Fallout will premiere on Prime Video a day early!

This week, we'll finally be able to check out Fallout, the Prime Video sci-fi series from Jonathan Nolan (Westworld) which is based on the beloved, long-running video game franchise. The Fallout games have been carving out a weird little place in the hearts of fans since all the way back in 1997, when the original computer game shocked people with its blend of quirky humor and outrageous violence set amidst a 1940s nostalgia-driven post-apocalyptic wasteland. Now, we'll get a whole new sort of Fallout on television.

With any luck, it'll capture that same blend of humor and bleakness that made the games such enduring titles. You'll be able to watch for yourself and decide soon...very soon, in fact. Today, Prime Video announced that it was moving up the release date for Fallout from April 11, to April 10 at 6:00 p.m. PT. You can watch Fallout a day early! Walton Goggins, the Ghoul himself, announced the news:

Fallout will drop a day early, cue rejoicing and general confusion

While it's obviously exciting that Fallout will be coming out a little earlier than planned, I have to admit that I'm a little confused by this move. It's not the first time that a streamer has pulled a quick change on the release date for a show, bumping it up a day or two; Disney+ did it with Ahsoka, HBO Max did it back when the first Dune movie dropped, and on and on. It's great for fans who are eager to watch, but I can't help wondering about the why of it all — especially because it's pretty likely that this sort of seemingly spontaneous date change was actually planned well ahead of time. Is the hype drummed up by an extra bit of launch week excitement worth the confusion it causes for people who don't know when to tune in?

Then again, maybe that's just me being a bit cynical. Like Vault-Tec, I'm sure Amazon and other streamers have perfectly innocuous reasons for doing these things.

Jokes and grousing aside, it's an exciting week for fans of Fallout! Nolan has been a fan of the video games for years; it's going to be great to see what he does with this series.

"Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have," reads the official description for the series. "Two-hundred years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters 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."

Fallout premieres April 10 at 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET on Prime Video.

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