Fallout is a bigger Prime Video hit than The Boys and Reacher, but it’s not the most-watched Amazon TV show ever

Dropping impressively big numbers on Prime Video

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It’s official:Fallouthas set the streaming world on fire. The hit series, which only began streaming on April 10, has dropped some seriously impressive numbers in its first two weeks on Prime Video. So much so, in fact, that’s now the second most popularAmazonshow of all time.

Confirmed in an X/Twitter post, Amazon’sFalloutTV showhas been streamed by 65 million people since it debuted. To put that into context, other wildly successful Prime Video shows, includingThe Boys,Invincible, andReacher, didn’t pull in as many audience members after their first seasons were released. Simply put:Fallouthas enjoyed an explosively epic start to life on Amazon’s primary streaming service.

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As ahem rad as those viewing figures are,Falloutcan’t claim a place in the history books as the most popularPrime Videoshow ever made. That honor belongs toThe Rings of Power, Amazon’s non-canonicalLord of the Ringsprequel series, whose first season was seen by 100 million people worldwide after its September 2022 release.

There is one small caveat toThe Rings of Power’s popularity among audiences, though. The aforementioned viewership figure for the high fantasy series' debut season was accumulated between September and December, aka the three-month period after its initial launch. The fact thatFallouthas amassed around 66% of that 100 million figure in just over two weeks, then, suggests it might have the legs to eventually overhaul its Prime Video sibling at the most-watched Amazon TV summit.

Even if it doesn’t,Fallouthas confirmed its position as one of thebest Prime Video showsin many people’s eyes. And, withFalloutseason 2greenlit just days after its predecessor’s critically and commercially acclaimed arrival, more adventures across the Wasteland await us down the road.

More than an okey-dokey kind of Prime Video show

So, what’s behindFalloutbecoming one of the most-streamed Amazon TV Originals of all time?

There are a number of factors, including its authenticity to the source material, pleasing blend of multiple genres, its likeable cast, innovative and hard-working crew, and its accessibility to anyone who hasn’t played any of Bethesda’s post-apocalyptic game series, which Prime Video’s TV show is also set in.

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Oh, and let’s not forget the fact that it fleshes out and expands uponFallout’s universe in wholly original ways – a prime example being thatFalloutincludes “the one thing we could never do"in said games, according to Bethesda boss Todd Howard.

All of that – and a whole lot more that I could get into but won’t because I’ll be here all day – positionsFalloutas a truly epic videogame adaptation. Indeed, inmy review ofFalloutseason 1, I called it “an ambitious, prestige-flavored adaptation that brings one of gaming’s most iconic series to life with a highly satisfying blend of source material devotion and narrative originality”.

Here’s hoping season 2,which director/executive producer Jonathan Nolan teased some “really cool plans” forin my exclusive chat with him, will be as big of a blast as its forebear is on one of the world’sbest streaming services.

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