Amazon is releasing Fallout Season 1 for free on YouTube ahead of next week’s Season 2 finale.
Fallout Season 1 episodes are dropping on the Prime Video YouTube channel daily, with Episode 1, called The End, and Episode 2, called The Target, live now.
It’s a welcome addition for non-Amazon Prime subscribers and a move that will surely build even more interest in the show, with Season 2, Episode 8 set for broadcast next week.
As someone who is up to date with the Fallout show, it was interesting to put Season 1, Episode 1 on YouTube for a few minutes, given recent comments from Cooper Howard / The Ghoul actor Walton Goggins.
Warning! Spoilers for Fallout follow:
In a recent interview, Goggins teased that Episode 8 will finally resolve one of the burning questions fans have had since Fallout hit Prime video back in 2024: how did his pre-war character, Cooper Howard, come to be at that birthday party with his daughter, right as the bombs fell?
"I mean, the whole first seven minutes of this experience in Season 1 was about [Cooper being] a guy at a birthday party,” Goggins told Entertainment Weekly. “Well, how did he get to that birthday party? What happened? It's all leading somewhere."
Rewatching Episode 1, I also picked up on something that passed me by before: during the party we hear a radio news bulletin that tells us the White House still has no comment on the whereabouts of the U.S. president.
Why is that of interest now? This week’s episode revealed the President of the United States, played by Clancy Brown, in a Fallout franchise first (he’s been talked about in the video games before, briefly, but never turned up in the flesh until now). In Fallout lore, ‘The Last President of the United States’ is working for The Enclave, the faction fans suspect to be pulling the strings in the TV show’s overarching storyline. He ditches the White House and relocates to Control Station Enclave off of the coast of San Francisco (we see this in Fallout 2). Based on how things go in Season 2, Episode 7, Cooper Howard is about to find out just how dastardly the U.S. president is for himself.
If you are up to date, it's worth checking out the Fallout co-showrunner's tease about Season 2, Episode 8, which sounds like it will have a significant impact on The Ghoul, Lucy, and Maximus. After that, be sure to check out IGN’s Fallout Season 2, Episode 7 review.
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