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The Last of Us HBO The Last of Us season 2 ended its second season abruptly this weekend, with just seven episodes compared to season 1’s nine. It was so sudden that many viewers didn’t even realize it was the finale, and now we have some stats in that…do not look great. The finale of The Last of Us season 2 saw a 30% drop in viewership compared to the season 2 premiere. It also dropped 55% from the season 1 finale. Bad, quite bad on its face, but there are two caveats here that are worth exploring before alarms fully start going off. Memorial Day Weekend – The holiday had a lot of people heading out of town, and many may not have been around Sunday night to watch ahead of the Monday off work and school. Long Term – In the end, The Last of Us season 2 has in fact been averaging more viewers overall than season 1, once long-tail views are added over time. So, this should lower those percentage gaps in time, if not erase them. Still, it’s probably not great to simply hand-wave this away given what’s happened with the show this season. You can still look at other reported figures, usually live viewing, for trends here. The Last of Us season 1 almost doubled its viewership by its finale. It went up almost every week other than a big drop on Super Bowl weekend. The Last of Us HBO Season 1 also has three episodes above a million live viewers and season 2 has zero, indicating an overall trend even of post-live viewership is a huge factor now. And that’s even with almost double the viewers of the season 1 premiere to start with. Viewership appears to have dropped sharply after the premiere,…

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Filed under: News - @ May 27, 2025 4:29 pm