‘Fallout’ Season 2 Is Opening Up the Vault a Little Early

Excellent news, vaulties: Fallout season two is nearly right here. Even higher information: Amazon has determined to open up the doorways a bit sooner than anticipated.

Right now Prime Video confirmed that Fallout‘s sophomore season will now hit a day sooner than anticipated, starting streaming its first episode at 6 p.m. Pacific tomorrow, December 16. The streamer did an analogous switcheroo for Fallout‘s debut season, which actually jumped up its launch date multiple times.

Though the numerous distinction right here (aside from the unknown high quality of the primary drop; Fallout is now very recognized after it turned out to be a smash hit for Prime Video) is that, moderately than dropping each episode on the identical time, Fallout season 2 will release weekly. The brand new schedule replace doesn’t change the rollout plans for the eight-episode season, which is able to nonetheless drop episodes on Wednesdays and wrap up on February 4, 2026.

It’s a welcome bit of reports for the present, after Amazon managed to land itself in an AI-driven embarrassment for the second time in as many weeks by releasing an AI-driven recap video of season one on Prime Video. Final week viewers noticed that, apart from an AI-voiced narrator, the recap had an AI-generated script affected by basic errors, like inserting the present’s pre-apocalypse flashbacks within the Nineteen Fifties, moderately than the 2077-set retro way forward for the present and its online game supply materials. Amazon needed to rapidly and quietly pull the recap shortly after.

Fingers crossed the early launch of Fallout season two goes a bit extra easily!

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