Season 2 of Yellowjackets had a buzzy premiere week. The debut episode has hit just about 4M viewers across linear and digital platforms, which is double the live viewership.
According to Showtime, that’s the best premiere week for the network since Dexter: New Blood in November 2021. Showtime didn’t release numbers for the second episode, which was released Friday on streaming and aired on Sunday, but the network says that the average daily conversation volume around the show continues to grow since Episode 2 hit digital platforms.
Viewership data for the second episode’s linear airing isn’t quite available yet. It’s difficult to compare this performance to last season, because similar data isn’t available.
The Season 1 finale drew 1.3M viewers, so that would indicate that the second season has had a strong debut. Season 1, which earned a 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes and received seven Emmy nominations, averaged more than 5M weekly viewers across platforms, the highest for a freshman series on the network since Billions in early 2016.
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