The Last Of Us Episode 2 Broke A Massive Record For HBO

Last week, The Last of Us’ premiere scored HBO’s second largest debut for an authentic sequence since 2010. And now, Episode 2 of The Last of Us, “Infected,” has damaged one other HBO document.

“Infected” introduced in 5.7 million viewers throughout HBO and HBO Max streams, marking a 22% enhance over final week’s 4.7-million premiere. That enhance is the biggest viewers enhance from a primary episode to a second episode for an authentic drama sequence on HBO within the community’s historical past, as first reported by Variety. HBO calls it the “largest week 2 audience growth for an HBO Original drama series in the history of the network,” which speaks additional to the extensive success of The Last of Us.

Weirdly sufficient, despite the fact that HBO is often fast to capitalize on sequence success with an announcement of a second or sequel season, it has not but performed that for The Last of Us, though each signal factors to a greenlight for a Season 2.

Episode 1 of The Last of Us crossed 10 million viewers after simply two days final week and now, Variety experiences that it’s monitoring 18 million, which is sort of 4 instances its premiere night time viewers.

While ready for this week’s episode, learn our interview with sport co-creator Neil Druckmann and Joel actor Pedro Pascal about how The Last of Us was modified for TV, after which examine how there are not any plans for The Last of Us present to transcend the video games.