There will be a second season of the Fallout TV series: Amazon Prime Video has already officially confirmed it in the past few hours, just a week after the release of the first episodes on the platform. Understandably, there are no additional concrete details, but it’s safe to assume that the nitty-gritty of the creative team and cast will be confirmed, net of where the plot takes us.
The news is not too surprising: the series is off to a really good start, with excellent reviews almost everywhere from both critics and audiences. Amazon emphasizes this fact, without however going into numbers and too specific information – it just says that in the first four days the series entered the top 3 of the most watched productions on Prime Video, and it is the season that has been watched the most since the release of the first season of The Lord of the Rings: the Rings of Power, released in 2022.
The first season consists of eight episodes, all of which were released simultaneously on April 10. It is accessible to all Prime Video subscribers, with and without ads. For those who don’t know it, it is inspired by the video game series of the same name, mostly open-world action RPG, by Bethesda, which is now owned by Microsoft: it is set in a post-nuclear apocalypse future (in the specific case of the series in the ruins of Los Angeles), and tells the story of a society that lives in the Vaults, underground fallout shelters, because the surface of the planet is uninhabitable between radiation and monsters/mutant creatures of all sorts.
The television adaptation was created by Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet. The creative/production team also includes Jonathan Nolan, brother of Christopher (Oppenheimer, The Dark Knight, Inception…), who among other things directed the first three episodes. The cast revolves around Ella Purnell, who plays young adventurer Lucy MacLean, Aaron Moten, Kyle MacLachlan, Moisés Arias and Walton Goggins. At the moment, the first season of Fallout has a 94% rating on Rotten Tomatoes for about a hundred critic reviews, and an audience approval rate of 88%. According to Metacritic, the score is 73% for both critics and audiences.