The Season 3 finale of “Yellowjackets” reached 3 million viewers after seven days.
Compared to the Season 2 finale, that marks a 19% increase overall and a 54% increase when isolating for streaming viewership alone, according to a combination of Nielsen’s measurement of linear viewers on Showtime’s cable channel and Paramount Global’s own data regarding streams on Paramount+.
According to Paramount, the episode was the most-streamed in the series’ history. The company didn’t report ratings information throughout all of the season’s run, but did previously report the Season 3 premiere as having had the highest streaming viewership ever, with a 58% increase over streams of the Season 2 premiere.
However, it isn’t totally possible to make apples-to-apples comparisons between the overall audience of “Yellowjackets” episodes linear Showtime viewers included. Paramount didn’t report viewership throughout the run of Season 3 besides its premiere, which hit just over 2 million viewers, but that was counted over its opening weekend rather than the full week of viewership being counted for the finale.
That said, Paramount touts Season 3 as the most-watched so far when accounting for seven days of viewership for all episodes and “Yellowjackets” as the second most-streamed Showtime original ever, only ranking behind “Dexter: Original Sin.”
Chris McCarthy, co-CEO of Paramount Global and President of Showtime and MTV Entertainment Studios, said in a statement that “’Yellowjackets’ is a fiercely original, genre-bending phenomenon – an electrifying blend of psychological horror, survival thriller and coming-of-age drama from the brilliant minds of Ashley and Bart and brought to life by our stellar cast. Season 3 drove record numbers and was key to maintaining Paramount+’s ranking as a top three SVOD for original series’ minutes, proving the power of our differentiated strategy with fewer, bigger, breakthrough series.”
