Reunions are never as popular — was this season any different?

The reunion part 1 was viewed by 518,000 viewers and received a 0.24 rating in the 18-49 demographic. It remained the 4th highest-rated cable show of the evening.
This is a drop of 158,000 viewers, but that’s expected. In fact, this has higher viewership than some of the season’s earlier episodes, so it’s not bad at all.
Over the past seven days, MTV’s most-watched show was last week’s episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race, which got 608,000 viewers. But, a reunion isn’t competition for a regular episode — though it did get 2.5x the viewers of The Real Friends of WeHo.