After an excellent start on HBO, The Last of Us (available from us on Prime Video) continues to break records. The second episode of the series, broadcast on January 23, beat out two of the channel’s flagship series: Game Of Thrones and House of the Dragon.
Expected at the turn by fans of the famous video game, the series The Last of Us – broadcast on Prime Video – highlights Joel (Pedro Pascal), a survivor who meets Ellie (Bella Ramsey), a teenager he must protect at all costs, because she is the last hope of a humanity decimated following the mutation of a parasitic fungus, Cordyceps. A strong relationship will very quickly be forged between the two protagonists. Joel sees in Ellie his missing daughter while the young teenager sees in him a father figure that she never had. If the pilot had amassed 4.7 million viewers, representing the second-best start to an HBO series in ten years, the second episode broke the record of House of the Dragon.
The Last of Us breaks a new audience record
According to HBO, the second episode of The Last of Usbroadcast on January 23, attracted 5.7 million viewers, registering an increase of 22% compared to the first episode. This difference representsIHas Strongest Second-Week Viewership Growth for an HBO Original Drama Series in Network History.” Same Game Of Thrones and its spin-off did no better! This is proof that the series adapted from the video game is a real hit for the American network. The channel also claimed that the audience figures for the first episode have now reached 18 million viewers. Without counting of course the viewings abroad.
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The Last of Us : when will the next episode of the event series be released?
The next episode of The Last of Us, which will last 80 minutes, will be released on January 29 on HBO across the Atlantic before being put online the next day in France on Prime Video. The sequel promises us some nice surprises, especially with the arrival of Bill and Frank, two solitary survivors played by Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation) and Murray Bartlett (The White Lotus, Welcome to Chippendales). For those who have never played the video game, Bill is an old acquaintance of Joe who created his own town where he lives alone to keep the infected at bay.
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