‘The Last of Us’: Chapter 4 resists the Grammys and reaches a new audience record

“The Last of Us” continues its ringing effect by adding more audiences to each chapter aired on HBO, and so on Awards season is making things difficult for him. The fourth episode of Ellie and Joel’s journey managed to tune in with 7.5 million viewers, one million more than the previous one, ‘A long long time,’ which starred Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett.

The premiere of the last of the aired episodes competed directly with the Grammy Awards gala, which was held on Sunday night in the same time slot as “Please Don’t Let go of My Hand.” The American musical ceremony attracted 12.4 million spectators, making it the most successful edition in recent years. However, Cordyceps falls more than decentlymanaging to add more and more viewers, something that other HBO Max original productions such as “La Casa del Dragón” have not achieved.

Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin’s series is being broadcast at a time when the headlines and televisions are monopolized by award ceremonies and the occasional big game. During the broadcast of its first season, “The Last of Us” shared space, or will, with three major events that bring Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey’s apocalypse into trouble: The Grammys, the Super Bowl Finals and the 94th Academy Awards.

For the Grammys there was no change and it went very well, but with whom ‘The Last of Us’ seems not to want to risk it is with the match of the Philadelphia Eagles against the Kansas Chiefs, including the stellar participation in Rihanna’s mean time . Due to the magnitude of the event, which becomes the most watched broadcast in the North American country every year, the fifth episode of ‘The Last of Us’ It will arrive almost two days before the rest of the chapters. Balls aside, whether or not HBO will repeat this same comedy with the Oscars and its season finale remains to be confirmed.

Finally Melanie Lynskey

This chapter was awaited, and eagerly. Finally we meet the character of Melanie Lynskey. A different villain than the typical ones seen in this kind of dystopia. The ‘Don’t Look Up’ actress plays Kathleen, Joel and Ellie’s first major enemy. With her sweet voice characterizing her own, Lynskey lands in “The Last of Us” to put the foundation stone of the conflicts that will be seen throughout the series: human against human, the Cordyceps is fought off from time to time and alone.

2023 is on track to be the year Lynskey reiterates the Critics’ Choice Award she won in 2022 for her other hit, Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson’s series ‘Yellowjackets’. Thus Lynskey is postulated as one of the actresses with the greatest future.