The Walking Dead is not slowing down in the ratings. The season four finale drew in over 15.7 million viewers for the shocking finale.
Dead saw a 17% increase from last week's viewership and this finale saw a 26% increase from the finale last year, Variety reported.
The Walking Dead, which stars Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus and Lauren Cohan, is the highest-rated show on cable currently and the fourth season has averaged 13.3 million viewers an eposide.
LA Times reported that even though the season four finale was a strong showing for the AMC network it did not set a series record.
This finale also set records on Twitter activity. Dead was the No. 1 non-sports related program of the night on Twitter across all networks. The show had 1.01 million show-related tweets from 356,770 unique individuals.
Talking Dead, which is the after show for Walking Dead which is hosted by Chris Hardwick drew in a series record 7.3 million viewers.