Main cast: Lee Jung-jae (Master Sol), Jodie Turner-Smith (Mother Aniseya), Margarita Levieva (Mother Koril), Dean-Charles Chapman (Padawan Torbin), Joonas Suotamo (Padawan Kelnacca), Lauren Brady (Verosha Aniseya), Leah Brady (Mae-ho Aniseya), and Carrie-Anne Moss (Master Indara)
Director: Kogonada
Choice is a flashback episode, a direct sequel to Destiny, and seriously, this show could have been such a good, good take on the philosophy of the Jedi had it been more competently put together.
Instead, the misandry infesting the entire show only ends up making everything needlessly stupid and unintentionally hilarious.
Yes, the lesbian witches of woo-woo are back, and if anything, this episode only emphasizes what a horribly executed concept the whole thing is.
The “POWER OF ONE! POWER OF MANY!!!” nonsense makes for some fun memes at the expense of the show, and it will be hard to top that, but the hilarious “all dead at once” scene is pretty funny for all the wrong reasons.
Anyway, this whole episode will only shock those that are oblivious to the far-from-subtle “Men suck! They really do! OMG men are like… so eeuw!” theme permeating the past episodes. However, because the people making this show lack nuance or subtlety, and they also operate on the belief that women can’t do no wrong, these lesbian witches come off as psychotic instead of oppressed.
So yes, the psychotic witches escalate things to a hilarious degree with the Jedi team, the stupid wookie gets possessed and clobbers the two male Padawans but doesn’t kill them even when he can because of plot contrivances, and it is up to girl boss Indara to stop the wookie and act like she’s barely concerned that her male underlings just got beaten by strong lesbian witches because, eeuw, who cares about men, am I right, people.
In the end, intentionally or not, Sol and the now-dead Torbin come off as victims in this whole situation, and yet Torbin was made to off himself a while back because how dare he made women mad at him. Sol is guilty over… I’m not sure what, following the wrong girl boss, maybe?
He even tries to save young Osha and Mae, only for the two idiots to just stand there and get separated, again because of plot reasons.
The Acolyte is such a joke of a badly written show that I can only wonder whether the people behind this thing borrowed the premise from some young adult fantasy novel only to botch everything up because they are all diversity hires with little to no experience, yet are allowed to helm such an expensive show because they have the right skin color, sexual preference, and had a close connection to important people like Harvey Weinstein.
At any rate, just one more episode to go, so here’s another drink to celebrate that fact.
