Following last week’s impressive debut, The Last of Us has jumped 22% for a record-breaking second-week viewership of 5.7M viewers on Sunday night.
The videogame adaptation got off to a strong start, drawing HBO’s second largest figures for a debut since 2010 with 4.7 million across linear and HBO Max, which has grown to 18 million viewers since that debut.
It’s even better news in the second week, where the Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey headlined series jumped 22% for a 5.7M Sunday night audience. The performance marks the biggest week 2 audience growth for an HBO Original drama series in the history of the network.
We called The Last of Us “a game-changer for how video game adaptations are handled in the future”, with “Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey delivering the greatest performances ever based on video game characters” in our gushing review, which you can read here.
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The Last of Us story takes place twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed. Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse the U.S. and depend on each other for survival.
The Last of Us airs weekly on HBO in the US and on Sky and NOW in the UK.
Source – Deadline
