Not CS related, but thought it worth the share- since there’s so much general Once negativity what with this site being heavy on the sour grapes train over story direction.
ABC’s Once Upon A Time is consistently one of SpoilerTV’s most popular series. IMDb users also rate it, with 117,907 ratings equating to an 8.1 average. Once Upon A Time has been on the air for three seasons, and its last season saw a strong increase in its episode ratings, with the season finale garnering the highest episode rating yet, a 9.5 averaged from 855 votes. All of its premieres and finales sit higher than their respective season trendlines too.
The IMDB stats seem to telly quite nicely with the actual viewer/rating numbers in this case.
It drives me nuts when I see people harping on about how S3 had lower ratings than S2- bollocks! S3’s later eps (after Neal’s death- from memory), were that time slots & day’s most watched show for 3weeks in a row & rated higher over all across the season. As far as viewership & ratings goes, S3 has been the strongest yet- hardly the downward decline those with sour grapes want to believe it was :/
Needed to get that off my chest- sorry. Rant over 🙂