Lucasfilm has decided not to move forward with a second season of the Star Wars spinoff featuring Amandla Stenberg, meaning that the narrative of The Acolyte will not resume. Nearly a month has passed since the eight-episode inaugural season of the show, which starred creator, director, executive producer, and showrunner Leslye Headland, concluded its Disney+ run. This knowledge is not wholly unexpected. While The Acolyte received a 78% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, it split fans of the Star Wars franchise, making up its total viewership.
Motivated by the popularity of the legendary space saga, The Acolyte began on June 4 with two episodes, and it was the greatest series premiere on Disney+ this year with 4.8 million views on its first day. Following five days of streaming, the total climbed to 11.1 million views worldwide. Disney’s data is supported by the fact that the show debuted at No. 7 (488 million minutes viewed) on Nielsen’s Top 10 originals chart during its debut week and rose to No. 6 subsequent week.
Disney+ has a high audience criterion for extending premium-end, big-budget series that cost well over $100 million a season to produce, just like other international streamers Netflix and Prime Video. Headland has stated in interviews that she had submitted concepts for a second season and expressed her desire for an extension.
The Mandalorian, Lucasfilm’s initial and most popular Disney+ series to date, is continuing, extending into features with the forthcoming The Mandalorian & Grogu. The second instalment of Ahsoka, the show produced by the same company as The Acolyte, has been extended. In the last days of the High Republic era, The Acolyte was a mystery-thriller that transported viewers to a universe of dark secrets and nascent dark-side forces. To look into a string of atrocities, a former Padawan reunites with her Jedi Master; nevertheless, the powers they face are darker than they could have imagined.