Fallout is a bigger Prime Video hit than The Boys and Reacher, but it's not the most-watched Amazon TV show ever (2024)

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Interestingly, Amazon doesn't claim “Fallout” as its biggest ever debut. The company says that the series reached 65 million worldwide viewers in its first 16 days of availability, coming second to “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” though a 16-day statistic for Rings of Power” was not provided.

It's official: Fallout is a hit for Prime Video. The streamer revealed that the television adaptation topped 65 million viewers in first 16 days, making it the second most-watched title ever on the service and the biggest since Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.

"Fallout," which premiered April 10, was the most-watched show across any streaming platform last month and quickly became the most successful program to date for Amazon Prime Video, according to Nielsen's The Gauge report.

The Apollo 11 moon landing is generally considered to have been the most watched event in American television history, having garnered an estimated viewership of between 125 and 150 million viewers.

That's rad: with 65 million viewers, the Fallout show is Amazon's biggest hit since The Rings of Power. A lot of people irradiated their eyeballs by watching Prime TV's Fallout series.

There's also quite a bit of kissing (same & opposite sex) a sex scene, and some moaning. All in all, the Fallout is a great Drama, that's best left for older teens or maybe the sensitive ones can wait.

Fallout was a commercial success, selling 600,000 copies worldwide.

Extreme Violence & Gore

Fallout is no stranger to mature themes, so it was banned in many countries because it depicted extreme violence and gore. It is even more bloody, gory, and violent, especially if you use the in-game slow-motion feature.

Will there be a Fallout 5? ›

In an interview with IGN, Todd Howard confirmed that Fallout 5 will be Bethesda's next major project after The Elder Scrolls 6. "Yes, Elder Scrolls 6 is in pre-production and, you know, we're going to be doing Fallout 5 after that, so our slate's pretty full going forward for a while" Howard told the publication.

While exploring, you will frequently find skeletons, dead bodies, petrified corpses, decomposing bodies and heads on stakes with some blood left over. You may find these bodies with weapons and other things they may have died from.

The series received a second season renewal in April, just one week after the first season debuted, and it sounds like work on the next batch of episodes is moving along at a steady pace, as showrunners Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner told The Hollywood Reporter they are keen to get it released quickly.

Contrary to popular belief, The Fallout is not actually based on a true story.

In fact, Prime Video's three biggest original series in the past two-plus years, as measured by Nielsen — Reacher, The Wheel of Time and The Boys (season two) — are based on books. Shows like Bosch, which ended its seven-season run on Prime in 2021, and Jack Ryan also have best-sellers as their source material.

Outer Range, Fallout, and Mr. & Mrs. Smith are just a few of the things you should be watching on Amazon Prime Video this week. While Netflix is busy pumping out more series than any one person could watch (probably), some of the best shows are on Amazon Prime Video.