We always got the impression HBO’s The Last of Us was going to be big, but we never expected it to be quite this big. The penultimate episode of season one, which aired this past Sunday night, topped 8.1 million viewers, making it the biggest instalment thus far. To put things into perspective, that’s a gigantic 74 per cent increase on the viewership of the premiere, meaning interest has been increasing with each subsequent week.
The series previously peaked with Episode 4’s incredible 7.4 million viewers, although due to some disruption with the Super Bowl, data wasn’t available for Episode 5 through 7. Nevertheless, we’d expect this coming week’s finale, Episode 9, to set a new record – even if it will be forced to compete against the Oscars.
Regardless, the entire PS Productions team must be absolutely thrilled with the series’ performance, as it’s also had a profound impact on the series’ video game sales, which have been slowly rising up the charts. This month will see the release of The Last of Us: Part I on PC, which is sure to be a major launch as well.
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I can see it doing 10 million for the last episode.no one cares about the Oscars.
@Americansamurai1 I trust Jada and Will haven’t been invited this year so there shouldn’t be any drama to steal away viewers.
Talent always wins baby
@ItsBritneyB_tch
The only reason anybody was talking about the Oscars last year was the slap. If the producers were smart they would find another way to get people talking instead of it being yet another year of bigwigs kissing the ass of other bigwigs for 3 hours.
@ItsBritneyB_tch princess pinocchio Meghan markle and harry are supposed to be giving an award. WOW! Less I say about those 2 idiots the better
@QualityGeezer their south Park episode was amazing lol
@PegasusActual93 yes, I thought it was a stunt at first but I don’t believe that anymore. Will’s career is in tatters and Chris didn’t hold back in his recent Netflix special.
I generally don’t like these awards ceremonies. Just an excuse for Hollywood luvvies to pat themselves on the back for playing dress up, whilst being paid millions for the privilege. There are ordinary people (who actually help others) who are more deserving of recognition.
@QualityGeezer oh god, not those two buffoons. I’m surprised they have the time or the energy after their worldwide privacy tour 😂
@ItsBritneyB_tch Need Ricky Gervais to set things right. Take your little trophy and piss off...
Man, so much hatred in the comment section...
On topic, good for such a brilliant show. It deserves all the success in the world.
@Americansamurai1 I've seen that episode, was hilarious lol. I only know of their antics thru South Park.
Now I can go watch it u rather watch the whole thing in one go.
@KidBoruto I love the bit when they stick pictures of her magazine covers on Kyles front door and you see them peering out of their window trying to see what kind of reaction it will get. Then when Kyle doesn’t react they get mad and feel victimised 🤣
Also, their private jet slowly pulling-up outside their new home, where they want to live a normal life in privacy 🤣
The entire episode was comedy gold.
That's it? As big as all the talk I would have thought it was more.
It's no failure, but for some of that perspective you're looking at Grey's Anatomy averaged 15.7 million viewers a week just last season in tracking only America.
@PegasusActual93 What we need is for Tom Hanks to punch Mark Wahlberg during the show.
That'd up the drama one more notch.
@Americansamurai1 I'd rather surrender my sanity to cordyceps than sit through The Oscars
my only complaint about this show is there have barely been any infected. They fought a couple clickers in ep 2 and that was it. The world was destroyed by them and everyone needs to live in walled cities but there arent really any i fected out in the world. I get you cant have them figjhtng off bloaters every chapter but cmon. This might have well just been a world wide sickness if there arent going to be any runners or clickers or bloaters anywhere loose in thr world. Will we see joel take down a bloater in the sewer next week? Doubt it.
@Andee Especially when the Oscars has trashed poorly on animation in the past.
I'm assuming you're an Adventure Time fan judging by your Finn the Human picture.
@Adaminoregon @PegasusActual93
I also think that there is the fact they are currently in the ar** end of nowhere, where no one actually lived before the outbreak that can easily explain the lack of an infected threat.
I do wish the series was the longest TV primetime drama in history and just had a bunch more episodes to really make the journey feel as long as it should (and the initial outbreak before the time jumps too) and then they could have added in some more localised threats on top of making it feel immersively epic, but they can't, unfortunately, and the Human survival drama is always going to take precedence.
It's not like you can't imagine the threats in more densely populated areas that they are avoiding, either, you don't have to see everything on a TV show to know it's there.
It's a really good show, and I don't think it suffers from lack of repetitive game like infected avoidance strategy sections, and killing action
I think it's good, very good In parts but it's massively overhyped by a lot of media.
@KidBoruto oh definitely — they're almost like an automatic Disney/Pixar award for being Disney/Pixar. It's like "well, we showed how diverse we are by giving that weird Japanese film the award two decades ago, what more do you want from us?" How about acknowledging Cartoon Saloon or Laika once in a while?
And yes, big fan! Although I still haven't got around to that HBO miniseries that came out a few years ago...
@ItsBritneyB_tch Will is banned from the Oscars, I believe.
@Andee Exactly! I still need to watch My Father's Dragon on Netflix, so don't feel bad about not watching Adventure Time's HBO specials.
I do highly recommend them though, each one's only ~45 minutes. You could watch all four in 3 hours.
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