Data is a compilation of a Nielsen study of people who watched on pay TV with Warner Bros. Discovery’s own data on streaming
The second season of The Last of Us premiered last Sunday 13th with high expectations from fans. And the public paid to see it: the audience for the first episode reached 5.3 million viewers. The figure is 13% higher than the premiere of the first season, which was seen by more than 4.7 million people in January 2023.
The data is a compilation of a Nielsen study of people who watched on pay-TV and Warner Bros. Discovery’s own streaming data.
The studio also pointed out that audiences also revisited the first season before watching the second. The growth was 150% higher in the last seven days, compared to the week before the premiere.
In 2023, the first season of The Last of Us recorded an average of 32 million views and became the second most-watched drama series on the platform – behind only House of the Dragon. The second episode reached 5.7 million people. The last one reached its peak: over 8.2 million viewers.
The Last of Us is an American post-apocalyptic drama and thriller television series based on the eponymous video game franchise developed by Naughty Dog. It premiered on January 15, 2023 on HBO. The series follows the journey of Joel (Pedro Pascal), a smuggler tasked with escorting teenager Ellie (Bella Ramsey) through a post-apocalyptic United States in a dystopian future.
In the premiere of its pilot episode, “When You’re Lost in the Darkness”, the series reached the network’s second-highest audience in a decade with 4.7 million viewers including both the HBO television channel and the HBO Max streaming service, behind only House of the Dragon, whose audience approached 10 million. According to the company, Sunday premiere nights usually represent between 20 and 40% of the gross audience per episode. It was also revealed according to the company’s communications segment that the audience in Latin America was the largest for a series premiere and that Brazilians were responsible for more than 50% of all engagement through publications and interactions on social networks about the series after the launch of the pilot episode.
The Last of Us: see the dates for each episode of season 2
13/4: episode 1
20/4: episode 2
27/8: episode 3
04/5: episode 4
11/5: episode 5
18/5: episode 6
25/5: episode 7How do I watch all the episodes of The Last of Us?
Max has all the episodes of the first season of The Last of Us available in its catalog.
