There has been some debate about whether Fallout season 2 has gained or lost viewership, or lost significantly, even. While we know some third-party estimates, it is a bit apples-and-oranges: season 1 was dropped as a binge, but then season 2, which includes some views of season 1 rewatched as well.
Now, Amazon itself is chiming in, and is laying Fallout season 2’s performance out in every way they can without giving out actual numbers. Hm.
- Amazon says Fallout season 2 is the best-performing season on Prime Video since Reacher season 3 in February of 2025.
- Fallout season 2 is the #6 most-viewed season of any Amazon show ever, behind seasons 1 and 2 of The Rings of Power, seasons 2 and 3 of Reacher and Fallout season 1.
- Fallout is the #4 most-viewed returning season of a show, besides two seasons of Reacher and one of Rings of Power.
These number-less reveals are a lot different than what happened with season 1, where Amazon boasted that Fallout hit 65 million views in 16 days, then 100 million viewers by October 2024. So does that make Fallout season 2 performance…bad?
No, I still think it’s good. Amazon is splitting the difference by not giving out numbers that would obviously be lower than the ones above, while still giving out enough information to show that it remains one of the service’s top three shows ever. And there are no indications, from third party or otherwise, it suffered some sort of enormous drop like The Rings of Power supposedly did in season 2.
I am fully immersed in the TV and gaming space for my job here, and I will say I have heard significantly less chatter about the series this time around, which is a bit counterintuitive, as it seemed like it would be more likely to be discussed week-to-week. But the general sense is that the show’s quality remains great. Approaching the end of the season, it remains at a 97% critic score and 96% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, even with treading into dangerous New Vegas territory, a part of Fallout that has a legion of often nitpicky game fans.
Fallout season 3 has already been renewed and should film this summer, hopefully for a late 2027 release. At this point, I’m wondering if it outlives the wildly expensive Rings of Power, as Amazon’s original five-season commitment may not pan out if viewership continues to drop. And at least in terms of reviews, Fallout is the most well-liked major series on the service.
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