65 MILLION VIEWS?
Angela | Apr 30, 2024 |
Fallout, originally a video game and now a TV show streaming on Amazon Prime, follows “the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters that 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” two hundred years after the apocalypse.
Somehow, Amazon’s Fallout has had 65 million viewers in its first two weeks, Amazon claims – which, if accurate, means great things for Amazon Studios and the future of its new hit, Fallout. This would also be more bad news for hardcore fans of Fallout and its original lore. This success inevitably means another season will follow, which has already been announced, further disappointing the hardcore fans. Once Fallout the TV show finds more fans than Fallout the game, that original lore becomes meaningless to the writers.
The entire first season of Fallout was released on Amazon Prime on April 10, 2024. It only took 16 days, according to Amazon, to reach 65 million viewers. This viewership makes it Amazon’s second-most-watched show, with a number of viewers Amazon hasn’t seen since the debut of The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power (its most-watched show). The viewership’s largest age range was between 18-34, with the bulk of its popularity coming from France, Brazil, and the United Kingdom.
Not that anyone agrees with today’s critics; Rotten Tomatoes has given it a 93% critics rating, and a 90% audience rating. Take that with a grain of salt, though, because not that long ago, the critics gave True Detective: Night Country their highest score ever.
65 million views? Really? How is Amazon measuring this data? As of writing this, we don’t know how Amazon is counting its viewers. What I’m wondering is; why is Amazon counting its own views?
