{"id":246564,"date":"2026-01-19T17:35:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T17:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/246564\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T17:35:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T17:35:06","slug":"fallout-season-2s-weekly-drops-may-not-be-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/246564\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Fallout’ Season 2’s Weekly Drops May Not Be Working"},"content":{"rendered":"

The second season of\u00a0Fallout<\/a>\u00a0came out in December, with a big switchup being its change from dropping all episodes at once to a weekly schedule<\/a>. Prime Video was explicit about this change ahead of the show\u2019s return, but two-thirds through the season, that gambit doesn\u2019t appear to be paying off.<\/p>\n

Per Nielsen ratings obtained by the Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, the season premiere on December 16 had 794 million total minutes of watch time during the week of December 15-21, significantly down from season one\u2019s 2.9 billion minutes<\/a> when that dropped back in 2024. As THR notes, that falloff could be due to only one episode of season two dropping on premiere day. Other Prime Video shows like Mighty Nein\u00a0and\u00a0Reacher opened with two or three episodes.<\/p>\n

When the first season of\u00a0Fallout\u00a0arrived, several viewers (us included<\/a>) felt the show could\u2019ve warranted a weekly schedule, a sentiment that seems to have reached Prime Video\u2019s ears. Viewership numbers may not currently back up that thought, but it doesn\u2019t mean the show\u2019s experiment was a complete wash; it just might need to premiere seasons with more episodes or hit a sweet spot with two episodes a week. Some shows benefit from all at once, others weekly, and there\u2019s always room for experimentation.<\/p>\n

The good news is, we already know we\u2019re getting a third season of Fallout,\u00a0so this isn\u2019t currently a death knell for the series. We\u2019ll see what the big takeaway from the season\u2019s one-per-week cadence is when the finale drops on February 4.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The second season of\u00a0Fallout\u00a0came out in December, with a big switchup being its change from dropping all episodes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,25590,85,46,11098,411],"class_list":["post-246564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-fallout","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-prime-video","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}