‘The Last of Us’ closed its first season with another triumph for HBO. With an audience of 8.2 million people for Episode 9, lThe series broke its own audience record, a significant feat, considering that the finale premiered during the 2023 Oscars broadcast on ABC. According to Variety, the Nielsen data and Warner Bros. Discovery’s own data represent those who tuned in to the Sunday night broadcast on the HBO and HBO Max cable channel.
The average per episode increases week by week
WBD also shared that the first six episodes of the series now average 30.4 million viewers, including ongoing viewership beyond initial airings, with Episode 1 alone approaching 40 million viewers in the weeks following its debut. In Europe and Latin America, ‘The Last of Us’ has become the most watched series in the history of HBO Max. This It is not the first time that this one has outdone itself while competing with a major awards ceremony. Episode 4, titled “Please Hold My Hand”, drew 7.5 million viewers when it aired at the same time as the Grammys, which was a series high at the time.
When ‘The Last of Us’ came out in January, it followed ‘House of the Dragon’ to become second most-watched HBO premiere in over a decade with 4.7 million viewers. Episode 2 marked the largest increase in HBO history between the first and second episodes of a series with 5.7 million viewers. The show then drew 6.4 million viewers with Episode 3. On Monday, WBD also released new data on viewership for episodes 5-7 that were previously unavailable.
Episode 5 was seen by 11.6 million, but the data has a trick because it was released two days before. Episodes 6 and 7 were viewed by 7.8 and 7.7 million people, respectively. Although ‘The Last of Us’ has not yet managed to surpass ‘La casa del Dragon’, the average week by week does improve that of dragons, with a continuous audience of 29 million viewers, slightly less than TLOU’s 30. Starting with 4.7 million viewers and ending with 8.2M, TLOU’s viewership skyrocketed 75% during Season 1, while LCDD started 9.99 million with Episode 1, and achieved 9.3 million with its end.