‘The White Lotus’ Season 3 Finale Outpaced Season 2 in Single-Day Viewership by 44%

Season 3 of “The White Lotus” wrapped on Sunday April 6 and while critics and audiences had mixed feelings about the finale, one thing was clear: it was an unassailable ratings hit. The Max/HBO show tops the Samba TV Weekly Wrap streaming Top 10 for the seventh consecutive week after 1.6 million households tuned in for the season finale on Sunday. 

That single-day viewership outpaced the Season 2 finale by 44% and more than doubled the viewership of the first season’s finale. 

And we may not have seen the last of “The White Lotus” – any stragglers who missed the final episode or are still catching up will be counted in next week’s tally, giving the show a shot at another week at the top.

In other news, our spring season “Big Three” of chart-toppers are now down to just two. “1923” retains its grip on second place as that series also wrapped up on Sunday, with a two-part finale on Paramount+. We say goodbye to the third leg of this triangle, Amazon Prime Video’s “Reacher,” which fell off the chart completely after wrapping its third season on March 27.

That exit means there’s a new entry in the Top 3 this week, and it’s “The Life List.” The Netflix rom-com moves up two spots from where it sat last week. In fourth, we have a new entry: “Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer.” The docuseries is the latest in Netflix’s long line of true crime programming.

The Max series “The Pitt” comes in fifth, with the ER drama moving up three spots this week as it charges towards its April 10 finale. “One of Them Days,” the buddy comedy starring Keke Palmer and SZA, debuts in sixth place this week after landing on Netflix. It’s followed by another Netflix entry, “The Residence,” which slides three spots this week.

For viewers who aren’t content with the hospital drama of “The Pitt,” Netflix now offers “Pulse.” All 10 episodes of the medical drama were added to the streamer’s library on April 3, helping the show debut in eighth place. “Geostorm,” a 2017 box office flop that was recently added to Netflix’s library, finds itself in ninth this week. 

Finally, while “Reacher” failed to stay in our Top 10 with no new episodes, the only other series to crack our Top 3 in recent weeks, “Adolescence,” has managed at least one more week on the chart, despite all episodes being released in bulk. Netflix added all four episodes of its limited series “Adolescence” on March 13. In the weeks since, the series has moved all over the chart, debuting seventh, rising to third, and then dropping to sixth. This week, it lands in tenth, in what could be its last placement before dropping out of the chart.

Over on linear, CBS’s “Tracker” took the week off, allowing the show’s singing competitors to grab the top spots. This week “American Idol” holds the number one spot, along with the third entry as well. Sandwiched in between is “The Voice.” 

We have a scripted sandwich after that, with “FBI” finding itself in fifth, wedged between “Chicago Med” (fourth) and “Chicago Fire” (sixth).

The CBS special “An Evening with Elton John and Brandi Carlisle” is seventh. “Wheel of Fortune,” meanwhile, holds spots eight and ten, and “Saturday Night Live” makes the chart in ninth this week as audiences likely tuned in to see what the sketch show would do with “Liberation Day.”

The Wrap Report provides an exclusive first look at the most watched movies and TV series from the past week across both streaming and linear television sourced from viewership trends collected from Samba TV’s panel of more than 3 million households, balanced to the U.S. Census.

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