White Lotus & Righteous Gemstones Smash Viewership Records!

HBO’s Sunday lineup featuring The White Lotus and The Righteous Gemstones has been a significant success, with both shows achieving important viewership milestones.

The latest episode of Mike White’s series The White Lotus attracted a season-high of 3.4 million viewers across various platforms in the U.S. this Sunday, as reported by HBO. This season, the show is averaging an impressive 12.2 million viewers per episode, including those who watch later, marking a 78% increase from last season’s numbers during the same period.

Furthermore, the third season of The White Lotus has maintained a strong viewership, averaging 15.5 million viewers. Recently, it ranked as the top program on the streaming service Max, both in the U.S. and globally.

Meanwhile, The Righteous Gemstones, a comedy series by Danny McBride, has seen its most successful season debut to date. The premiere of its fourth season drew 919,000 viewers across various platforms in the U.S., a nearly 30% increase over the premiere of the third season, which averaged 5.5 million viewers.

The fourth season of The Righteous Gemstones opened with an episode set in 1862, titled Prelude. This 43-minute opener, reminiscent of a Civil War film complete with graphic violence, stars Bradley Cooper as an ancestor of the Gemstone family. Cooper’s character is portrayed throughout the episode as a devious crook willing to go to any length for money, including murder and masquerading as a pastor to infiltrate a Confederate unit as a Chaplain. His journey towards redemption is central to the episode.

This season marks the final run for The Righteous Gemstones, which airs Sundays at 10 PM on HBO and its streaming service, Max.