The Fallout fandom is fired up for Season 2, especially after the Season 1 finale sent Lucy and The Ghoul on the road to New Vegas. That pairing instantly sparked a wave of online shipping, with fans playfully imagining a romance brewing between the optimistic Vault Dweller and the long suffering gunslinger.
Now Ella Purnell is stepping in to set the record straight and she is not sugarcoating anything. During an interview with Geek Culture, Purnell was asked once again about a potential romance between Lucy and The Ghoul, prompting a very candid response.
Walton Goggins and Aaron Moten were taken aback by the question, but Purnell was familiar with it, and responded: “I get asked this quite a lot,” she said, before pointing out that it was “quite telling that I get asked and you don’t”.
She followed that up with a perfectly deadpan reality check. “Here’s what I would say. You guys need therapy. You can’t fix him. You can’t save him. Let it go. Let it go, hon.”
She continued by framing the characters’ dynamic in a way that makes sense for the show’s story. According to Purnell, Lucy and The Ghoul share something meaningful, just not romantic.
“What the Ghoul and Lucy have is a really beautiful thing. They’re both looking for the people that they love. Let’s leave it at that.” It is a grounded take that aligns perfectly with how Fallout season 1 explored trauma, loss, and the messy ways people survive the wasteland.
As for where the story goes next, Season 2 dives straight into the aftermath of Lucy’s heartbreaking discovery about her father Hank, played by Kyle MacLachlan, and her decision to journey into the desert with The Ghoul.
Prime Video’s new trailer offers a glimpse at what awaits them in New Vegas, including flashbacks to The Ghoul’s pre-apocalypse life, a chaotic Radroach encounter, and even the unmistakable arm of a Deathclaw. It is shaping up to be a wild continuation of the series that became one of the biggest TV hits of the year.
Moten also touched on how the show builds on the lore of the games while carving out its own space. Reflecting on the timeline differences from Fallout: New Vegas, he explained:
“You know what’s really interesting is our storyline, where we are in time is, it’s a number of years after the events of [Fallout: New Vegas]. An interesting conversation Geneva [Robertson Dworet, showrunner] and I have been having is actually about how history is written in the wasteland by whoever writes it.
“And different perspectives will have a different perspective on who won and who lost. It’s a really beautiful thing.” He continued by noting how quickly the series brings this idea to the forefront.
“We see it really early on that [Lucy and the Ghoul] find out who believes themselves to be winning, and the Ghoul offering a different perspective, you know.”
With its expanding mythology, character driven storytelling, and now an official reminder that Lucy and The Ghoul are not headed for romance, Fallout Season 2 is primed to keep fans talking. The new season arrives on Prime Video on December 17.
