Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "FALLOUT SEASON 2 HAS HIGHER ROTTEN TOMATOES SCORE THAN SEASON 1"

Episode Date: December 21, 2025

Linktree: ⁠https://linktr.ee/Analytic⁠Join The Normandy For Additional Bonus Audio And Visual Content For All Things Nme+! Join Here: ⁠https://ow.ly/msoH50WCu0K⁠ In this segment of Notorious Mass Effect, host Analytic Dreamz breaks down Fallout Season 2 on Amazon Prime Video, which premiered early on December 17, 2025, shifting to the iconic New Vegas setting from the 2010 game and featuring the series' signature sniper tower dinosaur. Analytic Dreamz highlights its record-breaking Rotten Tomatoes scores: 98% critics (later adjusted to 96%), 96% audience (now 95%), topping all live-action video game adaptation Season 2s and tying the highest audience score overall, surpassing The Last of Us and others for dual-season averages.Season 1 earned 17 Emmy nominations including Best Drama, with wins for costumes and prosthetics. Todd Howard confirms the show is canon, set in 2296, influencing Fallout 5 post-2035. Bethesda capitalizes with Fallout Shelter's first "Viva New Vegas" Season Pass (TV tie-in quests, dwellers), Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition, Fallout 76 updates, and Prime Gaming promotions.Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

It is time to dive into the Fallout IP because of course they have set a precedent along with other video game IPs such as Sonic, such as Mario, coming to the movie or the TV landscape and notoriously affecting the masses to the point where a lot of executives are saying to themselves, why haven't we been transferring the video game stories into the movie aspect? And that's because most of them was garbage. No, I mean, I got to tell it eight more than 92. Because, you know, when you look at it in totality, safe to say, we just recently got into a video game, the movie, as far as it resonating with the masses, and of course, Fallout, Sonic, Mario, and you look at other IPs such as The Last of Us,

you can see how video game is taking over movie theaters and actually successfully putting people in the seats to watch these movies. But of course, it's a TV show. But I'm just talking about video games to the big screen or to your favorite digital provider, whether it's Amazon, Disney Plus, et cetera. Because, of course, when it comes to Minecraft, you already know how people are going crazy for Chicken Jockey. It's safe to say when it comes to Fallout Season 2.

Not only did they already have a successful season with Season 1, but Season 2 currently is standing with a whopping 95% of, you know, audience score and 96% critic score as of right now on Rotten Tomatoes. So the main thing I was going to get into of course if you're watching a video version or Analytic Dreams video on Spotify, just know

that there's no spoilers. I'm basically just playing a trailer as we talk about season two. So season two just premiered December 17th and of course this specific season is going to tie in a lot to fallout New Vegas because it's

new Vegas and it's time into the Fallout New Vegas 2010 video game now when you look at how critically acclaimed season one is for people to say season two blows it out of the water as far as quality then it should make every fallout fan excited especially diving into the overall tv show as season one already had tremendous success and safe to say the production budget for that season was 153 million so safe to say season two had a lot more because of course Season 1 drove significant value to the point where season 1 has 65 million viewers in the first 16 days and later surpassed 100 million, making it the second most watch prime video title ever. And it's only behind rings of power.

And that's the source for that is Nilsson because it had 2.9 billion minutes viewed in the first five days. So there's a lot of fans as far as from the Fallout or just the general TV connoisseur landscape really enjoying this. TV show which also reflects in video game land so for the fallout fans i hate to treat you like rock star fans but just know you're supporting this to the point where you probably won't get in a new fallout game in a foreseeable future because when you look at xbox specifically fallout 76 is currently the fourth most play game on xbox and then interestingly enough which i do have some tidbits on this but interestingly enough fallout shelter is on one of the that is one of the top trending games on steam specifically and i think it's because if i can follow if i can

find it let me see yeah it's because there's a new ten dollar season pass system which is the first ever in fallout shelter so a lot of people revisit revisiting that specific game on steam but like i said on xbox fallout 76 is a fourth most play game on xbox and then you look at it from a video game aspect in as far as all the installments fallout four have 25 plus million units shipped in an overall 750 plus million as far as initial growth i think when it comes to the video game landscape to tv and movies they're finally doing it correctly to the point where i'm going out on the limb and i will say we are in the golden age of video game movie and tv shows and then of course You know, I don't know what gives it away, but a lot of people look at me and they say to themselves,

Are you a massive fake fan? And I just think to myself, what in the world? Like, honestly, if I was to, like, you know, if I was to look at y'all specifically, you know, as far as on the video version, analytic dreams video on Spotify, to see the video along with the audio, I do not understand why people just deem me as a massive fake fan. Shepard. No, I just can't get it. You know, I can't call it. So anyways, with that being said, um and completely irrelevant news uh well not irrelevant but you know saw tangent mass effect is currently it already got greenlit for uh development at amazon it's currently being developed and of course it's a brand new original story set after the original trilogy as far as post mass

effect three and it's not retelling commander sheper's arc looking at the success of fallout as far as season one and season two say to say i am thoroughly excited for this mass effect TV show to come to amazon it seems like amazon could do no wrong and especially with fallout having a lot of moving parts i'm not going to say it has more moving parts in mass effect because that'll be a stretch but but they're having more games in a franchise safe to say that in itself could say you have more moving parts but you know mass effect trilogy is a classic it already has a lot of moving parts y'all get the point right come on now shepherd no i'll just let them know so anyways um when it comes to

