Only 2.9 million people turned in to watch the series finale of HBO’s Succession. By any sane standard, that’s a flop—a massive flop, a humiliating flop.
You don’t know Succession is a flop if you’re on Twitter or reading entertainment publications. If you’re exposed to either, you would think the Succession finale was equal to the Beatles appearing on Ed Sullivan (45 million), the final episode of Roots (51 million), the “Who Shot J.R.?” episode of Dallas (53 million), the series finale of M*A*S*H (60 million), the series finale of Seinfeld (76 million), or the series finale of HBO’s Game of Thrones (19.3 million).
Gee, you might even think the Succession finale grabbed more viewers than an average episode of Jeopardy (6.5 million) or NCIS (6.7 million), or Good Morning America (3.02 million).
Nope.
Only 2.9 million.
And yet, we get this…
I don’t have…
