Andor season 2 episodes 7-9: blood on the streets (but not the Empire’s hands)
It took me a while to finally watch the next three episodes of Andor. Despite liking this show, I was still sulking about Cinta. (And, as I said last time,…
Andor season 2 episodes 4-6: raise my hopes just to shatter them
Ah, Andor: politically relevant, emotionally weighty, cinematically gorgeous. Also: crusher of dreams, breaker of hearts, murderer of my soul. Well, let’s not get hyperbolic. Let’s just try to focus on…
Andor season 2 episodes 1-3: a slow burn with rising stakes
I remember finishing the first season of Andor in 2022 thinking “Wait what? What kind of an ending is that?” before realizing it wasn’t a miniseries: we had a second…
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…
