The Acolyte has the lowest Rotten Tomatoes score of any show or film in the Star Warsfranchise after receiving a slew of negative reviews by trolls.
The new series currently has a 14 per cent audience score – an even lower rating than the critically panned Star Wars: The Clone Wars 2008 film’s 19 per cent, and the notorious 1978 Star Wars: Holiday Special’s 25 per cent
The show also has a low IMDb rating of 3.5 stars; 56 per cent of users gave it one star. These low scores are likely down to review bombing –it’s been highigted by fans that the show’s Rotten Tomatoes audience score started off as 50 per cent on 5 June, before rapidly plummeting over the last fortnight.
The Acolyte stars the Black actor Amandla Stenberg (The Hate U Give, Bodies Bodies Bodies) as twin Force users on opposite sides of a war. Last week’s episode, “Destiny”, included a romantic moment between two female witches. However, some trolls appear to have got confused about which project to target. A similarly named, but entirely unrelated, 2008 horror film called Acolytes has been bombarded with negative reviews./risi3d.com
