Star WarsIs at Its Most Interesting When It Trusts Us to Not Trust It

The Acolyte 's flashback episode is a rare experiment for a franchise obsessed with a rigidly defined canon—an implicit request to not believe everything we see.

June 14, 2024 · 1 min · 46 words · Matthew Robbins

The third episode ofThe Acolyteis pretty incredible fora lot of reasons.

And it is a narrative machine that is extremely rare for Star Wars.

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