Spoilers for the Fallout TV series.
09.04.2024 - 10:39 / videogameschronicle.com / Bethesda Softworks / Walton Goggins / Ella Purnell / Aaron Moten / Jordan Middler
Amazon‘s Fallout TV show has been renewed for a second season.
Variety reports that the show, which will debut its first season this week on April 11, has been renewed for a second. Filming for the second season will see production move to California as part of a tax incentive.
The California Film Commission announced this week that it awarded $152 million in tax incentives to multiple shows, with Fallout being the largest.
The show’s first season, which stars Ella Purnell, Walton Goggins, and Aaron Moten, was shot mostly in New York, with some additional filming taking place in Utah.
“Based on one of the greatest video game series of all time, Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have,” reads an official description of the show.
“200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind — and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird and highly violent universe waiting for them.”
The first episode of the Fallout series will be broadcast on the live-streaming platform Twitch.
On the same day as the whole season is made available on Amazon’s Prime Video subscription service, fans will be able to watch the first episode on Twitch via a number of streamers including Shroud, BrookAB and TheOnlyRyann.
Spoilers for the Fallout TV series.
As expected following the glowing reception, Amazon has renewed the Fallout TV series for a second season.
The recently released and critically acclaimed Fallout TV show on Amazon Prime has been renewed for a second season already.
Amazon Prime's Fallout TV show has been renewed for a second season.
In a surprise to no one, Amazon's Fallout TV series has been officially renewed for a second season.
Fallout has been a smash hit for both Amazon and Bethesda, renewing interest in the games itself and turning the series into a widespread cultural phenomenon. Despite all of that success, and the general expectation from fans that the show will be coming back, it hadn't actually been renewed for a second season. Until now, that is.
Fallout 4 was the best selling game across Europe last week.
Bethesda's very own Mr Handy (director and executive producer) Todd Howard has addressed the controversy surrounding the Fallout TV show's treatment of Fallout backstory, reaffirming the canonicity of Obsidian's Fallout: New Vegas and promising that Bethesda and Amazon are being "careful" to maintain consistency between the games and the TV series. Are you new to this latest lore scandal? Watch out for Fallout Season 1 spoilers ahead, then.
Amazon's Fallout TV show has — a few minor controversies aside — been a hit with fans since arriving last week; but while the show has covered plenty of the video games' post-apocalyptic basics — from Pip-Boys and Power Armour to Vaults and Vault-Tec — not everything made the cut, and its creators have now explained they deliberately held back some «iconic» stuff, including Deathclaws, to better do them justice in a potential Season 2.
If you've been narked about favourite bits of Fallout not yet appearing in Amazon Prime's unexpectedly good live-action show, hold your horses. In an interview, the showrunners have talked about holding back certain "iconic elements" to do them in a hypothetical second season right rather than cram in all the greatest hits—and also so the show didn't "seem like it was written by people who just like spent 10 seconds reading the Wikipedia page for Fallout and didn't bother to like bring in some deeper cuts."
Numerous games in the Fallout series have seen their player counts dramatically rise following the release of the Fallout TV show.
Fortnite's big collaboration with Avatar: The Last Airbender is underway, bringing with it a series of Mythics (and some pricey skins) that will let players control the elements. Firebending, Waterbending, Airbending, and Earthbending were all added earlier today, adding various new mechanics and abilities for players to mess around with, but Earthbending appears to have already been vaulted by Epic, and the reason why isn't all that clear.