enigmatic ruler of the titular city. And, with Fallout season 2 seemingly heading to a dilapidated version of New Vegas – it’s the location we see Hank look out onto in the season 1 finale’s mid-credits scene – there’s the potential for Mr. House to take a leading, villainous role in the show’s sophomore outing.
Speaking to GQ, co-showrunner Graham Wagner didn’t exactly shoot down that possibility, saying: “We certainly intend to expand on that [the Vault-Tec meeting and its nefarious characters]. That is an interesting moment to be double-clicked, as they say, in a future story.”
The New Vegas tease isn’t the only thing that delighted long-time fans in the mid-credits scene. We also got a glimpse of a Deathclaw skull, one of the most formidable monsters in the Fallout universe. Speaking to The Wrap post-season 1 release, Wagner confirmed Deathclaws would appear in season 2, adding: “It’s such a monumental piece, we want to save something for season 2 to be able to do it properly, not just added onto the massive world building we had to do already in season 1. So season 2, we’re very excited to finally tackle one of the most iconic elements of the games.”
Let’s not forget Maximus’ role in proceedings heading into season 2. With his fellow Brotherhood of Steel, erm, brothers believing that he was the one who killed Moldaver – his friend Dane convinces them that this was the case – it seems he’s set for a more influential role in the group’s hierarchy. But, with Maximus having fallen for Lucy during the pair’s excursions across the Wasteland, coupled with his worldview being altered by all of those season 1 revelations, we expect Maximus’ allegiances to be torn between staying with the Brotherhood and wanting to find and be with Lucy.
There are plenty of other subplots that require further examination. One of the more prominent ones concerns how Norm will free himself after being trapped in Vault 31. As Arias told Inverse, Norm is “going to have to use every ounce of intellect he has to get himself out of that one”, which hints at a protracted jailbreak for Lucy’s inquisitive brother.
Will Norm and Chet ever reunite to reveal the truth about Vaults 31 to 33? (Image credit: JoJo Whilden/Prime Video)
Other notable storylines include some of Vault 33’s inhabitants resettling in the deserted Vault 32 (and whether Chet will finally reveal what actually happened there), how Moldaver survived for over 200 years without turning into a ghoul like Cooper (Choudhury declined to give away any answers when asked by Inverse), and how and when Cooper and Barb’s marriage ended. The answers to this trio lie in flashbacks to a time before The Great War and what Vault-Tec’s overarching goal is, so we can expect more glimpses into the past when season 2 rolls around.
In the present, we might catch up with Thaddeus, who believes he’s starting to become a ghoul after he consumed a mysterious serum from the cryptic Snake Oil Salesman that healed his mangled foot and saved him from a near-death experience with an arrow-based trap. We may get more details on cold fusion, a new non-Vault-Tec technological advancement that might offer hope of a brighter future for the surface-dwelling common folk. Oh, and let’s not forget Lucy and Maximus’ burgeoning romance, which is on ice for the time being, given the pair have temporarily gone their separate ways – Nolan teasing to IGN that “we’ll see if they can find each other again”.
Then there are subplots that were cut from season 1. During their chat with GQ, Wagner and fellow co-showrunner Geneva Robertson-Dworet revealed that “a cannibal encounter” was dropped for runtime purposes, but the pair are confident “we’ll find a place in season two for some of those, because some of them were really fun, and it was tragic to lose them.”
It goes without saying, but we’ll also get plenty more Easter eggs and references to the dense Fallout universe that Bethesda created in its game series. There were tons of those in season 1, so don’t be surprised if its follow-up is similarly stuffed with callbacks to the show’s action role-playing game siblings.
Fallout season 2 trailer: is there one?
Pensively waiting for that season 2 trailer to arrive like… (Image credit: JoJo Whilden/Prime Video)
No, and there won’t be a Fallout season 2 trailer for a long time. Once one is released, we’ll update this section.
Is Fallout season 2 going to be the final installment?
Can we expect Lucy and company to appear in a potential third season? (Image credit: Amazon Studios)
Nobody knows. Right now, Nolan and Co are focused on developing Fallout season 2 and that’s likely to be the case until its development is complete.
Chatting to IGN, Nolan said of plans for future seasons: “I think you have a responsibility when you undertake one of these journeys to have a bit of a plan. You’d also be foolish to not account for the things along the way… but you also want to be flexible enough and adaptable enough that you’re not locked into that. And for the obvious reason that especially these days with these shows, you want to make every season as great as you can.
“If you’re lucky enough to go again, you make a follow-up, you leave enough material and you have enough of a master plan from the beginning that you know what the next step would be, and we have been talking for some time now about the next steps for Fallout, and we’re very excited about it.”
