HBO’s ‘The Idol’ Audience Falls Shy of Sam Levinson’s ‘Euphoria’ Debut

HBO’s The Idol may stand to have extra followers.

The oft-lurid new drama co-created by Euphoria‘s Sam Levinson debuted on Sunday evening to 913,000 whole viewers throughout Max and linear telecasts, with Game 2 of the NBA Finals on ABC providing respectable competitors.

For comparability’s sake, HBO’s Winning Time in March 2022 debuted to 901,000 whole viewers, The White Lotus in July 2021 first opened its doorways to 944,000 company, and Levinson’s Euphoria in June 2019 drew 1.1 million lookie-loos with its personal collection premiere.

Then once more… The Last of Us again in January launched with 4.7 million viewers, whereas the Game of Thrones prequel collection House of the Dragon‘s first episode final August shattered HBO data by drawing almost 10 million folks to its opening evening.

In this streaming day and age, HBO collection usually generate however a fraction of their whole viewers on premiere evening. In reality, the exhibits talked about above grew their preliminary viewers by components of 6, 7 and even 10 over the course of a season.

The Idol arrived on HBO amid an avalanche of detrimental press about behind-the-scenes turmoil involving Levinson and star The Weeknd aka Abel Tesfaye, who co-created the collection with Levinson and Reza Fahim.

TVLine readers gave the premiere episode a median grade of “D”; learn our full recap, seize your self a bathe, and weigh in.