The Disney+ “Star Wars” Murder Mystery Series “The Acolyt” “ Received decent reviews from the critics, but as it proves a little more abysmal 19% popcorn meter score for rotten tomatoes, the Fandom did not take over the show exactly. While the series’ The hiring of the High Republic could have been a gold mine for “Star Wars” that The fan reception and the cancellation of the show after a single season mean that we may not be able to visit the era on the screen soon. All of this certainly means that “The Acolyt” will drop as a catastrophic mistake that nobody has seen, right?
Not quite so. On the contrary, the 2024-year-end film and television report of the data analysis company for the entertainment industry Bright has revealed some interesting numbers about “The Acolyt”. As it turned out, the show was not only the most watched “Star Wars” project from 2024, but it was also the second most common Disney+ series in impressive 2.7 billion minutes. Only “Percy Jackson and the Olympian” (3 billion minutes of view) were better off for the platform.
The Akolyte has made a good job in a difficult year for large franchise companies
Under certain circumstances, the news that a canceled “Star Wars” show was actually pretty good, a good reason for the Fandom to open a nice little outrage. Apart from the fact that the volume fans never really came back behind “The Acolyt”, the show of the show is delivered with an asterisk. The Luminate report showed that 2024 was a very difficult year for franchise companies, which is clear when it compares the 2.7 billion minutes recorded by “The Acolyt” with the previous year. In January 2024, Nielsen’s data (about variety) The legal drama “suits” as the most viewed streaming series from 2023 and Netflix looks no less than 57.7 billion minutes. In the meantime, the most prepared Disney+ Show was another “Star Wars” series in the form of “The Mandalorian” with 12.3 billion minutes.
While this comparison can empty the tires of “The Acolyt” a little, it is still worth remembering that its minutes of view made it the number two of the streamer of 2024 (and with “suits”, especially with 134 consequences A one-to-one comparison for “The Acolyt” is not exactly fair). Actually, Disney has already explained that the cancellation of “The Acolyt” “ Had little to do with his performance. Like the co-chair from Disney Entertainment, Alan Bergman, previously told vultureThe decision to set the expensive show was purely financially:
“So how it is ‘draws’Akolyt‘We were satisfied with our performance, but it was not where we had to get the cost structure of this title, honestly to make a season 2. That is the reason why we didn’t. “
“The Acolyt” is currently in its entirety on Disney+.