Mass Effect the TV series, safe to say, I think it's going to be just as high quality as this Fallout TV show. Now, I could be put in a cart before the horse or whatever the Western saying is, but that's just my high hopes. So getting back into Fallout, you know, I don't want to take too much time away from Fallout talk. So looking at Season 2, I think I already talk about the, okay, I don't think I did. So episode one just came out December 16th. And of course, if you just want to keep up with season 2, just know of subsequent episodes,

meaning that it's weekly on Wednesdays. Episode two is coming out December 24th, and of course the final episode is coming out February 4th, 2026. So they're definitely elongating pulse. You guys. They're definitely elongating the season as the season has eight episodes total

shifting from season one's binge release to weekly drops. So now Amazon's looked at the data. They basically say, we want weekly conversation about this phenomenal TV show so they're not giving it to you all at once like they did with season season one so getting back in fallout as far as what you should know as as far as the video game landscape because you know

it's very interesting how a lot of people are tv connoisseurs but they're not really into the games and so it's uh i'm not saying it's a bad thing it's just interesting and i like how it helps out each medium it helps out the video game medium as i just talked about with uh fallout 76 being a fourth most play game on xbox and of course fallout shelter being one of the most top trending games on on steam not like top engaged with the top trending so anyways looking at it from a video game aspect if you're a tv connoisseur you don't even know how to even access these particular games so safe to say that's why your boy dreams dreams is here so so so safe to say as far as a platform breakdown um fallout three new

Vegas 4, 76, and Fallout shelters on Xbox series XS and 1. As far as PS5 and PS4, I believe it only has Fallout 4. Now, maybe I may be mistaken about that, but as far as Fallout 3

and New Vegas, I think it was removed from PS Plus, so I think it would be best to get on Xbox, and then of course PC, which I think is the best place, because it has all the games. It has Fallout 1 through 4 tactics, New Vegas, Shelter, and 76. When you look at the Nintendo Switch 2 somehow they have the fault or shelter available to them but they may be

getting Fallout 4 because like I said that's the most successful game out of all the installments in the franchise Fallout 4 had a whopping 750 million as far as initial gross so with Fallout 4 being the most popular video game and the seasons not even they have I don't even think they focus on Fallout 4 yet so they're working a way up to having an iconic fallout storyline and it's reminding me of and once again i'm not trying to jump you know i'm not trying to jump the gun but it is reminding me of when walk at walking dead had a fantastic show and then they made the um the video game uh by telltel i believe yeah with clementine yeah that's what it's reminding me of as far as the high quality video game story being just as high quality

as a tv show which is very hard to do if you ask any fallout fan because it's really really make your own story in fallout which you know similar to mass effect which you're going back to why i'm so hype about the mass effect tv show coming out so that being said it's not really too much again too with fallout i think when you look at it in totality a lot of people enjoy nostalgia man let's just say fallout has all type of nostalgia in it as if new vgas is seemingly to you know certain fallout connoisseurs their favorite then season two is going to be the perfect season for them to get into this show. I do believe you should still watch season one, but of course, you've used one to skip around. Hey, I'm not going to stop you. You know, if you want to jump around,

then that's up to you, right? So getting back into the rest of the, um, continue, well, getting back into the continuation of season two, currently, it is dominating both critics and audience ratings like we already talked about, uh, before on Rotten Tomatoes. So now, if you look at Bethesda aggressively monetizing the renewed franchise spotlight, through season passes, re-releases, and cross-platform campaigns. It's safe to say that they already have acknowledged the TV show. And now they're trying to get people who only watch TV to try out some of their video games. Because guess what?

You know, the core IP came from somewhere. So now, when you look at Fallout 5, that is likely post-2035. Ladies and gentlemen. Shepard, just look at the state of gaming. Like, what is going on? I hate to break that news to you. abruptly but just hey you're not going to get fallout five anytime soon i think i said it early in this segment y'all are supporting this tv show so much to the point where not only is it helping

out the ratings for amazon but it's also helping out the past fallout game so you're not going to get fallout five anytime soon and of course you can say the same to me you know as far as mass effect you know but hey you know please don't bring it up you guys see that's the problem it hurts my heart every time i think about how the next mass effect is it's never going to come out and you know i'm just a We eat a little lad. And it still made that come out in my lifetime. Shepherd. I'm just keeping it eight more than 92.

So anyways, with that being said, I think that's essentially it. You know, don't forget, it is subsequent episodes. So it means like weekly on Wednesdays. And episode two is set to come out December 24th and the finale, which is episode eight. It's set to come out February 4th. So if you just want to catch up on season one, let's just say you still have a lot of time to do so. So with that been said, click my link, sure in my bio, let me know one of my social medias. What do you think about Fallout currently having the best show on Amazon? And also,

aside from Mass Effect, could you know, we already know that. What video game story would you like to be adapted by Amazon?