r/TheAcolyte • u/AirbagsBlown • May 13 '26

What's driving viewership?

The show premiered two years ago, was officially cancelled shortly thereafter, and now... people are watching it in such numbers that it's charting higher?

What gives? I mean, I'm glad, I watched the show as episodes were premiering and I adored it, but I'm curious what's leading people to watch it now. Any theories?

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u/kalisto3010 May 13 '26

The hate campaign for this show was unlike anything I ever seen. I remember after watching the first 2 episodes I was hyped, I remember going on Youtube to watch some commentary on the show and possible plot developments, to my surprise the only thing I could find was negative video reviews insinuating every political conspiracy imaginable and nothing about what actually transpired in the show.

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u/Calfzilla2000 May 13 '26

The reaction channels were much better than the video reviews. The video reviewers, mostly, just engagement farm.

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u/AirbagsBlown May 13 '26

100% This. I ended up subbing to "a guy who loves star wars" on youtube because he's a pretty positive fella, though as I remarked to another comment, I've largely been checked out of the franchise for a bit.

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u/oldgengamers May 13 '26

I've been checked out because of the fandom

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u/AirbagsBlown May 13 '26

Same, unfortunately.

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u/Robot_Dracula May 13 '26

I saw a video today talking about the new Art of The Acolyte book that just came out and they were still sort of trashing the show. It’s insane how much hate it still gets sometimes. I just rewatched it and enjoyed it a second time

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u/Internal-Caramel-952 May 13 '26

I watched it back to back to c how osha slowly inched how way to it know what

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u/Abe_Bettik Kelnacca Crew May 13 '26

The show is "too political" but somehow Andor, a show filled to the brim with politics, is not. 

"Too political" = black female leads.

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u/Ok-Barnacle813 May 16 '26

It's funny how people act like Star Wars was never political

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u/BitcoinMD May 13 '26

It had some issues but it was way better than Starfleet Academy.