Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Mike Redmond | TV | December 17, 2025
I’m going to be upfront with you folks: I have never played the Fallout games. I’m aware of them, and even owned both Fallout 3 and 4 at various points, but never pulled the trigger. That said, when I hear that the creators of Westworld are making a show where Walton Goggins plays an undead cowboy in a retro-themed wasteland, yeah, I’m gonna take a look at that.
Fallout Season 1 was a fun trip that Amazon unceremoniously dumped all at once in April 2024. Season 2 is handling things differently. Starting with last night’s season premiere, Fallout will have a weekly release schedule taking the show all the way into the beginning of February. Will that usher forth a golden age of watercooler discourse for the apocalyptic series? I guess we’ll find out.
If you’re like me, you stumbled out of the Season 2 premiere wondering what the heck is up with Justin Theroux’s character. When we first meet him in a roughneck bar, he’s watching the TV where RobCo CEO Robert House is speaking on TV. Notably, House looks like the photo below and is still played by Rafi Silver, the same actor from Season 1:
Theroux seems to be a passionate defender, if not an outright employee, of Mr. House, who is a major character in the Fallout: New Vegas game. Season 2 will take a jaunt through that world, and Goggins’ The Ghoul clearly has a history with House as shown through flashbacks before the bomb drops.
However, there’s an addition of Theroux as a shadowy figure in the background while the major CEOs discuss blowing up the world for profit. Is he some mastermind pulling House’s strings? Nope. Theroux is Robert House. Turns out, Fallout pulled a recast. Rafi Silver’s House is presumably for the cameras while Theroux is the real deal working behind the scenes and tinkering with his mind-control device.
Did I know any of this watching the episode? Sure didn’t. I had to Google what was happening the next morning because it was driving me nuts. Both of them have mustaches, and obviously, that means something. I’m very smart.
