Season 7a is over and now begins the wait for Season 7b. The live viewer numbers for 708 Turning Points is 0.33 million viewers. That’s live and as we all know it doesn’t include app viewing, encore performances, or the midnight viewing. I wish they’d release those numbers but I think despite Outlander ending with season eight, it has been a big money maker at Starz.
Looks like a little pick up in the live viewers which I assume is about the surprise at the end of the previous episode.
Here are the live viewer ratings for the first three episodes of the season: A Life Well Lost, The Happiest Place on Earth, and Death Be Not Proud. None of them seem great but I believe these are great for live viewer ratings as most are viewed on apps and encore showing so we aren’t seeing viewer ratings but the live cable ratings.
I can’t say I’m happy about the ending. We had a good chunk of the book left and what a horrible cliffhanger. Overall the season was pretty good but as I didn’t enjoy this Brown’s taking Claire story line in the book… well I don’t love it in the show either.
Not the best episode of this season ratings wise but I’m going to assume people who normally do the live viewer thing either watched the early midnight release or an encore performance because from the hype it doesn’t seem like anyone missed this episode.
Below find the episodes in order of their rating. I think this is the norm now for live viewership versus the streaming. Again, I wish we could see those numbers.
Remember all those “live” viewer ratings we shared? Well, as suspected they meant very little in the grand scheme of things. I wondered and my suspicions were confirmed. Matt took to Twitter before the finale to thank fans for making Season 5 the most watched season of Outlander. Wow. We are an impressive bunch.
