“Last Thing” Sets Apple’s Series Benchmark

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Released with little fanfare last month, the Jennifer Garner-led Apple TV+ series “The Last Thing He Told Me” has become the streamer’s most-watched limited series ever.

According to Nielsen, the series reached 4.5 million unique viewers in its first 31 days of streaming. The series premiere reached 3.4 million viewers – making it Apple’s most-watched drama episode of the year so far.

The Reese Witherspoon-produced series has now taken a position as the streaming service’s third highest-rated title of 2023, behind only “Ted Lasso” and “Shrinking”.

Its overall figure also puts it ahead of some of the more high-profile titles on the streamer’s drama slate since it launched in 2019.

This includes the Taron Egerton-led “Black Bird” (2.6 million), the Gary Oldman-led first season of “Slow Horses” (1.9 million), the Luke Evans-led “Echo” (1.4 million) and the Elizabeth Moss-led “Shining Girls” (1.3 million).

An adaptation of Laura Dave’s novel, Garner plays a woman who finds herself tasked to protect her stepdaughter (Angourie Rice) when her husband (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) mysteriously disappears.

Dave co-created the series alongside showrunner Josh Singer, and the show wrapped its run this past Friday.

Source: Variety