Fallout Season 2 Debut Reaches Nielsen Top 10 But Trails Season 1 Pace

Fallout returned to Nielsen’s Top 10 with its Season 2 debut on Prime Video, tallying 794 million minutes viewed across nine episodes for the week of December 15–21 and ranking No. 7 on the streaming chart. The performance, while solid, did not match Season 1’s record-setting launch, in part because Season 2 is released weekly rather than all at once and Nielsen’s data does not separate seasons in its weekly tallies; about 429 million minutes came from the new Episode 1, with Season 1 totaling 2.9 billion minutes in its first five days. Prime Video did not release episode-by-episode data, and competition remained fierce from titles like Stranger Things. Deadline notes that the premiere is credible, even if it isn’t on par with Season 1.