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One of Prime Video’s biggest shows is back with glowing reviews ahead of its highly anticipated new season.
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Fallout Season 2, the highly anticipated next entry in the Fallout franchise, premiered a day early on Prime Video today. The new season takes viewers to New Vegas, a location extremely popular amongst fans of the franchise.
Over on Rotten Tomatoes, critical reaction to Fallout Season 2 seems just in line with the fan anticipation. The show debuted with a whopping 98%, topping the first season’s 93% among critics.
TheWrap’s William Goodman praised the show’s second season despite “a few shaky rounds” to start, but notes that the series goes “on quite the run” to end the season. Variety’s Aramide Tinubu says Season 2 isn’t “as structurally tight” as the first season, but will still “keep viewers glued to their screens.”
USA Today’s Kelly Lawler has similar praise, noting the show “remains a show that glories in high contrast visuals, emotions and characters.” NME’s James Mottram‘s says the show is “bigger” and also goes “deeper” than the first season as well.
Alongside Ellla Purnell as Lucy MacLean and Walton Goggins as The Ghoul, Fallout Season 1 also starred Aaron Moten as Maximus, Kyle MacLachlan as Hank MacLean, Moisés Arias as Norm MacLean, and Xelia Mendes-Jones as Dane.
The first season of the show was a massive success, earning rave reviews from critics and audiences alike. The series also picked up a ton of award nominations, earning 17 primetime Emmy nominations for its first season, including Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series (Goggins).
Fallout’s TV show was created by Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet, who serve as the series showrunners as well.
“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,” the synopsis for the first season reads. “Two-hundred 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.”
