‘The Last Of Us’ Season 2 Trailer Sets Viewership Record For HBO & Max Originals
deadline.comMomentum for the second season of HBO‘s The Last of Us is clearly building. Per Warner Bros. Discovery, the trailer released Saturday as part of the show’s SXSW panel amassed 158M global views across platforms in just the first three days, which is a record for HBO and Max originals.
The new trailer outperformed previous trailers and teasers for The Last of Us by a margin of at least 160%, the company said.
To date, episodes of Season 1 are averaging around 32M cross-platform viewers in the U.S. That’s about four times the same-day audience of the Season 1 finale, which set a record for same-day viewership with 8.2M across platforms.
It’s still among HBO’s biggest shows in recent years, which sets the stage nicely for the debut of Season 2 next month. Per the logline, in Season 2, five years after the events of the first season, Joel and Ellie’s collective past catches up to them, drawing them into conflict with each other and a world even more dangerous and unpredictable than the one they left behind.
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