Fallout season two update as show becomes second most-watched ever on Amazon Prime Video
30.04.2024 - 12:25
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Fallout has become Amazon Prime Video's second most-watched series of all time.
The eight-part series is based on the popular gaming series of the same name. Debuting on Thursday April 11, the show has racked up more than 65 million viewers.
Fallout is now the streamer's second most-watched series, behind 2022's The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. It's also the most-watched title among the 18-34 demographic within its first 16 days of release, Prime Video said.
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Set 200 years after the apocalypse, Fallout follows Vault Dwellers - who are used to living in luxury fallout shelters - as they are forced to return to the real world. Yellowjackets' Ella Purnell stars as Lucy, an optimistic Vault Dweller whose peaceful and idealistic nature is tested when people harm her loved ones.
Aaron Moten plays a young solider with a tragic past while Walton Goggins is The Ghoul, who survives the wasteland as a Bounty Hunter. The creators of sci-fi hit WestWorld, husband and wife duo Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, serve as executive producers on the series.
Jonathan, who also created the CBS science fiction series Person of Interest and the short-lived sci-fi series The Peripheral on Amazon Prime Video, directs all eight Fallout episodes. In an interview with Hollywood Reporter, Jonathan said of shooting the series: "It’s... the closest I’ve come to working with comedy in my career.
"We’re usually a word-perfect production — you have the script, it’s been worked on meticulously, let’s shoot what’s on the page. With comedy, you have to be more flexible. You have to embrace the chaos a little bit. We have incredible comic