Invincible Vanishes From Nielsen Charts: Is Season 3 Losing Steam?

Invincible Vanishes From Nielsen Charts: Is Season 3 Losing Steam?

Amazon Prime’s Invincible animated series has now dropped off the Nielsen ratings charts, despite five episodes from Season 3 having been released.

Nielsen measures all episodes available during a given week, which includes content from previous seasons as well.

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Nielsen ratings Feb. 17-23, 2025 via THR

What are the ratings?

Following Episode 4 of Season 3 making the charts with 475 million minutes, Episode 5 is absent, as Netflix’s Gabby’s Dollhouse rounds out the list with 496 million minutes. With Invincible not appearing, it means the week Episode 5 was released fell below that number.

However, this doesn’t necessarily mean viewership dropped—if the minutes stayed at 475 million, Invincible still wouldn’t have made the charts.

Invincible Vanishes From Nielsen Charts: Is Season 3 Losing Steam?

Season 3 feels like filler—Will final episodes boost the ratings?

That said, as I mentioned in my review, Invincible Season 3 has mostly felt like boring filler—aside from the last two episodes. Honestly, you could skip the entire season and just watch the final two without missing a beat (similar to what happened with Kirkman’s The Walking Dead).

It’ll be interesting to see the Nielsen ratings for the rest of the season. Will it make the charts? Will the final episodes see an uptick?

Invincible Season 4 concerns?

While Invincible didn’t make Nielsen’s ratings charts for the week, there doesn’t seem to be anything to worry about—Season 4 is happening.

My only concerns are a potential drop in animation quality, which we’ve seen this season (particularly with Episode 5), and the storytelling. For whatever reason, it seems the animators take an unusually long time to produce the action scenes—especially compared to older animated shows. That could explain why the action is limited to just a couple of episodes, while the rest is filled with drawn-out blather. Likewise, it would also explain the lackluster storytelling in both Seasons 2 and 3.

About Matt McGloin

Matt McGloin is the editor-in-chief and publisher of Cosmic Book News, the independent entertainment news site he founded in 2008. He covers movies, comics, TV, video games and pop culture and has reported major industry scoops over the years, including revealing the Avengers: Endgame title ahead of its official announcement. Through Cosmic Book News, he helped Marvel Comics promote Guardians of the Galaxy and Nova through exclusive previews, artwork, and interviews, with the site also quoted in solicitations and on comic covers. He also reported on Marvel’s Daredevil: Born Again retooling before it was later confirmed by the trades.

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