Alyssa Mercante for Kotaku: Star Wars: The Acolyte Is Doing a Different Kind of Fan-Service, and It Rocks

The Disney+ series ticks many boxes that the more traditional, masculine fans of the franchise have been begging for for years (High Republic lore, rare aliens, wild lightsaber fights) while also aggressively and unapologetically catering to the femme side of fandom with a hot bad guy and heaps of sexual tension. We’ve never seen anything like this in Star Wars media before, and it’s breaking some brains.

The best measure of how much I’m enjoying a show is how long it takes me to watch it when new episodes come out. I’ve watched every episode of The Acolyte Wednesday morning before work. But you know it’s good because even the loudest voices who say they hate it can’t stop watching it either 😉

I’m not going to say this is my favorite Star Wars thing ever, but it’s the sort of story I was hoping to see in this new era of Star Wars: new characters, new worlds, familiar themes with a twist…Manny Jacinto killing it.