One of the biggest surprises of the year was how good Prime’s Fallout series was. The pitch-perfect mixture of disgusting gore, wild absurdism, and post-apocalyptic drama, the video game adaptation received a whopping 16 Emmy nominations. Naturally a second season announcement came almost immediately after the first wrapped. We know the show plans to return “as fast as humanly possible,” and one indication is Deadline‘s report that Macaulay Culkin would be joining the cast in a recurring role.
So far we don’t know much at all about the role, and no one has commented. However, Deadline says the actor will be playing a “crazy genius-type” character. You know, those types? In the Fallout world, it’s not that big of a stretch.
Culkin is, of course, the former behemoth child star whose hit movies included Home Alone, My Girl, and The Good Son. He’s actually already acted opposite Fallout star Walton Goggins, playing Baby Billy’s son Harmon Freeman in HBO’s The Righteous Gemstones in season two.
Fallout season two will continue on with the story and characters of season one. It will also shift some, if not all, of the action to New Vegas as Lucy MacLean (Ella Purnell) and the Ghoul (Goggins) head there to look for her shady father (Kyle MacLachlan). We’re excited to see Culkin join that band of wastelanders.
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