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Fallout – Season 2, Episode 1 The Innovator

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Fallout – Season 2, Episode 1

The Innovator

Aired Dec 17, 2025

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Jack King

New York Magazine/Vulture

Dec 18

4/5

The main question overhanging the episode, and which will presumably drive much of the season, revolves around how all of the series’ players are connected to House.

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William Hughes

AV Club

Dec 17

B-

So it’s very much a table-setting premiere, walking through where all of our characters are at.

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Ross Bonaime

Collider

Jan 20

8/10

"The Innovator" does a great job of getting viewers pumped for Vegas, while also presenting both Theroux and MacLachlan as terrifying new threats to brace for.

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Matt Purslow

IGN Movies

Jan 2

8/10

I do very much like Fallout’s comedic approach to its clueless vault dwellers, but it so far feels like this was a joke best left in Season 1.

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Zinia Bandyopadhyay

Firstpost

Dec 29

3/5

...everything that you see in the first episode, only happens to be the tip of the iceberg. Every actor seems to be in solid form. And when the episode ends, you wait to know what is going to happen in the next.

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Alexandria Ingham

TV Fanatic

Dec 17

4.5/5

We got our first look at Justin Theroux’s Dr. Robert House, making it clear that he is a dangerous villain to watch out for, while we also saw just why Hank MacLean needed to get to New Vegas.

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Synopsis

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Executive Producer: Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Graham Wagner, Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy, Athena Wickham, Todd Howard, James Altman
Screenwriter: Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Graham Wagner
Network: Prime Video
Rating: TV-MA
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure
Original Language: English
Release Date: Dec 17, 2025