The second season of “Big Little Lies” came to a close Sunday, bringing the HBO drama a series high in total viewers as a parting gift.
The Season 2 finale — which is possibly also the series finale — scored 3.1 million sets of eyeballs when counting linear viewings and those on streaming platforms HBO Go and HBO Now. The tally for the episode, titled “I Want to Know,” is up 19 percent from the Season 1 closer, which was the show’s previous most-watched installment.
The 9 o’clock airing of the finale was watched by an average of 2 million viewers on HBO, also a series high for the drama, which stars Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Shailene Woodley, Laura Dern, Zoe Kravitz and Meryl Streep.