‘The Last Of Us' Finale Viewership Down 30% From Premiere, With Two Catches
The Last of Us
HBO
The Last of Us season 2 ended its second season abruptly this weekend, with just seven episodes compared to season 1's nine. It was so sudden that many viewers didn't even realize it was the finale, and now we have some stats in that…do not look great.
The finale of The Last of Us season 2 saw a 30% drop in viewership compared to the season 2 premiere. It also dropped 55% from the season 1 finale.
Bad, quite bad on its face, but there are two caveats here that are worth exploring before alarms fully start going off.
Still, it's probably not great to simply hand-wave this away given what's happened with the show this season. You can still look at other reported figures, usually live viewing, for trends here.
The Last of Us season 1 almost doubled its viewership by its finale. It went up almost every week other than a big drop on Super Bowl weekend.
The Last of Us
HBO
Season 1 also has three episodes above a million live viewers and season 2 has zero, indicating an overall trend even of post-live viewership is a huge factor now. And that's even with almost double the viewers of the season 1 premiere to start with.
Viewership appears to have dropped sharply after the premiere, which was not actually Joel's death episode, rather the next one was. But views were middling all season with no big increases seen over time like season 1 had. Even if it's not 30% lower in the end, it seems possible, if not likely that it is lower than the premiere. Regardless, these trendlines are not great. Reasons for that?
I have more to say on this, but no, things have certainly not moved in a great direction in season 2 in a number of ways.
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