Fallout Season 2 Ratings Fall Well Below Season 1 as Prime Video Ditches Binge Strategy

Fallout Season 2 ratings are down compared to the explosive debut of Season 1 – but there’s a bully crushed for that.

Information astir however Bethesda and Amazon’s adaptation is faring during its 2nd play comes from precocious released Nielsen streaming stats (via The Hollywood Reporter). The numbers amusement Fallout drafting 794 cardinal minutes watched betwixt the week of December 15 – 21, 2025, with its premiere episode, The Innovator, arriving December 16. For comparison, Fallout Season 1 premiered to 2.9 cardinal minutes watched erstwhile it made its mode to Prime Video successful April 2024.

It’s the benignant of downward inclination that galore whitethorn presume has Amazon shaking successful its boots, but it’s acold from the afloat picture. There’s 1 large constituent to consider: each 8 episodes of Season 1 premiered connected the aforesaid day, portion Season 2 published conscionable 1 occurrence astatine release. In different words, Prime Video subscribers had a batch of caller contented to descend their teeth into successful 2024, truthful 794 cardinal minutes watched for conscionable 1 caller occurrence to relationship for isn’t truthful bad.

In fact, Nielsen reports Fallout Season 2 Episode 1 accounted for 54% of the show’s ticker clip during the week of December 15 (Season 1 episodes accounted for the rest), truthful it’s casual to ideate that fig getting an further boost if much caller episodes had dropped that aforesaid day. Even considering the play merchandise strategy, Fallout inactive managed to beryllium the lone Prime Video amusement to onshore successful Nielsen’s Top 10 Overall streaming ratings for minutes watched betwixt December 15 – 21, coming successful astatine fig seven. That puts it good beneath Stranger Things astatine the fig 1 spot with 2.38 cardinal minutes watched, but supra Grey’s Anatomy, which is placed astatine 10 with 642 cardinal minutes watched.

Stats for Fallout Season 2 Episodes 2 done 5 person yet to beryllium published, with the amusement inactive precise overmuch successful the mediate of rolling retired caller episodes successful its post-apocalyptic follow-up communicative each Wednesday. Episode 5, The Wrangler, premiered January 14, with 3 much acceptable to travel January 21, January 28, and February 4.

It’s casual to look astatine the Fallout Season 2 ratings and presume the worst, but for now, it doesn’t look similar the video crippled amusement is going anywhere. For more, you tin cheque retired IGN’s reviews for Episodes 2, 3, 4, and 5. You tin besides work astir Prime Video’s precocious announced Fallout Shelter world contention series.

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