Amazon has released audience data for Fallout Season 2, showing the video game adaptation is a huge Prime Video hit.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, 83 million people globally watched at least some of the season within the first 13 weeks of its December 16, 2025 release. That’s enough to put Fallout Season 2 in second place in Prime Video’s all-time returning series list, behind only Reacher Season 2. On that list it’s ahead of big budget fantasy Lord of the Rings spinoff The Rings of Power Season 2, and Reacher Season 3.
As you’d expect, the release of Season 2 gave Fallout Season 1 a shot in the arm; globally, 100 million people have watched at least a few minutes of the Fallout series. Fallout Season 2 has now joined Season 2 as two of Prime Video’s top four biggest seasons ever launched.
Amazon has offered some insight into the performance of Prime video show Fallout Season 2, while keeping viewership stats firmly locked in a vault for now.
It’s a notable achievement for Fallout Season 2, which somewhat controversially went for a weekly episode release schedule when Season 1 launched all at once. But even before Season 2 came out, Season 3 was confirmed, with production set to start this summer.
With the Fallout Season 2 finale out in the wild, we know which location Season 3 is headed towards, just as the end of Season 1 teased New Vegas for Season 2.
Warning! Spoilers for Fallout Season 2 finale follow:
The ending of Fallout Season 2 sets up Colorado as the location for Season 3, with The Ghoul, played by Walton Goggins, already on his way. So, should we expect Season 3 to kick off in Colorado? Or will there be more to the journey?
In a recent interview with IGN, co-showrunner Geneva Robertson-Dworet said: “We want to remind viewers that just because The Ghoul is heading to Colorado, of course this is the Wasteland where you always get sidetracked by bullshit every goddamn time. So how long will it take him to get there, or will he get there in the first episode of the next season? We will have to wait to find out. It may not be as linear a journey as one would hope.”
Bethesda development chief Todd Howard echoed Robertson-Dworet’s comment, adding: “Yeah, look, there’s a lot of surprises coming. We talk about it a lot. And so what I’d say is geography plays such a part into the world of Fallout, and seeing what’s there. And there’s a lot of land out there, there’s a lot of places to explore yet. It’s exciting for us to do that in games. And it’s really exciting to do it in a TV show where we can jump locations. I wouldn’t presume too much yet, I know we’re hinting at stuff, but there’s a lot of surprises to come.”
We’ve got plenty more on Fallout, including our Fallout Season 2 finale review, and an explainer on how the post-credits scene at the end of Fallout Season 2 teases something huge from the games. Oh, and here’s what that Amazon Fallout countdown turned out to be.
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