Star Wars: The Acolyte

Star Wars: The Acolyte wasn’t the Dark Side Roaring Rampage the adverts promised, and also not the cheery space adventure that a High republic series could also offer, but rather a sorta-twisty mystery, realpolitik bummer and sad character study, albeit with cool lightsaber fights.

And Serious People With Lightsabers has long been not my kind of Star Wars.

Didn’t hate it, but not my bag.

Highlight: the otherwise often unrelatable Mae’s extremely relatable reaction to Bazil.

Also David Harewood in two scenes as Senator 100% Correct.

Lowlight: Torbin’s fake beard. Wow. No.

I did appreciate that one terrible Dark Side action did not cause an immediate switch to total supervillainy. I never liked that.