I'm sure we all know about the low audience scores given to The Acolyte. Rotten Tomatoes was sitting down at 14% since around the third episode, and was that low up until at least the last episode. Now that it's nearly a week out from the season finale, I figured I'd take another look.
The Rotten Tomatoes score has gone up to 17% and other review platforms have gone up a bit also.
So I decided to read through a few of the recent ones. Here are two examples:
The showrunners accuse fans of "review bombing" but are apparently just fine with artificial review boosting. I saw a bunch of these double reviews and nearly every single one talked about things like diversity, a "fresh take", production values, etc, all in that typical bland corporate-speech type of language.
Whereas the negative reviews are detailed and specific without ever getting into racism, bigotry, sexism, or other things fans are often accused of. If you read through the negative reviews they are often well thought out criticisms of the story itself and the quality of acting.
I just wanted to bring this fake review boosting to the community's attention. If you enjoyed the show, that's awesome. But it's dishonest to dilute honest and fair criticisms of a show.
I mean, I had the whole "She's got a twin sister whose doing it" thing pegged from the moment we saw the 'good' sister working as a mechanic in illegal jobs or whatever.
I had shroom-guy pegged for being the Sith Master from the moment he warned her that "he would know"... or whatever that conversation was in the apothecary.
I joked about it because, that'd be too obvious, right? Nope.
The only thing going for the show is that it has some decent wushu glowbat combat. That's about it.
I watched it. I enjoyed it in the same way that I enjoyed a lot of shitty scifi or fantasy- it was 'okay', it filled the silence; but it wasn't something I was going to make a night out of.
Yeah, agreed, it's like 6.5/10. Nothing amazing, but not actively bad.