'American Horror Story' maintains top cable ratings on Wednesday but is unable to stop the slip in viewership
'American Horror Story: Apocalypse's cable ratings displayed a downward trend again this Wednesday after FX aired the third episode for the season, 'Forbidden Fruit'. Although it still maintained its top position in the ratings in comparison to other shows like CC's 'South Park', VH1's 'Black Ink Crew' and FXX's 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia', this is the lowest the viewership has gone for the show this season. The horror drama scored a 0.9 rating in the adults 18-49 demo with its third episode, coming down from the 1.1 that it had scored with its second episode, 'The Morning After'.
'Apocalypse's premiere itself was the lowest in the show's season roster. It got 3.08 million views for its much-awaited season premiere and has been slipping ever since. 'Morning After' got 2.21 million views while 'Forbidden Fruit' scored a meager 1.95 million. In terms of critical acclaim, it has been doing positively overall. Rotten Tomatoes gave the season a 91% approval rating, with an average rating of 7.86/10, based on 59 reviews. On Metacritic too it did fairly well, scoring 62 out of 100 based on 30 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". The season has seven episodes this season unlike its last season 'American Horror Story: Cult', the seventh in the series, which had 11.