The ultimate, heartbreaking failure of Killing Eve
In my second (and final) year of college (I had a lot of transfer credits going in), I started Killing Eve. This was fall 2021, but I’d been aware of…
The darkly erotic and murderous pages of the Killing Eve trilogy
These reviews are crossposted from my Goodreads account and can be read here, here, and here. Killing Eve book 1: Codename Villanelle *2.75 She's guarding him from the truth about…
End of the hyperspace lane: no season 2 for The Acolyte
…wow. It’s not that I wasn’t apprehensive about The Acolyte’s future, but for Disney+ to acknowledge the show’s failure this openly… like I said, wow. For a Star Wars show…
HIWWI: The Acolyte
Of course it has to be the one SW show I’m caught up on in real time that’s just so… meh. Nah, “meh” is too generous. It’s more like “you…
The Acolyte: all the right ingredients with the wrong recipe
Consider the ingredients of The Acolyte to be its characters, premise, initial relationships, and lightsaber duels. The oven is its execution and its glaze is the finale. In our case,…
The Acolyte episode 8: heartbreaking in all the wrong ways
Here we are! The season finale, the culmination of everything The Acolyte has been building up to… And how do you say “faceplant” in Aurebesh? (Just kidding. I already know…
The Acolyte episode 7: return of the unexpected
This series is such a roller coaster of suspense. Sometimes, you roll your eyes at the predictability of an exchange or the results of a battle, and then you’re watching…
The Acolyte episode 6: what you expect is what you get
Episode 5 was a paradigm shift for The Acolyte. In just 35 minutes, it recontextualized the entire past of the show and left multiple bodies in its wake. In its…
The Acolyte episode 5: powerful in so many ways
Where to start? We’re now more than halfway through The Acolyte. I’ve enjoyed the show, but it hadn’t yet wowed me. And episode 5… okay, you win. I’m wowed, I’m…
The Acolyte episode 4: character development speedrun
It’s always the midpoint where SW shows tend to slip. With the character and plotline already introduced, these episodes can feel drawn out, as if they’re just a vehicle to…
