To avoid competing with Super Bowl Sunday, the fourth episode of the show was made available two days early on HBO Max and HBO On Demand. Part of the show's success this week could be due to a scheduling anomaly. With 61.3x demand, it now has more than twice the demand of the second ranked breakout series, Wednesday. Demand for the show rose by nearly 40% compared to last week. This week however it widened its lead by a considerable margin. Last week HBO's The Last of Us finally took the top spot in our weekly ranking last.
Breakout shows are the most in-demand series that have premiered in the past 100 days. In this article we look at the top breakout shows of the past week.