Just a week after its premiere, Prime Video has officially renewed Fallout for a second season, the streaming platform announced today.
“Jonah, Lisa, Geneva, and Graham have captivated the world with this ground-breaking, wild ride of a show. The bar was high for lovers of this iconic video game and so far we seem to have exceeded their expectations, while bringing in millions of new fans to the franchise,” Amazon MGM Studios head Jennifer Salke said in a statement.
“The cast led by Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, Walton Goggins, and Kyle MacLachlan have knocked it out of the park,” the statement continues. “We’d like to thank Jonah and Lisa and our friends at Bethesda for bringing the show to us, as well as Geneva and Graham for coming aboard as showrunners. We are thrilled to announce season two after only one week out and take viewers even farther into the surreal world of Fallout.”
Set 219 years after the bombs dropped and turned the world into a radiated wasteland, the Fallout TV show follows Lucy MacLean, a young woman who grew up living in a fallout bunker, who goes to the surface to look for her missing father. The series also follows other characters, including Goggins’ Ghoul character and Maximus, a member of the Brotherhood of Steel.
The Fallout TV series arrived on Prime Video on April 10 when the streaming service dropped all eight episodes from the first season concurrently. Following its debut, the series has been met with overwhelmingly positive feedback from fans and critics — particularly those praising Goggins for his portrayal of the gunslinging Ghoul Cooper Howard.
Though the series is not a direct adaptation of any Fallout video games, executive producer Jonathan Nolan has described the Fallout TV show as “a non-interactive version” of Fallout 5.
There had been speculation that Fallout would return for a second season; days before the series premiered, the production team was awarded a $25 million tax credit if the series opted to relocate filming from New York State to California.
With the show’s success, IGN recently caught up with Bethesda Game Studios executive Todd Howard and executive producer and director Jonathan Nolan for a wide-ranging, spoiler-filled interview. In it, Nolan alluded to his plans for the future of Fallout.
“You want to have a plan, but you also want to be flexible enough and adaptable enough that you’re not locked into that…” he said. “You try to make a terrific season and if you’re lucky enough to go again, you make a follow-up, you leave enough material and you have enough of a master plan from the beginning that you know what the next step would be. We have been talking for some time now about the next steps for Fallout, and we’re very excited about it.”
In our review of the first season of the Fallout TV series, which we awarded a 9 out of 10, my colleague Matt Purslow wrote: “A bright and funny apocalypse filled with dark punchlines and bursts of ultra-violence, Fallout is among the best video game adaptations ever made.”
For more on Fallout, check out our video, where we dive into the lore of Bethesda’s beloved post-apocalyptic franchise. Or, if you have already watched the entire first season, check out our ending explainer.
Taylor is a Reporter at IGN. You can follow her on Twitter @TayNixster.
