The Acolyte (2024)
pramwire 2 points 3 months ago.

Just read today the show has been cancelled officially with no second season coming. I can’t say im particularly bothered either way.
Just enough of a fan that i still watched it. Dunno if it was quite to the standard of a thing i would watch again ever or more than once at most.
Overall however i agree while there were plenty of things about it that weren’t awful there were certainly plenty of not great bits as well.
I recall the first force scene where someone gets held with the force over a cliff or something like that to be such awful cgi and wire work it was painfully obvious there was little even quality movie magic much less the force.
Once i got into that mindset of looking for all the reality breaking things like cartoonish physics shoe horned into a fast and furious movie that aspect alone added at least one fault or a couple to each episode.
Then of course come the humanity meter or when you see characters being hypocrites. Even the older wiser ones being painfully loving and blind towards double standards.
It really did have that overly strong feeling of being a vehicle for ideologies and modern perspectives over a thing unto itself.
On that note i can’t say im sad to see it go.

hellsingfan01 2 points 3 months ago.

A show like this is what you get when you hire Harvey Weinstein’s former personal assistant Leslye Headland as the creator and executive producer of the show heck she even spent a good deal of time when the show was airing for blaming the fans for not watching the show with the show even having ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY MILLION DOLLARS all of which you can’t see on screen.