The Acolyte, Episode 6 | ew, creepy…cat ladies deserve better! 

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It's very fitting that this show is made by Harvey Weinstein's assistant

I appreciate the Acolyte simply for allowing me to find your channel lmao

I just want to be able to point out sub par writing without being called toxic. 😄

She has given me the creeps since I found out she was Weinstein's right arm during his reign of terror. Now she jokes about being evil?

The line I keep hearing when people say her name, "Former personal assistant of Harvey Weinstein" should really tell people everything you need to know about her.

Star Wars was a show made by men, for everyone. Now Star War is a show made by women, for no one.

'Cringe and ham-fisted' a wondrous combination.

"It's amazing she hasn't been coached on how to shape a narrative." One would think she got hired because she already knew how.

One doesn't stay Harvey's assistant for as long as Leslie was without being utterly compromised.

Good writing. Fresh perspective. More analysis please.

I'm glad someone said it. You're not alone in getting "the creeps" from her. I couldn't necessarily put my finger on it until I heard you say it that way, but there's a sort of detached 'scientist dissecting a bug' vibe I get every time I see her interact with another person. I'm being melodramatic; but the most well known comparison I could make would be to the recent James Somerton apology videos after that little plagiarism kerfuffle last December. Or any video of Kenneth Copeland talking. There's just something "off" where their actions or words don't quite match their eyes. It's hard to articulate, but "gives me the creeps" is an accurate assessment.

Imagine the irony of a showrunner producing a show with a very explicit theme that frames moral virtue as an illusory self-serving device, completely contingent on perspective, yet who seeks to vilify anyone who expresses an opinion about the show that is different than hers??

the acolyte series are insulting all the smart people (regardless who they are), the non-racist people, the gay/lesbian people, even the worst porn movies, and 1977's peoples who work so hard to make star wars, the best movie ever.

This is the smartest and best crafted critique of The Acolyte. Love it.

Well, if nothing else, I do thank Leslye and pals for the confidence boost, haven't felt this good about my writing in ages because even I can write better stories than this. That said, I do feel a bit miffed Disney hasn't offered me a 180 million dollar budget to turn my incoherent fanfics into a TV show no one watches, but I guess I just don't know the right people in the industry... Also, I'm still angry about Carrie-Anne Moss getting only a few minutes of screen time, she deserved better, and I as a lesbian cat lady originally tuning in just for Carrie-Anne Moss deserved better, too, dang it. LOL an excellent ending for the video, by the way! xD

Love your thoughts, and your delivery. My brain just sighs with relief when a new kmc post arrives. The whole Acolyte event has been a really captivating ride, the longer it goes the more refined and considered the responses of many thoughtful and articulate fans. Emotional reactions becoming ever-increasingly considered responses to the blame attributions of Disney. A level of considered and intelligent examination rarely seen these days. Who would have thought the reactions of viewers to another low quality studio creation would be the best thing on screen for years. Thank you for your part!!!and please do conclude your Acolyte reviews with a grand finale!

I just love that Smillo Ren has become the unofficial name for the character.

yes i love how you said it some people just regardless of identifiers are creepy and she gives off this ick like “i’m above you in thought so i must share that with you”

this intro strikes me as the most accretive, rude, brilliant and comprehensive analysis of the state of modern culture, not only throughout the corporate capture of pop culture but across mediums. the plasticity of the syntax allowing the juxtaposition of other genders/age-socio-economic into the narrative of the thirst trap, is just brilliant.!!

I know how you feel. I’m basically in the exact same demographic and I can’t make heads or tails out of this relationship. I even went back and rewatched Natalie Wynn’s Twilight video which is quiet in-depth in it’s analysis of romance as a genre. Usually this only works if the antagonist has some positive qualities about him which the female protagonist cultivates into a rehabilitation of his character. I see nothing to rehab with The Stranger. How do you rehab crap? I guess unless you leave it up to your fan base to do it for you as Leslie appears to be doing. I keep finding that the biggest issue that I’m finding with this series is a serious lack of set ups. Especially here. It’s like “suddenly relationship!” where there clearly isn’t one. This isn’t how people work. Great video btw. She’s always been my favorite Catwoman.

The Mandalorian had baby Yoda, and daddy Din. The Acolyte has nothing to interest women who aren't already into Star Wars and very little for them either.

