Clear Your Queue: Fan-Favorite Prime Video Series Drops Today With a 98% Rotten Tomatoes Score
Surprise drop: Prime Video just unleashed Fallout Season 2 a day early, vaulting into New Vegas with a scorching 98% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Prime Video just pushed the big red button again. Fallout is back, it dropped a day early, and critics are already losing their minds about it.
Season 2 is out now, and we are headed to New Vegas
Yep, Fallout Season 2 arrived ahead of schedule on Prime Video and immediately heads to New Vegas, a fan-favorite setting from the games that people have been begging to see in live action. Smart move.
The score to beat just got higher
Over on Rotten Tomatoes, the new season opened at 98% with critics, which is wild. For context, Season 1 launched with 93%. So somehow, the show about irradiated chaos just leveled up.
"A few shaky rounds" at the start, but it "goes on quite the run" to close the season.
- TheWrap's William Goodman says Season 2 has a slightly bumpy opening but finishes strong.
- Variety's Aramide Tinubu thinks it is not as structurally tight as Season 1, yet still sticky enough to keep you glued to the screen.
- USA Today's Kelly Lawler praises the show for reveling in bold visuals, big emotions, and memorable characters.
- NME's James Mottram calls it bigger and deeper than the first season.
Who is back in the wasteland
Ella Purnell returns as vault-dweller-turned-wasteland-troubleshooter Lucy MacLean, and Walton Goggins is back as The Ghoul, because of course he is. In Season 1, they were joined by Aaron Moten as Maximus, Kyle MacLachlan as Hank MacLean, Moises Arias as Norm MacLean, and Xelia Mendes-Jones as Dane.
Season 1 was not a fluke
The first season did numbers with critics and audiences and racked up 17 Primetime Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for Goggins. Amazon knew what it had.
The people steering the vault door
The series was created by Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet, who also run the show.
Quick refresher on what Fallout is actually about
Based on the long-running video game series, Fallout drops you 200 years after a nuclear apocalypse. The cushy vault dwellers finally venture back to the surface and discover a world that is complicated, darkly funny, and very violent. Survival is step one; figuring out who is exploiting whom is step two.
Bottom line: Season 2 is here early, it is in New Vegas, and critics are into it. Time to suit up.