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
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.”