Sunday night, HBO’s “The Last of Us” pulled within a whisker of 1 million viewers at 9pm on the main channel. HBO says another 8 million watched on HBO Max and through kaleidoscopes or something. But 991,000 went to their TVs and turned on HBO.
The show is enormously popular and growing by leaps and bounds. No one’s denying that. But star Pedro Pascal didn’t help the ratings on “Saturday Night Live” when he hosted this past Saturday. Total audience was up just slightly with 4.3 million. The prior week was 4.165 million total. Pascal’s musical guest was Coldplay, which didn’t get a sales kick of their appearance. Their latest album, “Music of the Spheres,” is number 26 on iTunes.
“SNL” is skipping next Saturday, right in the middle of ratings sweeps. They’ll be back on February 25th with Woody Harrelson and Jack White, a show I feel like I’ve already seen.
