HBO has just released the second episode of the first season of The Last of Us and apparently the popularity of this production has only grown to a beastly level in just one week. At least that’s what the latest audience figures recorded by the platform suggest.
With the arrival of the first chapter, we witnessed how the production set an audience record, achieving the second best numbers in the last decade. Being surpassed only by the premiere of House of the Dragon.
It is therefore, today, the second best series in the recent history of HBO. But a surprising twist has just emerged. Since now it turns out that the inertia of its public has broken the traditional inertia of decreasing as the days progress.
And it is that the new audience figures for The Last of Us have arrived after the premiere of its second chapter and it turns out that its popularity has only increased.
HBO confirms that The Last Us increased its audience to impose another new brand
According to a report from adweek, the second episode of The Last of Us, “Infected”, has also broken some important records. As it drew 5.7 million viewers across HBO and linear broadcasts on Sunday night in the United States.
This figure translates into an increase of 22% with respect to the amount of audience that the premiere of the series gathered. Traditionally, what happens is that the number of interested people stays the same or gradually decreases.
But here we are looking at the highest second-week viewership growth for an HBO original drama series in the channel’s history. A record that other more representative and famous productions on this platform could not even obtain.
Additionally, the series premiere episode now has a total of 18 million viewers, nearly four times the original opening night audience.
In other words, the popularity of The Last of Us on HBO has been increasing gradually over the days and now it is poised to become one of the most successful series in terms of audience in the history of the firm. .
The series is based on the legendary game released in 2013 and this first season will consist of 9 episodes.
