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The Acolyte Recap: The Dark Side
What a… surprise?
In last week’s Acolyte review, I complained — just a bit — about stories that withhold crucial pieces of their central premise for as long as possible while still teasing the profound revelations to come. The lightsaber-dueling is thrillingly kinetic and even beautiful at times; and once again Michael Abels’s score enhances the sense of grandeur and fateful drama, with choral voices that echo some of John Williams’s best music in the Star Wars prequel trilogy. On the one hand, I’m glad The Acolyte creator Leslye Headland and her team (represented this week by director Alex Garcia Lopez and credited writers Kor Adana and Cameron Squires) didn’t drag out this reveal any longer.
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