We had this in the headlines yesterday but seeing as I’ve written about this show at length twice already, I wanted to complete the trilogy with this post.
Just to rewind a bit, the Disney+ show The Acolyte was released in June and was immediately met with a lot of criticism from fans who were not impressed with the first few episodes. I won’t go into the details but if you’re interested I gave a summary of the first four episodes here.
The show had two basic problems, one practical and one conceptual. First, the writing was pretty bad. The show is designed as a mystery of sorts which jumps around from past to present and back again without really creating much intrigue. In fact, what you discover by the end of the show is that the writers lied to their audience in the early episodes to hide part of the story so it could be revealed later as a shocking twist. But it wasn’t a…
