All The Acolyte season 2 news we’ve heard so far
Star Wars lore is big and complicated and multifaceted, and so much of it is being written on TV. Sure, there’s some forthcoming movies in the works, but even those will pick up where things like The Mandalorian season 3 left off (and the set up for season 4). Suffice it to say, if you want to see where Star Wars is headed — and understand the full scope of this world a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away — your best bet is to find it on television.
And to fully understand it you’ll have to look to a world even further back, a long, long time ago (some 100 years pre-Phantom Menace) in The Acolyte. The High Republic-set mystery thriller adventure explored a time when the Sith were rare, Jedi were plentiful, and the gray side of the Force was in full swing. Now that it’s over, the question remains: Is there more to tell in The Acolyte? Will they even get time to tell it? Here’s everything you should know about Star Wars: The Acolyte season 2 after watching the first season’s finale.
There’s been no official renewal notice yet, but showrunner Leslye Headland is certainly interested. In a conversation with Nerdist midway through season 1, Headland said that there’s been nothing concrete yet: “I have no idea. Well, not that I have no idea. I would say there are conversations. And I don’t know when that will happen. I don’t know when that decision will be made.”
It makes sense that she’s keen to get a second season, considering how much she didn’t feel she could cover in the first season. “There were many things in the sequel trilogy, as well as the prequels, that we just kept kind of pining and saying, OK,we’d like to do this,” Headland told a roundtable in mid-July, citing specifically the power of creating life and how a Force dyad relates to that. “We’re not going to cover all of it in season one.”
Unfortunately, shows like The Acolyte take a while to pull together — the timeline is often closer to every two years than it is every year (or, longer, if you’re A
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