Faced with the immense success of the adaptation of the cult video game, the “Fallout” series was renewed for a season 2 by Prime Video.
By adapting a series of cult video games, Amazon has achieved real success with the Fallout series. The first season sits at the top of the most viewed programs of the moment on Prime Video. It didn't take much more for the streaming platform to announce, only a few days after its release on April 11, 2024, a sequel in the form of a second season. For the moment, its release date is not known, but it is a safe bet that we will have to wait until 2025 or even 2026 before discovering it on our screens. However, we will have to wait for an official date announced by Prime Video before knowing more.
The success of Fallout was as immediate as it was impressive: according to information from Amazon, the series ranked among the three most-watched titles in the history of the platform, even ahead of its blockbuster series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. It must be said that the fans were immediately there, since it is the adaptation of one of the biggest video game franchises. This 8-episode series adapts the universe of the video game license from Black Isle Studios, which was released in 1997 on PC. Since then, several other episodes have seen the light of day, some by Bethesda Softworks studios, and have enjoyed great success within the gaming community. The last one, Fallout 76, was released in 2018. This means that the series is awaited by fans.
But don't panic if you're unfamiliar with the Fallout universe: we saw the series without having played the games before, and the series remains completely accessible, even if you're a newbie. And for good reason, the plot takes place in the post-apocalyptic universe and has retained its singular tone (and its characteristic black humor) to follow the adventures of new characters, so much so that the exhibition allows you to perfectly understand the issues. Conversely, those who are familiar with video games will be able to have fun spotting the winks and references.
Let us remember, however, that the original video game takes place in a post-apocalyptic world, two hundred years after a nuclear war. Two worlds oppose each other, the inhabitants of the Vault, who took refuge in bunkers, forced to return to the surface, in what we now call the "wastelands", a particularly hostile irradiated world.
Prime Video subscribers follow the journey of three characters in particular: Lucy, an idealistic inhabitant of the Vault, returns to the surface to save her father; Maximus, a soldier in the militaristic faction of the Brotherhood of Steel, seeks to bring order; and the enigmatic Ghoul, a mysterious and ambiguous bounty hunter who has survived 200 years in this post-nuclear world.
The series Fallout brings together well-known faces from the small and big screen, such as Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets), Walton Goggins (The Bastard Eight), Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks and Aaron Moten (Emancipation). The series is partly produced. by Jonathan Nolan, to whom we owe Westworld, and created by Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner. While waiting for season 2, the first eight episodes are available in full on Prime Video.
