Justin Theroux has always been the not-so-secret wild card on any show he appears on. While he’s nabbed his fair share of leading roles, his strength is arguably when he shows up as a chaotic extra element in a season of TV, like he recently did as a bizarre hitman on Poker Face, or even his not-quite-recovering addict brother character on Netflix’s Running Point. But 2025 Guest Star Of The Year Justin Theroux reaches his nadir on Prime Video’s Fallout, where he hits his true calling: playing a deranged Walt Disney/Howard Hughes type character named Robert House.
In fact, and spoilers past this point, the show wastes no time introducing “The Man Who Knew” and his company, RobCo. Taking place in the flashback portion of the series, we get to see how his company is causing riots. Meanwhile, in a bar, a man with a pencil thin mustache is smoking a cigarette and watching the incensed workers complain about him, while someone else seems to be pretending to be him on TV, played by Rafi Silver — who also played the character in Season 1. Is this a weird bit of meta-casting? Is Silver’s House doing a whole public stand-in thing for the real House, a la [checks historical records] Padme Amidala’s handmaidens in The Phantom Menace?
Regardless, after goading the workers further, they follow him outside and he makes a proposition: let him put a little device on the back of their necks, and he’ll give them 31 million dollars. The men don’t agree, and go to attack him — with the quicker than expected House attaching the device to the back of one of their necks. Turns out it’s some sort of control device, and it’s not too much of a spoiler to say this is a major driving force behind a lot of the season to come. However, in the faraway times of this flashback, the device hasn’t quite been perfected. And while House is able to force one of the workers to murder his compatriots, it also causes the boxed worker’s head to explode. But hey, it’s just another day of market research for Robert House, right?
Robert House is a key figure for fans of the Bethesda video games on which Prime Video’s Fallout is based. But in the games, he’s not a man walking around, he’s mostly seen on computer monitors, ruling the location of New Vegas in a new, digital form. Given we already know that the action of Fallout Season 2 is headed to New Vegas, it’s fair to say we’ll see some riff on that here. But you don’t just cast Justin Theroux to confine him to a green and black monitor screen.
Nope, you cast Theroux to provide the perfect business tycoon who bristles not with ideas, but danger. To return to the original point mentioned above, Theroux has more often been cast as violent killers and/or deranged weirdos. But he has classic leading man good looks, and his long face and pitch black hair make him the perfect stand-in for a 1950s retro-future inventor. Heck, while the House of the video games is more influenced by famous recluse Howard Hughes, in the show they’re clearly styling him after vintage Walt Disney. And Theroux nails the look, while leaning more towards a coiled sense of glee at violence rather than a new animation innovation. He’s like a snake in mouse clothing, ready to pounce at any moment — as he does in this opening scene.
It’s surprising that nobody has ever cast Theroux in a role like this yet, given how much he dominates it — but he does. And having seen the first six episodes, there are plenty of twists and turns to come with House… Like everyone else on the show, he isn’t what he seems. But like Walt Disney, he’s here to welcome you to the world of tomorrow, even if that world is the post-apocalypse of Fallout.
Fallout Season 2 Premiere Dates And Episode Guide:
New episodes of Fallout Season 2 premiere Wednesdays on Prime Video at 3am ET / 12am PT, with the exception of the season premiere, which debuts early on Tuesday, December 16 at 9pm ET / 6pm PT.
Here’s the full list of episodes in Fallout Season 2 with premiere dates:
- Tuesday, December 16, 2025: Fallout, Season 2, Episode 1
- Wednesday, December 24, 2025: Fallout, Season 2, Episode 2
- Wednesday, December 31, 2025: Fallout, Season 2, Episode 3
- Wednesday, January 7, 2026: Fallout, Season 2, Episode 4
- Wednesday, January 14, 2026: Fallout, Season 2, Episode 5
- Wednesday, January 21, 2026: Fallout, Season 2, Episode 6
- Wednesday, January 28, 2026: Fallout, Season 2, Episode 7
- Wednesday, February 4, 2026: Fallout, Season 2, Episode 8 *Season Finale*
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