The first season of Fallout arrived at a turning point for Hollywood video game adaptations. Often far-removed from their source material, and often just a bit rubbish, they'd gained a reputation as low-quality cash grabs. Then The Last of Us came along.

In particular, thanks to music supervisor Trygge Toven, the first episode includes one hell of a needle drop: "Big Iron," Marty Robbins' iconic 1959 Western ballad, a song known to Fallout fans as associated with the game Fallout: New Vegas.

Here is the episode schedule for Fallout season 2 after its premiere was moved up a day for some reason. What does that change?

Fallout is based on a hugely successful video game series known for blending a sardonic, very dark comedic sensibility, and violence. The series is set in the game's post-apocalyptic world – an America divided into factions wrestling for control of an irradiated wasteland.

Fallout 's second season is full of Easter eggs and references to the post-apocalyptic Bethesda games it's based on, including one iconic location that's usually crawling with enemies.

Just ahead of the Season 2 premiere, the co-creator Geneva Robertson-Dworet talked about the challenge of finding fun in a nuclear apocalypse.

The most impressive thing about Fallout’s first season was how well it nailed the tone. The games are a mix of grim and goofy, a postapocalyptic story in a bleak world that’s

The actor tells Obsessed about navigating the biggest year of his career and the pleasures of returning as a 200-year-old zombie cowboy in “Fallout.”