Fallout Hits Major Milestone on Prime Video

After a successful first season, Fallout has reached a major viewership milestone on its home streaming service, Prime Video. The series began streaming in April 2024 and has quickly become one of Prime Video’s most successful series of all time.

Fallout adapts Bethesda’s long-running and popular role-playing video game series of the same name. Rather than adapt any one game specifically, the Fallout TV series is a brand-new chapter set within the world of the games. It stars Ella Purnell as Lucy, a vault-dweller who leaves the confines of Vault 33 to seek out her kidnapped father, Hank (Kyle MacLachlan). In the dystopian wasteland, viewers are also introduced to new characters like Walton Goggins’ Ghoul and Aaron Moten’s Brotherhood of Steel squire, Maximus. Throughout the episodes, different factions from Fallout lore form part of the story, such as the Enclave, the New California Republic, and Vault-Tec.

On October 2, barely six months after its debut, Prime Video announced in a Tweet that Fallout Season 1 had reached 100 million viewers worldwide. This comes after Fallout was reported to have hit 65 million viewers in its first 16 days of availability, making it the second most-watched show on Prime Video, behind The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. The viewership numbers have slowed since the hype for the series died down, but the fact Fallout has managed to entice 35 million more viewers over the past six months is still a notable achievement.

The success of Prime Video’s Fallout series was undeniable, with the series not only scoring high viewership numbers but also earning 16 Emmy Award nominations and boosting sales and interest in Bethesda’s video game franchise. Positive reviews from both fans and critics alike also cemented it firmly as one of the best video game adaptations in recent years.

Given all that, it didn’t take long for Prime Video to commission a second season of Fallout, with writing underway on the new season as of August 2024. Fans are eagerly awaiting the next installment of the Prime Video series after the finale of Fallout’s first season set up the action to take place in the iconic video game location of New Vegas in season 2.

Fallout’s success has seemingly also encouraged more video game adaptations from Prime Video. The streamer will soon release the animated anthology series Secret Level, which includes 15 stories set within the worlds of different video games including Sifu, The Outer Worlds, and Unreal Tournament. Prime Video has also ordered a live-action TV series adaptation of Sony’s popular God of War franchise, with Wheel of Time producer Rafe Judkins on board as the showrunner which will seemingly adapt the 2018 installment in the video game series for screen.

Fallout is available to stream now on Prime Video.