The Acolyte’s Twin Concept Sputters In Its Debut

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 While The Acolyte is reviewing well enough, as good as Ahsoka, perhaps, but not quite as well as The Mandalorian and Andor, I came away from the episode not really liking the entire central premise.

This is not a spoiler, as both a late TV spot and an interview with the star herself confirmed this before the show even came out, that Amandla Stenberg plays force-powered twins on the show. Here’s what she said to The Electric PlaygrounI…don’t like it so far. I don’t think it worked well in the first two episodes, and I’m not sure how I feel about how it seems like it’s going to play out going forward, but I suppose I have to give it more of a chance.

There are a few problems with this. The show tries to pull a “gotcha” in the first episode by having Mae stalk and kill a Jedi (Carrie-Anne Moss, who better be in some flashbacks lest she not be totally wasted). Then, we see a chipper, very not-killer-seeming Osha in the next scene, who is arrested for the crime and everyone quickly puzzles out that a twin sister she thought was dead is in fact alive, and now hunting Jedi. It feels like kind of a cheap trick of an opening

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