AMC’s mega-hit fell sharply after its seventh season premiere last month, and has declined steadily each week since to mark the steepest ratings fall in the show’s history. In fact, Sunday’s fifth episode of the season delivered the show’s lowest viewership since season 3.
You’ll recall
TWD returned to the show’s second-biggest audience ever, delivering an incredible 17 million viewers. Fan reaction to the debut was extremely polarized, however. Some found the 90-minute return to be a gripping, emotionally effective, and artful piece of work, while others thought Negan’s gory sadism crossed a line – and vowed to quit the show.
Usually such fan proclamations don’t amount to much (
Game of Thrones fans
threaten to quit all the time, yet the HBO drama’s audience grows every year). But this time, some fans seem to really have actually tuned out – at least temporarily.
Viewership dropped 25 percent for the season’s second episode down to 12.5 million. Such a drop may have been expected somewhat given all the hype around the premiere resolving last season’s fateful circle-of-victims cliffhanger. But then the third episode dropped too (11.7 million), and so did the fourth (11.4 million) and now the fifth (11 million). Those are modest drops between episodes 2 through 5, but for TWD it still marks a low point for the show since 2013.
Still, let’s keep some perspective.
Even at a low point, The Walking Dead’s adult demo rating (a 5.1 on Sunday) is still bigger than any other show on TV, and most shows are down dramatically this fall (even football).
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'Walking Dead' Ratings Fall to Lowest in Years
The comic book has shown and done way worse. And the character way outlasted the comic book version.
at ppl thinking it's because of Glenn though. I also think negan isn't as riveting as they think he is..
