{"id":134433,"date":"2025-05-26T23:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T23:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/134433\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T23:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T23:17:08","slug":"3-7-million-viewers-on-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/134433\/","title":{"rendered":"3.7 Million Viewers On Platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSeason 2 of <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-last-of-us\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-last-of-us\" data-tag=\"the-last-of-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Last of Us<\/a> concluded Sunday night with an audience of 3.7 million cross-platform viewers in the U.S., per <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/hbo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hbo\" data-tag=\"hbo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HBO<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThis is significantly lower than the Season 2<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/04\/the-last-of-us-season-2-premiere-viewership-hbo-1236368374\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> premiere episode\u2019s 5.3M<\/a> viewers, but the network says it expects there to be significant growth after the Memorial Day holiday weekend. That potential for growth is evidenced by the fact that Season 2 is already amassing more average viewers over time than Season 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAccording to HBO, Season 2 is tallying\u00a0nearly 37M\u00a0global viewers per episode and growing. For context, the Season 1 premiere eventually went on to generate nearly 32M viewers in 90 days post-premiere, which is the largest audience for an HBO and Max debut season ever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Last of Us has seen an influx of viewership to the series, exceeding 90M total viewers since Season 1 ended. So far, the series has yet to surpass the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2023\/03\/the-last-of-us-season-1-finale-ratings-hbo-1235284144\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">audience record<\/a> set by the Season 1 finale, for which 8.2M tuned in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWhile there is still plenty of room for the finale to grow its audience, the viewership decline is not entirely without precedent. The Last of Us Part II was quite a bit more controversial than its predecessor, making some bold narrative choices that continue to spark debate and elicit strong opinions nearly five years after its release. Season 2 of the HBO series adapts the first half of the second game and has similarly drawn mixed reactions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBased on Naughty Dog\u2019s award-winning video game,\u00a0The Last of Us\u00a0takes place 20 years after modern civilization has been destroyed. Joel, played by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/pedro-pascal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pedro Pascal<\/a>, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie (<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/bella-ramsey\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bella-ramsey\" data-tag=\"bella-ramsey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bella Ramsey<\/a>), a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal and heartbreaking journey as they both must traverse the U.S. and depend on each other for survival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSeason 2 picks up five years after the events of the first season. Joel and Ellie are drawn into conflict with each other and a world even more dangerous and unpredictable than the one they left behind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn addition to Pascal and Ramsey, returning cast includes Gabriel Luna and Rutina Wesley. Joining Season 2 are Kaitlyn Dever, Isabela Merced, Young Mazino, Ariela Barer, Tati Gabrielle, Spencer Lord, Danny Ramirez and Jeffrey Wright. Catherine O\u2019Hara also guest stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Season 2 of The Last of Us concluded Sunday night with an audience of 3.7 million cross-platform viewers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[22132,77,2308,22131,989,59084,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-134433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-bella-ramsey","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-hbo","11":"tag-pedro-pascal","12":"tag-the-last-of-us","13":"tag-tv-ratings","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}