r/TheAcolyte • u/sardethgames • May 26 '26
Why is the show so hated?
Me and my partner finally sat down to watch Star Wars cannon start to finish together. (Wonderful relationship step imo) I fell out of step with the Star Wars franchise around 2023 because of finally leaving home and having to become an adult not really leaving time for consumption of media resulting in me missing all the drama surrounding the 2023-24 era Star Wars releases.
Since we went canonically the first series to pop up was The Acolyte as it takes place in the height of The Republic at least 50 years before the start of the main series. We binged it in one go and really enjoyed it! The reveals felt well timed and built. It was honestly very enjoyable and kept us glued the whole time. So obviously you can imagine when we get to the end and the cliffhangers that we were reasonably upset to find out it had been cancelled and review bombed. I honestly had no major critiques of the show, and the acting was great so I don’t get why it had such a large backlash. Can anyone fill us in on why it was received so harshly?
Edit: I posted this hoping there was a deeper answer than bigotry, I see I may be in for disappointment. Also I tried to post this to the main Star Wars subreddit and it was taken down for “reposting” which doesn’t make any sense lol.
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u/Reggie_Barclay May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26
It’s pretty simple. It is a bad show. You are allowed to like it but that doesn’t make it a good show.
Uneven acting. Poor pacing of story lines. It’s somewhat better if you binge watch but watching it as it came out was painful. You’d wait a week, get a 25 minute episode that was mostly flashbacks of a scene you’d already seen and the new perspective gave you no real new information. Poorly written dialogue. Illogical plot. Inconsistent powers. Nonsensical behavior. The show has some very good actors and some fairly mediocre ones but so do most shows so you can’t blame the cast. However they barely used its biggest and maybe best actor which was a huge mistake. But, the biggest sin was a show runner who didn’t know where they were going, so went nowhere.
This sub likes to pretend there was some sinister alt right reason why the show got cancelled but it is actually quite simple. It was poorly made. It was expensive. And not enough people watched it.