
As reported by Deadline , saw a 40% viewership jump during the week its season finale got released. Here’s how it fared against other shows.
According to new data released by Nielsen, registered 483 million minutes viewed in the U.S. between December 22 and 28.
This, as , represented a 40% increase against the week prior, and landed the series in 6th place on Nielsen’s Top 10 Originals chart. The series had also placed ninth on the same chart during the December 8–14 week, with 360 million minutes viewed.

Unsurprisingly, Stranger Things topped Nielsen’s Originals and Overall charts with 6,887 million minutes viewed, as audiences binge-watched the series amid the release of chapters five, six, and seven of its final season on December 25 and 26.
Back to , the show was Apple TV’s single entry in the Top 10, besting shows from competing streaming services including , , The Beast in Me, and .
Interestingly, excluding Dave Chappelle’s The Unstoppable comedy special, reached 483 million minutes viewed with just nine episodes, putting it alongside series with far larger episode libraries or longer runtimes, such as Stranger Things (41 episodes) and Emily in Paris (50). (To be fair, placed third with just 10 episodes, two of which marked the show’s return for its second season.)
Despite Nielsen’s data only covering the U.S., ’ performance aligns with Apple’s recent claim that the series had become Apple TV’s most watched show ever .
Still, Apple’s statement didn’t include actual numbers, so the real scale of that success remains difficult to assess.
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