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Leslye Headland Turns Star Wars to Its Dark Side
The Acolyte creator renders a “positive corruption arc” and wrestles with her past in a galaxy far, far away.
In the climax of the season finale, Osha channels all her repressed rage against her former master Sol (Lee Jung-Jae), killing him to avenge the murder of her mother, and bleeds the Kyber crystals of his lightsaber, turning it from blue to red. In Sleeping With Other People, it’s this concept of “There’s something wrong with me if I’m attracted to someone who doesn’t love me.” In Russian Doll, Nadia is all about the performative aspect of being a cool downtown New Yorker, learning that it’s essentially a defense mechanism against looking inward. Brendok was always a matriarchal society, and it was all about juxtaposing the girls’ family of origin in a space that was exclusively female — the coding of that is, of course, homosexuality — to the paternalism that a father would have for a daughter, or a Jedi knight would have for a potential padawan.
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