No duh, Fallout has been renewed for a season 2
Amazon's biggest new show since Lords Of The Rings is obviously coming back for another season
Aux News Fallout
In news practically as inevitable as humanity’s innate impulse to annihilate itself in a burst of cleansing nuclear fire, Amazon has confirmed today that it’s renewing Fallout for a second season of post-apocalyptic Prime Video TV. This is not a shock, in so far as the series (executive produced by Westworld’s Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, and show-run by Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet) has a) built up a pretty healthy buzz around itself in the week or so since it came out, and b)—we write as the show’s reviewer here at The A.V. Club—is way, way better than an TV adaptation of the popular video game franchise could have been, frequently laugh-out-loud funny and the right kind of genuinely shocking.
Per Deadline, Amazon handed down the renewal notice on Thursday afternoon, noting that the series ranked “among the service’s top three most-watched titles ever and the most-watched season globally since Rings of Power.” The show stars Ella Purnell, Walton Goggins, and Aaron Moten as three survivors making their way across a post-nuclear California landscape, engaging in a sort of extended relay race to see who can keep hold of Michael Emerson’s severed head.
Our review of the show’s finale will be up tomorrow, but suffice it to say that, while the series answered a couple of its biggest questions—and provided the frankly bizarre imagery of Kyle MacLachlan stomping through the Wasteland in a big-ass suit of metal armor—in the finale, it also left plenty of things for itself to reveal. The episode also heavily hints that the show will be headed in its second season to “New Vegas,” the setting of the cult favorite spin-off game of the same name—which, spoilers, we guess, has an entire gang populated with gangsters who are also Elvis impersonators, so that should be kind of fun to see.
Nolan and Joy issued a statement congratulation his collaborators today, saying, “Praise be to our insanely brilliant showrunners, Geneva [Robertson-Dworet] and Graham [Wagner], to our kick-ass cast, to Todd and James and all the legends at Bethesda, and to Jen, Vernon and the amazing team at Amazon for their incredible support of this show. We can’t wait to blow up the world all over again.”
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Phew. I did not take this as a given. Thing looked expensive and other than the vault set I wasn’t sure what sets they could re-use next season. Glad people liked it.
A redacted message from a friend on the production side, this is from March 8th: They put everything is storage. But I haven’t heard anything definitive about a S2. I think they are waitiing to see how this season fare in viewship/awards etc.Is there is a s2 I wouldn’t be surprised if they moved the filming base from NY to California or New Mexico.So at least they kept some stuff ready.
Oh, cool! thanks for the insider info.
I’m definitely planning on watching this show because it looks great, but why the fuck did Amazon choose to release this all at once? Sure people are talking about it now, but I doubt the conversation will last another week. And even ignoring it from a business perspective, I immediately was less interested when I found out it came out all at once. I don’t think ‘prestige’ TV will ever be released on the binge models. The best shows of the past decade have pretty much all released weekly.
I wonder about that in general, but Amazon isn’t another streamer since they run on Prime subscriptions and not just/directly on Prime Video. Sports seems to be the only appointment TV left.
True, but I still don’t really get it. I feel like any sustained conversation would be good. HBO is still doing weekly releases, but they’ve kind of run out of their great shows (Curb just ended, the last truly ‘essential’ show they had was Succession and Barry which ended nearly a year ago). I’d agree, I feel like television just feels less momentous nowadays. Every show is trying to be The Sopranos or Breaking Bad without actually being in the contexts those shows came out in. And sure, its probably/definitely meaningless bullshit to call television less fun now. But it bums me out a little bit to find out a TV show has fully played its hand, instead of keeping a couple cards for later.
What the fuck are you on about my man!! You actually want to wait a week between episodes of a season again?
I would absolutely prefer weekly releases where, in the following week, I’m thinking about the show and the direction it’s headed, to getting an entire season drop where I watch it all in one sitting and immediately forget about it for a year.There’s a fine line between what I’m trying to say and ‘kids these days’ nonsense, but I feel like this is another example of how attention spans have gone down the shitter. A week really isn’t that long to wait. People don’t want television anymore, they want a movie nonsensically segmented into separate parts that they can then watch over the course of a day before having to wait 18 months for the next movie drop.
Why are you watching 8 episodes in one sitting dude…? Your lack of discipline sounds more like the issue. We’re talking about loving an episode so much you decide to do 2 of them not 8 hours of consecutive television…
I don’t actually do that, I’m just using it for the example. That is part of why I dislike the binge model, because it incentivizes that kind of shit. It takes the hard work of a group of people and turns it into a content vending machine. I seriously doubt shows like Breaking Bad or The Wire would be as esteemed as they are now if they had just all been released at once. Same reason why I doubt people will be talking about Stranger Things a couple years after the final season airs.
“Breaking Bad or The Wire would be as esteemed as they are now if they had just all been released at once.”Breaking Bad owes its continued existence to Netflix’s binge-drops. Each season was dropped on Netflix a few weeks before the new season started, and THAT is how the show built its audience.And The Wire was on the verge of cancelation during its entire run. In fact, it was canceled and unconcerned twice by hbo.
