The Season 3 premiere had attracted 21.5M global viewers in the first three days across HBO and HBO Max, Warner Bros. Discovery said Thursday.

That’s down about 8% from Season 2’s 23.4M viewers in three days, but it’s still a strong enough audience retention for the season debut. A decline was somewhat expected given that the show (as many do) also lost viewers between Seasons 1 and 2 .

That difference is not significant.