The Acolyte Archives

When we're first introduced to Manny Jacinto's Qimir in the Disney+ Star Wars series The Acolyte, we discover he's working with Jedi assassin Mae (Amandla Stenberg) producing the poison that she requested to use against Jedi Master Torbin (Dean-Charles Chapman) After Mae couldn't penetrate his Force wall, she came back later to use the poison,[...]

The Power of the Sith has returned as the new Disney+ series Star Wars: The Acolyte brings The Stranger to life The Stranger is the newest dark side force wielded, and the latest episode, "Night," shows just how powerful this being is It is unclear what the history behind this character is, but his appearance[...]

The Acolyte went beyond what I thought was a crime drama set in a Star Wars setting on the latest episode "Night." In the previous episode, "Day," we discover Mae (Amandla Stenberg)is beginning to have second thoughts about her dark mission As we pan to the other party, her twin sister Osha (Stenberg) is approached[...]

The Acolyte creator Leslye Headland embraces Star Wars fans from every corner of the community who embrace her show, which includes the LGBTQ+ community she's a part of with her spouse, actress Rebecca Henderson, she cast as Jedi Master Vernestra Rwoh, a character introduced in Star Wars: The High Republic As the first openly LGBTQ+[...]

Action returns to the present in the latest episode of The Acolyte, which sees Amandla Stenberg's characters Mae and Osha at another crossroad as Mae is targeting her next Jedi in the Wookie, Kelnacca (Joonas Suotamo), who's living in isolation inside a forest on the planet Khofar Joining Mae is her associate, Qimir (Manny Jacinto),[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Prime Video's The Boys, Adult Swim's My Adventures with Superman, Disney+'s The Acolyte, BBC & Disney+'s Doctor Who, Max's Peacemaker, USA Network's WWE Raw, HBO's A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Amazon/MGM+'s The Nightbeast, USA Network's Resident Alien, HBO's House of the Dragon, Crystal Lake, Comedy Central's Everybody Still Hates Chris, CW's Superman &[...]

Instead of giving a series a chance, they're too busy whining about diversity like it's a bad thing, throwing around "woke" like they have an understanding of what it means, and review-bombing online sites that do nothing more than expose them for the hate mongers that they are. That brings us to Leslye Headland's Amandla Stenberg &[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? AMC's Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, Tom Brady/FOX Sports, Crunchyroll's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, The Dead Zone/Anthony Michael Hall, Crunchyroll's September Blu-Rays, TBS's AEW Collision, DC Studios' Superman, BBC's Doctor Who, Adult Swim's Smiling Friends, Prime Video's The Boys, Disney+'s The Acolyte, HBO's House of the Dragon, and more! Images/Screencaps: Prime Video, BBC/Disney+,[...]

Long before audiences saw Amandla Stenberg make their debut on the Disney+ series The Acolyte, the actor, who plays twins Osha and Mae, stumbled upon a mysterious discovery among the Star Wars fandom during Celebration 2023 Appearing on The Tonight Show, Stenberg shared a story about crashing a furry dance party while wearing a bunny[...]

The Acolyte drops a significant piece of the puzzle between twins Osha and Mae (Amandla Stenberg) in the episode "Destiny." Set 16 years before the series' present on the planet Brendok, we find the two girls, respectively played by Lauren Brady and Leah Brady, already with some mastery of the Force about to undergo a[...]

Hasbro is back with even more Star Wars Holocomm figures, and now the world of The Acolyte is joining the collection The Star Wars Holocomm collection puts fans right into the world of Star Wars, giving them new figures as if they were bounties or transmissions, as seen in the world Each figure features a[...]

Hasbro has just unveiled a new assortment of Star Wars collectibles from the new live-action Disney+ series The Acolyte This new release is pretty slick, as The Acolyte is coming to the Retro Collection with a new multipack The Star Wars: Retro Collection takes collectors back in time to the age of Kenner with limited[...]

The Acolyte has finally arrived on Disney+ and as a massive Star Wars fan, it has been a real treat The High Republic has mainly been discovered through literature with novels and comic books from Marvel, IDW, and Dark Horse So it is pretty exciting to see Disney taking fans to this new era to[...]

The latest Star Wars project has arrived on Disney+ with The Acolyte, which takes fans back to the era of The High Republic We are already three episodes in and this series is amazing, bringing back the Jedi to their former glory A new show like this surely has plenty of new characters, including one[...]

Japan's Suicide Squad ISEKAI, BBC's Doctor Who, Disney+'s The Acolyte, and more! Images/Screencaps: FX Networks, CBS Studios, DC Studios, Warner Bros Animation, Prime Video, BBC, CBS Entertainment, Hulu, Brubaker/Phillips (Image Comics), HBO BCTV Daily Dispatch: Yellowjackets, Creature Commandos, Among Us, Futurama, Superman, Exploding Kittens, Tales of the TMNT, The Legend of Vox Machina, Lanterns, Criminal, Rob McElhenney/Philadelphia Eagles, Doctor[...]

When Leslye Headland cast Lee Jung-jae as Jedi Master Sol in The Acolyte, it took the Korean actor by surprise since it would be his first role on American television, not to mention his first English-speaking one It did help that he's a lifelong Star Wars fan The series, which takes place about 100 years[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Prime Video's The Boys, Adult Swim's Smiling Friends, White Collar, HBO's True Detective, Prime Video's Reacher, Disney+'s The Acolyte, Prime Video's Gen V, Netflix's Sweet Tooth, Netflix's Terminator Zero, Netflix's Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft, Netflix's Stranger Things 5, Netflix's Arcane, Paramount+'s Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Wheel of Fortune, Prime[...]

