{"id":134763,"date":"2025-05-27T02:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T02:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/134763\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T02:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T02:17:07","slug":"the-last-of-us-finale-reaches-3-7-million-viewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/134763\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Last of Us&#8217; Finale Reaches 3.7 Million Viewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/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>\u201d Season 2 came to a close Sunday night, pulling in 3.7 million viewers across all platforms. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThat marks a 30% drop from the<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/tv\/news\/the-last-of-us-season-2-ratings-premiere-viewers-1236369005\/\"> Season 2 premiere<\/a>, which reached 5.3 million viewers back in April. However, Season 2 is overall outperforming Season 1, tallying roughly 37 million viewers per episode to date, up from the 32 million average viewers reached by Season 1 after 90 days of viewing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/pedro-pascal\/\" id=\"auto-tag_pedro-pascal\" data-tag=\"pedro-pascal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pedro Pascal<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/bella-ramsey\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bella-ramsey\" data-tag=\"bella-ramsey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bella Ramsey<\/a> lead the cast of \u201cThe Last of Us,\u201d which was an instant hit upon its release back in January of 2023. The show had the second-most watched HBO premiere in a decade, and then followed it up with the largest-ever increase between a series\u2019 first and second episode, with a jump of 5.7 million viewers. A series high of 8.2 million viewers came with the Season 1 closer. After 90 days of its release, \u201cThe Last of Us\u201d Season 1 finale amassed 32 million viewers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe logline for \u201cThe Last of Us\u201d Season 2 reads, \u201cFive 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe show was created and written by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, the latter of whom created the highly influential video game upon which the show is based. They both executive produce alongside Carolyn Strauss, Jacqueline Lesko, Cecil O\u2019Connor, Asad Qizilbash, Carter Swan and Evan Wells. Halley Gross serves as writer and co-executive producer. Sony Pictures Television produces with PlayStation Productions, Word Games, Mighty Mint and Naughty Dog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Last of Us\u201d Season 2 came to a close Sunday night, pulling in 3.7 million viewers across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[22132,77,22131,989,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-134763","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-pedro-pascal","11":"tag-the-last-of-us","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114577397900859905","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134763","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=134763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}