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| Fallout Season 2 continues its run on Prime Video as one of the platform’s most-watched returning series. |
By Jon Scarr
Fallout Season 2 is landing as one of Prime Video’s biggest returning shows, even though Amazon still isn’t sharing full viewership totals.
In new comments shared with Deadline, Amazon says Season 2 currently ranks as the sixth most-watched TV season of all time on Prime Video. That puts it behind The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Seasons 1 and 2, Reacher Seasons 2 and 3, and Fallout Season 1.
Prime Video claims Fallout Season 2 is already in its all-time top six
Amazon also says Fallout Season 2 is the top-performing season on Prime Video since Reacher Season 3, which debuted in February 2025. If you’re trying to place that in context, it’s basically Amazon signalling that Season 2 is performing at the top end of what the service usually sees for returning series.
Looking at returning seasons only, Amazon says Fallout Season 2 ranks No. 4, again trailing Reacher and The Rings of Power.
More than half the audience is outside the U.S.
Amazon also shared a few details about where viewers are coming from, and it backs up what you’d expect from a global game adaptation.
- 53% of the audience so far is international
- Strongest markets include the UK, Germany, and Brazil
- Season 2 is in Prime Video’s Top 5 TV seasons ever among men aged 18–34
Amazon MGM Studios head of global TV Peter Friedlander said the company is happy with how the season is being received, noting it ranks among Prime Video’s most-watched seasons and is rating higher with critics than Season 1.
“More than half of the season’s audience to-date has come from outside the U.S.”
Amazon also pointed to Rotten Tomatoes, where Season 2 is currently rated higher than Season 1.
The weekly release makes comparisons messy
Season 1 launched as a binge drop in 2024. Season 2 switched to a weekly rollout, and that changes how third-party tracking looks week to week.
Fallout returned to the Nielsen streaming charts during Season 2’s debut week with 794 million minutes viewed in the U.S. for the week of December 15 to 21. The catch is that total includes viewing across all available episodes, not just the new ones.
For comparison, Season 1 generated 2.9 billion minutes viewed across all eight episodes in its first five days. That difference looks dramatic on paper, but it’s not an apples-to-apples comparison when one season drops in full and the other is pacing its episodes out over weeks.
Amazon still isn’t sharing full viewership numbers
Even with these rankings, Amazon is still not providing full viewership totals for Season 2. Sources cited by Deadline suggest the company may be waiting until all episodes are available before it releases anything more detailed, if it does at all.
Amazon did previously share a Season 1 milestone, saying the first season reached 65 million viewers within 16 days after release in 2024.
Fallout Season 3 momentum is building
Alongside the success of Season 2, Prime Video is also continuing to expand the Fallout brand in other directions. Earlier this month, Amazon confirmed a new unscripted series titled Fallout Shelter, a reality competition show inspired by the Fallout universe. The series moves the franchise beyond traditional television and into a format built around survival, decision-making, and long-term strategy.
With Fallout Season 2 continuing to perform well and new projects like Fallout Shelter now in development, the series’ expansion across television formats shows how central the franchise has become to Prime Video’s long-term plans.
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