It Wasn't For Nothing! The Last of Us' Penultimate Episode Tops 8.1 Million

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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.