Disney+ cancels The Acolyte season 2
https://deadline.com/2024/08/the-acolyte-canceled-no-season-2-star-wars-disney-plus-1236044233/Word of the decision comes more than a month after the eight-episode first season of the series from creator, director, executive producer and showrunner Leslye Headland wrapped its run on Disney+.
Very unfortunate this had to happen because I really enjoyed it. Leslye was uncompromising on her vision as it should be and is proud of this series, just like Paul Feig is with his Ghostbusters movie which IMO is better than 2, Afterlife, and Frozen Empire.
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This isn't a comment about The Acolyte specifically, because I didn't watch that one.
But the TV producers and show-runners need to realize that we're all better off when they tell the story - start to finish - in a finite number of episodes. Whether it's 8 episodes, or 10 or 12 ... just tell the whole story and then move on.
When they take a good story (sometimes it's a bestseller book) and then try to pivot into an ongoing series, they can't ever resolve anything. They use cliffhangers, red herrings, and other false manipulation. I'm to the point now that I only watch mini-series, not open-ended "series" shows.
It's so disappointing to get interested in a "series" and then find out they decided to cancel it because the viewer numbers didn't excite the advertisers enough.
