‘Lovecraft Country’ Season Finale Ratings Jumped 16 Percent from Pilot Episode

HBO’s “Lovecraft Country” has been one of the fall’s most-discussed television shows, and viewers turned out in particularly high numbers for the horror title’s season finale on Sunday.Per Variety, the tenth and final episode of “Lovecraft Country” Season 1 reached an audience of 1.5 million viewers on Sunday night.

The statistic marks a season high for the show and a roughly 16 person viewership increase from the season premiere in August.

Around 881,000 viewers tuned in to the season’s final episode via linear HBO broadcast, according to Variety.

The show was also a hit on WarnerMedia’s HBO Max streaming service, where it stands as the streamer’s top-rated show.The series, which serves as a continuation of author Matt Ruff’s 2016 novel of the same name, follows Atticus Freeman (Jonathan Majors) and Letitia Lewis (Jurnee Smollett) as the former searches for his missing father in 1950s Jim Crow

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