Rankings: HBO’s The Idol Viewers Falls Shy of Euphoria’s Private Sequence Premiere

HBO’s The Idol may stand to have additional followers.

The oft-lurid new drama co-created by Euphoria‘s Sam Levinson debuted on Sunday evening time to 913,000 full viewers all through Max and linear telecasts, with Recreation 2 of the NBA Finals on ABC offering first price rivals.

For comparability’s sake, HBO’s Worthwhile Time in March 2022 debuted to 901,000 full viewers, The White Lotus in July 2021 first opened its doorways to 944,000 guests, and Levinson’s Euphoria in June 2019 drew 1.1 million lookie-loos with its private assortment premiere.

Then as soon as extra… The Remaining of Us once more in January launched with 4.7 million viewers, whereas the Recreation of Thrones prequel assortment House of the Dragon‘s first episode remaining August shattered HBO information by drawing virtually 10 million of us to its opening evening time.

On this streaming day and age, HBO assortment generally generate nevertheless a fraction of their full viewers on premiere evening time. Truly, the reveals talked about above grew their preliminary viewers by parts of 6, 7 and even 10 over the course of a season.

The Idol arrived on HBO amid an avalanche of damaging press about behind-the-scenes turmoil involving Levinson and star The Weeknd aka Abel Tesfaye, who co-created the gathering with Levinson and Reza Fahim.

TVLine readers gave the premiere episode a median grade of “D”; study our full recap, seize your self a bathe, and weigh in.