I’ve been largely ignoring The Acolyte, the Disney Plus series that takes place in the High Republic era of Star Wars. As a long-time Star Wars fan, I don’t have much interest in that particular […]
It’s a great time to be a fan of Star Wars, witches, and witches who are in Star Wars. The writing has been on the wall for a while in The Acolyte, with the show’s […]
Manny Jacinto is hot; this is known. But The Acolyte is making great use of that fact by leaving the show’s demonstration of the seductive nature of the Dark Side of the Force in his […]
Is wanting freedom so wrong? The Acolyte‘s Qimir tempts us to think very deeply about that question as he swings into the Star Wars universe with style and charisma. The series has been teasing the […]
The Acolyte has pulled no punches when it comes to delivering character deaths and killing fascinating figures. We were stunned when Wookiee Jedi Master Kelnacca was killed in episode four of the Star Wars series […]
The Acolyte‘s fifth episode revealed the identity of Mae’s dark Master, but the person underneath that mask wasn’t the only fascinating thing we learned about that helmet. Qimir’s terrifying headgear on The Acolyte is made […]
The Acolyte finally unmasked Mae’s master during the show’s shocking fifth episode. The mysterious Jedi killer in The Acolyte is the person we suspected from the very first time we met him: Manny Jacinto’s Qimir. […]
Disney While the arc of Star Wars quality has been trending downward since 2019 with the release of the truly abysmal sequel-trilogy-capper Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the iconic franchise might have finally bottomed out with […]
The Acolyte‘s fourth episode saw Mae’s mysterious dark master step out of the shadows. Who is this sinister Force user wielding a red lightsaber and sending his student to murder Jedi? That unknown masked figure […]
Star Wars isn’t Star Wars without a few adorable aliens who look like critters you’d want to buy at a pet shop. And The Acolyte is no different. In episode four, we meet the latest […]
Star Wars: The Acolyte proved right away that it was a series unafraid to kill its major characters. And ever since it dispatched Jedi Master Indara in its first episode, the Star Wars series has […]
“I carried them.”“I created them.”“And what happens if the Jedi discover how you created them?” We knew The Acolyte, which takes place more than a century before The Phantom Menace, would show the early days […]
When the first trailer for Lucasfilm’s latest Star Wars series, The Acolyte, dropped back in March, the group email for my Star Wars: Edge of the Empire role-playing game immediately blew up. The tongue-in-cheek question […]
In episode three of The Acolyte, we get an extended flashback to the childhoods of Osha and Mae (Leah and Lauren Brady) on the planet Brendock. We see they were the only children raised by […]
The Acolyte is only two episodes in but it is already a Disney+ darling. According to Deadline, the Star Wars series gained 4.8 million views in its first day, making The Acolyte the biggest series […]
The galaxy far, far away is a big place, and every new Star Wars show and movie makes it a little bigger by introducing new planets. That’s especially true on Disney+’s new High Republic era […]
Amandla Stenberg describes herself as “an average enjoyer of ‘Star Wars’” before joining “Star Wars: The Acolyte.” The actor, known best for her roles in films such as “The Hate U Give” (2018). “Bodies Bodies […]
In the lead-up to Star Wars: The Acolyte, official sources gave us a tease of the characters we expected to meet in the series. One of the characters prominently featured in discussions of The Acolyte […]
The Acolyte‘s official description of Qimir makes Manny Jacinto’s character sound like a fun rogue, the type of secondary figure we frequently meet in the galaxy far, far away. Lucasfilm calls him a former smuggler-turned […]
The Acolyte is the latest Star Wars series to launch on Disney Plus. Unlike previous series, such as Ahsoka (after Return of the Jedi) and Andor (before A New Hope), it takes place in a […]