'Fallout' Season 2, episode 1 features a famous 'Fallout 4' game location

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Ella Purnell and Walton Goggins in "Fallout" Season 2.
Ella Purnell and Walton Goggins in "Fallout" Season 2. Credit: Courtesy of Prime

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.

In Season 2, episode 1, Lucy (Ella Purnell) and Cooper (Walton Goggins) are tracking her father across the Wasteland when they wander into a crumbling outdoor cinema, where cars and audience members remain parked exactly where they were when the nuclear blast hit 200 years ago. This is the Starlight Drive-In, a location you'll visit — or try to avoid — in Fallout 4.

Production designer Howard Cummings has crafted a stunning onscreen version of the Starlight Drive-In for the series, with its retro-futurist aesthetic and towering, dilapidated movie screen. You'll see on the cinema's ravaged marquee that the very last movie to be shown here was A Man and His Dog 3, starring none other than Cooper Howard — double-billed with a Dracula movie.

In the games, the drive-in and its surrounding area is infested with mole rats and radroaches (irradiated cockroaches), Feral Ghouls (zombie versions of the mutated humans) and the odd Super Mutant — a formidable enemy yet to feature in the Fallout TV series. Luckily, no such enemies await Lucy and Coop in the episode.

In another treat for Fallout fans, the drive-in is located near the entrance to Vault 24, a vault that was actually cut from Fallout: New Vegas (meaning the TV series has a blank slate for its backstory).

And there's plenty more Easter eggs for Fallout fans to spot in the series.

Fallout Season 2 premieres Dec. 16 at 9 p.m. ET on Prime Video, with a new episode every week.

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Shannon Connellan
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Shannon Connellan is Mashable's UK Editor based in London, formerly Mashable's Australia Editor, but emotionally, she lives in the Creel House. A Tomatometer-approved critic, Shannon writes about entertainment, tech, social good, science, culture, and Australian horror.

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