Yeah I agree with all your points. It was great to binge this one but a few days later I noticed that I remember very little of it (and I was not multitasking) and that I actually binged it to “get it out of the way” and… and because binge is the only metric that matters to streamers to consider their show a success.But it is better with a weekly schedule, where every week we renew the interest on the material. Imagine, for a moment, having all the episodes of RuPaul’s Drag Race in a season released at the same time…
100%. I always think of Survivor, too – it would be wild if we just immediately knew who got voted out and who won. Would suck the fun out of the whole thing. And sure, reality TV is different from narrative TV. But not enough, in my opinion, to change things too much.
Not to point out the obvious, but your examples are a) a show that aired on commercial cable, where the business model required weekly episodes for ad revenue and b) a show that predates not only streaming services, but HDTV. FX and HBO couldn’t have done the binge model if they’d wanted to.
If you prefer to watch one episode a week, nobody is stopping you. The all-at-once model lets you have that AND the bingers can blast through it if they want to. I don’t believe attention spans are impacted anywhere near they way you are portraying. I prefer the binge model since it allows me to watch a show when I want to rather than when the content provider says I have to. And if anything, I watch LESS content now than before.
Very true. But that is kind of my point – if they had come out nowadays and were a Netflix content drop, they probably wouldn’t have been as popular as they were, and honestly probably would have been cancelled way sooner. But someone could also make the argument that a show like Breaking Bad wouldn’t have been made in the first place in the streaming era, so its not a perfect example. Just trying to show that some of the best shows of all time benefited from being a product of cable, and the switch to the binge model could prevent us from recognizing these types of shows in the future.As for your second point, also totally true. But there is also nobody stopping people who prefer binging to waiting a few months until all of the episodes of Succession are out so they can binge it. There is no actual objectively better release model, and its all personal preference. I just prefer weekly releases.
Fair enough. And Breaking Bad barely got made in its own era. AMC took a shot on it after everyone else passed.As for your second counterpoint, that’s what I do with The Boys and the other Amazon shows that release weekly.
There is nothing stopping you from taking as much time as you want between episodes.
Subscribers may want to be able to binge it, but from a marketing perspective I agree it makes more sense to build some anticipation and word of mouth by stretching it out a bit. Granted if the current approach was costing them money I’m sure they would go back to weekly releases.
Amazon makes its bones with AWS everything else is like, pizza money. They probably just like having a media library and IPs it can control for the future, but they don’t care about ratings.
I’m in between jobs and I’ve been loving these binge drops. What benefit beyond it fitting into your lifestyle does it provide?
I mean, that same question applies to binge drops. Its just preference, and I prefer weekly releases.
Maybe next season will have weekly drops. I’ve read a lot of chatter about how this deserved HBO-levels of prestige, including not dumping it all at once. Give viewers a chance to absorb what they just watched, and some time to talk about it with each other before the next episode!
“Amazon’s biggest new show since Lords Of The Rings”Lords of the Rings? Really?
Whatever you opinion on the quality of Rings, it got a lot of eyeballs on it. So yeah, it was big.
But was it called “Lords of the Rings”?
Yes. The full title is The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
But was it called “LordS of the Rings”, the title given in the article and called out by the OP?
I’m only going to post this onces, but it’s for about half the commenters on this thread.
Apparently a ton of people watched the first few episodes, but only 38% ended up finishing it (I was one of them, since I thought it was pretty good). That show’s renewal was basically because it was the most expensive TV show ever made and Amazon couldn’t afford the publicity of having that be for nothing.
I’m sorry you thought it was pretty good. That makes me sad.
You clearly didn’t watch the Amazon series. In it Sauron is joined by his nerdy younger brother Chad.
played by your mom
I’m sick of these woke casting decisions. Go woke, go broke.
how to tell when someone whole life is based on propaganda starts with someone that uses the word woke… plus your about as clever as a dead skunk…
I think your irony detector is broken
i don’t know you… i’ve seen that comment daily on one thing or another non ironic but more importantly why even use it ironically since it just gives it more publicity…
This time they even spend some money in the show! Not to mention script! Woo!
I wanted to love Rings of Power so badly. But it just felt too clean, too staged, and too unfocused with too many story lines, to really immerse me in the world. Meanwhile Fallout has absolutely blown me away with all the details and Easter eggs, the grit, the layering of trash and decay. Three to four main story lines is perfect to keep us wanting to check in with the others. The producers and directors must have played through at least Fallout 3 and 4. Even my wife, who hates the fact that I seem to have no intentions of quitting video games as my primary hobby, is really enjoying the show. So psyched!
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I’m glad that a series about how a giant evil corporation with too much power ruins the world is going to get a second season thanks to a giant evil corporation with too much power that is ruining the world.
I’m sure the irony of that is lost on Jeff Bezos.
But he can afford to pay some people to find it for him.
one thing that has been commented often in the past decade was that Bezos loved the Expanse because of the most dystopian stuff was the stuff of dreams to him.