That said, they still make “The Calm Before” the lowest-rated episode in The Walking Dead history.
In Live+Same day calculations, The Walking Dead’s penultimate episode of Season 9 scored only a 1.5 rating in the key 18-49 age demographic, with only 4.1 million people tuning in.
Those numbers were enough to keep it on top of the competition in cable TV on Sunday, March 24, with the three highest-rated broadcasts behind the zombie apocalypse series all being NCAA basketball games.