It's that which serves as the basis of the Disney+ Star Wars series The Acolyte and the live-action debut of Vernestra Rwoh, who made her debut in High Republic novels Played by Rebecca Henderson, Vernestra is a senior member of the Jedi Order who rose to prominence as a young prodigy, remaining in correspondence with[...]

While promoting the Star Wars series The Acolyte, the only details of Amandla Stenberg's role were that of Mae, the vengeful assassin who has an ax to grind against the Jedi At this point, consider this "MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD!" territory, so consider yourself warned What creator Leslye Headland and Stenberg didn't expect the big reveal[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Max's Harley Quinn, Paramount+'s Criminal Minds: Evolution, Prime Video's Reacher, Netflix's Emily in Paris, Comedy Central's Beavis and Butt-Head, DC Studios' Superman, TBS's AEW Dynamite, SNL's Bowen Yang, Dave Chappelle & Shane Gillis, Netflix's Sweet Tooth, HBO's The Last of Us, Dimension 20, HBO's Big Little Lies, Peacock's The Traitors, Adult Swim's My Adventures[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Disney+'s The Acolyte, FX's Grotesquerie, Paramount+'s Frasier, Netflix's Peaky Blinders, Netflix's Sweet Tooth, Hostel/Paul Giamatti, Prime Video's Reacher, Prime Video's Gen V, Prime Video's The Boys, Netflix's That '90s Show, Netflix's One Piece, Max, Disney+'s The Bad Batch, and more! Images/Screencaps: Lucasfilm, Prime Video, Netflix, Lions Gate, Paramount Global, CBS Entertainment BCTV Daily Dispatch:[...]

The Acolyte, which is set 100 years before the events of The Phantom Menace at the end of the High Republic era, wipes that slate clean since it's uncharted territory that only the Legends/Expanded Universe and video games have tackled before, but not on film or television Leading the way is Amandla Stenberg, who's playing[...]

Not since The Mandalorian has there been another live-action Star Wars series without an established character as the lead, but with the premiere of The Acolyte on Disney+, that's going to change with Amandla Stenberg, who plays twin sisters Osha and Mae, one is a former Padawan learner that Jedi Master Sol (Lee Jung-jae) is[...]

Japan's Suicide Squad ISEKAI, Goldberg/Bret Hart, Adult Swim's Toonami Rewind, Prime Video's The Boys, Prime Video's Criminal, Zack Snyder's 300, Disney+'s The Acolyte, James Gunn, Paramount+'s Starfleet Academy, Prime Video's The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, FXX's It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Jimmy Kimmel/Donald Trump, and more! Images/Screencaps: Jimmy Kimmel Live, The White House, CBS Entertainment, Lucasfilm, WBTV,[...]

Over the past few weeks, we've been getting some terrific looks at Leslye Headland's Amandla Stenberg & Lee Jung-jae-starring The Acolyte With only days to go until Disney+ and Lucasfilm's "Star Wars" prequel series makes its debut (on June 4th, to be precise), that trend continues with the teaser "Awake." Probably the best way for us[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Netflix's The Umbrella Academy, Adult Swim's Smiling Friends, Star Wars/Lucasfilm CEO Kathleen Kennedy, TBS's AEW Dynamite, Max's Booster Gold, MeTV Toons, Prime Video's Young Sherlock, Prime Video's The Boys, Disney+'s Hawkeye, Paramount+'s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Prime Video's The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Disney+'s X-Men '97, Disney+'s[...]

Unfortunately, Disney+, Lucasfilm, and series creator/showrunner Leslye Headland's Amandla Stenberg & Lee Jung-jae-starring The Acolyte is dealing with the same close-minded nonsense – attacking the series based solely on the cast and not on having actually having seen the show yet Of course, you can rest assured that they've already conditioned themselves to hate whatever hits[...]

Dafne Keen has a filmography most actors dream of becoming a part of three major franchises including X-Men with 2017's Logan for 20th Century Studios, His Dark Materials for HBO, and now the Star Wars series The Acolyte, and she's only worked on eight projects in her career The Acolyte is set about 100 years[...]

Martin/Shōgun, AEW/WWE, Prime Video's Blade Runner 2099, Disney+'s The Acolyte, Crunchyroll's Dead Dead Demons Dededede Destruction, Prime Video's Criminal, Max's Tokyo Vice, Adult Swim's My Adventures with Superman, Adult Swim/Annecy, Deathstroke/James Gunn, Netflix's The Umbrella Academy, Disney+'s X-Men '97, Paramount+'s Star Trek: Discovery, Netflix's One Piece, Max's The Penguin, South Park/Lizzo, and more! Images/Screencaps: Max, Cartoon Network, Netflix, Prime Video, Lucasfilm, FX Networks, HBO, Adult Swim BCTV[...]

With only a week to go until Disney+ and Lucasfilm's "Star Wars" prequel series begins hitting screens, series creator, showrunner, and executive producer Leslye Headland's Amandla Stenberg & Lee Jung-jae-starring The Acolyte held a special screening event in London Joining the trio were Stenberg & Jung-jae's co-stars Manny Jacinto, Dafne Keen, Charlie Barnett, Rebecca Henderson, and[...]