“The Last of Us” Sees Premiere Ratings Jump

The second season of HBO’s “The Last of Us” saw an audience jump on its first season, but didn’t reach the highs of the first season’s finale.

The new season premiere delivered 5.3 million viewers over all platforms on Sunday night – including the show’s on-air premiere and replays and streaming on Max.

That’s a 13% jump on the January 2023 series premiere which landed 4.7 million in for the same night one viewership.

It’s double the premiere audience for the recent third season of “The White Lotus” (2.4 million), while “The Penguin” took approximately four days to reach the “Last of Us” S2 number.

However it’s not close to the high of 8.2 million first-night viewers for the finale, the first season built its audience with almost every new episode. It’s also behind the 7.8 million first-night viewership for the second season of “House of the Dragon”.

Viewing of the first season on Max was up 150% last week compared to the prior seven days with people rewatching or first-time watching to get ready for the second season.

The first season overall drew an average of 32 million viewers per episode over the standard 90-day full viewership count – the largest audience for an HBO and Max debut season ever.

Source: Deadline

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