Given the richness of Bethesda’s Fallout franchise, there’s plenty more for Prime Video’s adaptation to explore and expand on from the games. If the show doesn’t wrap up its main characters’ stories by the end of season 2, it could continue to follow them in a third installment. Alternatively, season 3 could be set in an entirely new location (not unlike the games) and introduce us to new characters to not only fall in love with but also see how they navigate a post-nuclear war-torn Earth and potentially unearth new revelations about Vault-Tec. Think along the lines of an anthology series like True Detective (now available on Max), or Fargo and American Horror Story (Hulu and Disney Plus), and you’ll get the gist.
Whatever direction Amazon’s Fallout TV series goes in, then, there’s plenty more material – old and new – to mine and explore respectively. War never changes – and neither will our adoration for this show if it continues to be as good as season 1 was. Roll on season 2 and more besides, we say.
Mayor of Kingstown, the explosive crime drama set in a city that sometimes resembles Hell on Earth, is one of the most brutal shows on TV – and judging by the newly released trailer for season three on Paramount Plus, it hasn’t suddenly become Paradise. The trailer is action-packed and enormously exciting – and it’s also nice to see Jeremy Renner looking good so soon after a real-life horrific snowmobile accident that left him fighting for his life.
If you’re not already familiar with the show, it features Renner as Michigan crime boss Mike McLusky – and in season three he’s up against a new face of the Russian mob who’s set up shop in the city while a drug war rages inside and outside the city’s prison walls. In this season, McLusky is under incredible pressure to end that war, but things get complicated when a familiar face from his prison past appears and threatens all his efforts to stop the city from exploding.
Renner’s back
The new series of Kingstown is Renner’s acting comeback after his 2023 accident, an accident that broke 38 bones and required his ribcage to be rebuilt with metal. Renner also has metal plates in his face and titanium rods in one of his legs, causing him to joke to The Hollywood Reporter that he’s “Titanium Man” now. That makes the new video all the more remarkable, because Renner looks as good as new.
Filming the show hasn’t been easy, though. As Renner explained, “Doing television is quite arduous. It’s long hours and a lot of heavy lifting. So I’m just focusing on this right now, and will see how I come out at the end of it. Because my number one priority still is my recovery and strengthening and just getting better, internally and externally, every day.”
While nothing has been discussed just yet, Renner says he’s keen to return to the Marvel universe “whether it’s season two of Hawkeye the series, or something in the Marvel universe in cinema”. “The answer is yes, if I get a phone call and they want to do it… if I’m welcome back, I’m always gonna say yeah.”
Season 3 of Mayor of Kingstown will stream on Paramount Plus from 2 June.
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There’s good news for fans of William Gibson’s fictional AINeuromancer and Wednesday, the ongoing tales of Charles Addams’ creepy and kooky family. Both shows’ already impressive casts have just announced some equally impressive new additions.
First up, BAFTA award-nominated Callum Turner from Masters of the Airand The Boys in the Boat is going to be appearing in Neuromancer. Based on Gibson’s book of the same name, it’s a 10-part Apple TV Plus series following a largely broken top-tier hacker called Case (Turner). Case stumbles into a tangled web of electronic espionage and corporate skulduggery with suitably thrilling results, and the source novel won stacks of literary awards and helped define what would come to be known as cyberpunk.
I’ve got high hopes for this one. I loved Gibson’s books but despite Keanu Reeve’s best efforts in JohhnyMnemonic, which was based on one of Gibson’s short stories, he’s proved hard to adapt well. This new series is coming from the same production company as Foundation, so the omens here are very good indeed.
See you next Wednesday
Every new casting announcement for Wednesday season two is an exciting one, and fresh from the revelation that Steve Buscemi would be appearing in the second season of the Netflix show we have another massive name: Thandiwe Newton. Best known for her Emmy-winning role in Westword, Newton was also great in movies such as Crash, Beloved and The Pursuit of Happyness.
The casting news comes via Variety, which has the exclusive – but unfortunately Variety’s sources don’t yet know any more details. And that’s true of season two more widely. As Variety says: “Few details are available about the new season of Wednesday, aside from the fact Jenna Ortega will return as the titular Addams Family daughter going through her teenage years.” The show is one of Netflix’s biggest ever hits and racked up an incredible 12 Emmy nominations, of which it won four – so you can see why Netflix managing to attract such big-name talent for the second season.
Both Neuromancer and season two of Wednesday are expected to stream this year, although there’s no news of a streaming date for either show just yet.
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