(sTaR WaRs iS fOr kiDs)... then I see a naked dude who says "its been awhile since you held one in your hands. How does it feel?" And I raise an eyebrow. Thanks for laying this out. Internal consistency and understandable motivations are so important to my enjoyment of television. This show often leaves me exasperated. I may be able to endure it better, now that I understand that the emotional chaos is supposed to be a feature rather than a bug.

You have such a calming, inviting voice. Do you do audiobooks? Whatever the silliness around The Acolyte, a great thing about it is that it's made me aware of such a wide variety of channels-- many that would never have popped into my feed-- that are a pleasure to listen to.

I've said many times since about 2010 that I feel like modern entertainment is just low quality fanfiction that someone used their connections to get produced into media. Thanks for the great video.

Well said. I found every point you made agreeable. There's so many issues with this project that make its existence a disservice to the name Star Wars. I want to feel optimistic, but Lucasfilm said this was ok to be released.

I love your critiques and your personality, fifer/catwoman clips are a great addition to your online presence I want more! look forward to your next video

Leslye talks the way Tribbles dribble onto Kirk's head

Didn't Leslye work with a *apist and not tell on him? Are Disney lawyers awaiting this very comment? I'm I nuts or are folk avoiding obvious psycho connections? Love to all Catwomen.

An avalanche of small toys, falling out of a pinata!!! Omg, THANK YOU for that absolutely hilarious and accurate simile of Ms Headland's speech! You have NO idea how hard I laughed at that! Your wit is priceless!

your content is great, keep it up

I do agree with you. I only watched the first three episodes. I am a big Star Wars fan, but omg, I cannot stand the Acolyte.

7:57 "We're so much further back from that" The absolute gall of this hack to claim she was a Star Wars fan. 100 years back from the start of the prequels is NOT far back at all in the galactic timeline. Also if she wanted to distance herself from the prequels she wouldn't have put Ki-Adi-Mundi in Episode 4. Lying, duplicitous, malicious, egotistical... I hate Rian Johnson's guts, but at least he had the good graces to tell me that the rage I felt was what he expected at least half his audience to feel, not gaslight me into thinking I was in the wrong about The Last Jedi. Leslie Headland makes him look like a saint by comparison.

I can see her as the personal assistant to that monster with her creepy personality. She doesn't see good and evil as two opposite of morality but as something that can easily change according to her feelings and circumstances i.e if it suits her and her aim, objective and gain. She's not someone that should be allowed near SW!

Faster click than a Millenium Falcon passing through Kessel Run. Thank you for posting. Your videos are art

Awesome review. The worst part is that probably these last 2 episodes won't be that good. Episode 7 will be another flashback, adn episode 8 will close the "Good twin become bad and bad twin become good."

100 years isn't that far back as far as the Jedi go.

What pains me is not the people defending this piece of crap just because it's "inclusive" or whatever lie they tell themselves, I know they have to just to be contrarians, it's their nature. But the people who actually think this is a good script. Like, hopefully someday they can watch a genuinely good show, get educated and understand how many levels of wrong this show has...

The writing on your series here is 100x better than the writing on the Acolyte.

Omg thank you so much for putting so much effort into this! I am so grateful to see this episode put into real context about what’s happening here and spoken about with the seriousness it deserves, but not without effective and appropriately placed humor 😂 I get that it’s funny to make jokes about the absurdity of this situation in Star Wars (I have also enjoyed many a video making fun of the episode), but the real implications of all of this are just so chilling. It would be one thing if osha was afraid, like ANY woman would be, or if Headland seemed to understand what a truly nightmarish scenario her character was in. Or if this was a fanfic turned movie specifically for adults who can delineate between potentially problematic fantasy relationship dynamics which can have sex appeal and appropriate behavior and/or healthy relationship dynamics. But all the context together is just…oof. You do such a good job of balancing humor and real commentary, not just here but also in your other videos, which I think is something we all enjoyed about Lucas’s Star Wars to begin with. I so appreciate the time and emotional effort you put into all of this ❤ And the Michelle Pfeifer clips were the icing on the cake.

There was 'the rule of two' in the old books, before Disney .. That is how the sith where created. A master and apprentice .. The theory is that with each generation, they will become stronger in the mean time the jedi are stagnant.

You know, I never thought I'd say this, but I'm looking back at the sequels (And all the other bad Disney SW stuff) and realized that while my opinions of them have not changed, I will give them credit for having some semblance of okay-to-good morality. They didn't usually teach good lessons, and almost never taught them effectively, but they didn't teach actively bad moral lessons

Headland sounds like the kind of person who writes steamy letters to Death Row inmates.

Headland is seriously insane

She's said things like " Nobody's total evil and graying the line between good and evil". How many young actresses did she set up to meet Harvey? How many of his messes did she clean up? She wanted the money, so she told herself those lies .Now she wants others to think that way too. It probably lessens her guilt.

You’re really providing a type of therapy that is helping me cope with the destruction of my second most important reality.

Write what you know - in this case 'unconscious actresses'.

I always figured it was Amy Poehler behind the writing for Russian Doll. She's genuinely talented and hilarious. Leyslie wishes she had a fraction of the talent.

i'm very impressed with your VoiceOver. I was a media producer for 10 years and hired many video actors. Your voice is really quite good. Ironically I saw your previous videos and maybe it's just the fact that you have a better mic or maybe it's because I don't see you. whatever the reason, I was blown away by this video. Your analysis was extraordinarily good, like reading Dorothy Parker. If this particular video doesn't go viral, please, keep this format. It really showcases the excellence of your writing and your voice over.

This is one of those pieces of media that's going to send shivers down your spine when Leslye is inevitably implicated for her role in Weinstein's debauchery

It’s always a good week when mom posts another Acolyte critique ❤

Shoot! I didn't hear the part from her where she's going full on Left Hand Path in such a blunt and direct way. Wow! That is unnerving. I thought I had solid reasons of geekdom and self-respecting indie author not to give the show more time than I would watch on RU-vid, but that's a whole other rancid ball of wax by itself. Just...wow! So much to say about that, and it all sounds unhinged when I sound it out in my head.

This is far more interesting and rich content than the show itself

I'm new to your channel, and I absolutely love it.

she uses the word "predatory gaze" in the script, absolutely creepy

So glad to have found your channel, you're funny as hell.

Admitting u rewrote this and decided to goes in the real issues great job for real

You know you messed up when Reylo starts making sense.

fantastic, cogent dissection of the troubled mind behind a terrible show. it’s also clear that headland had no interest in hiring anyone for the writing room who had an iota of experience, to keep her own persona in its safe space.

Mid 40s man child and father of two real children under 5. Subbed in the first minute 👌

Today, the algorithm put a real gem in my feed. I hope to see more of your commentary in the future! Very nicely done.

Please do a breakdown when the season ends. I found your insight on the Acolyte to be the most well thought out interesting, presenting ideas that I hadn’t thought of before but instantly made perfect sense. You have a knack for it and a new subscriber.

Hedland’s interviews strike me as someone who has been promoted so far up without any merit that she doesn’t really have to think or do anything specific, yet still thinks they deserve the status of their unearned position.

Good job spotting the real talent behind RD. Amy Poehler is a boss.

Okay so as a middle aged man I really love your content! I remember being a little kid and seeing Return of the Jedi in the theater. As a young boy it was SOOO thrilling. I've gotten such a kick out of the online reviews of this hot garbage! I found you recently and agree 1000%. LessLee Headband is just AWFUL! You can tell from her interviews this is a woman you don't want to be around. She gives me complete AWKWARD vibes. Like in a meeting she'd blurt out something completely inappropriate. And she'd be an HR nightmare. Regardless. This show. Why the overt sexuality? How can you possibly sell any merch(I'm thinking actual kids toys) What kid would watch this? Star Wars has always been GOOD v EVIL with good acting-ish GREAT story, and SPACE BATTLES!!! But somehow this show is a mess top to bottom. Clunky writing wooden acting and these constant awkward themes that just make me cringe. Examples: the weird chipmunk thing, the coven that was made of ROCK and burned down, space fires, and now we get 50 shades of Osha? I can see it now....Acolyte Lightsaber vibrators and I just don't want that in a franchise that was pure and wholesome. Kathleen Kennedy and LessLee Headband ;) should be REMOVED from any future StarWars IP. Get someone who likes the world and isn't writing a high-school play complete with a high school cast. I'm mad that someone defaced a franchise I loved. Am I allowed to feel like that or does that make me a phone or ist?

I’m so glad you are covering this as seemingly straight males are not allowed to criticize it in anyway. The lightsaber fights, Sol and Qimir are pretty good but Mae and Osha are all over the place. How was Headland given a blank check for this?

I came. I saw. I liked. I commented.

I can't watch the show anymore, but I can watch your video criticism. *chef kiss*

When she puts on the Smile NO helmet I was expecting a chorus of Baby shark to play

It's really disturbing that Disney allowed this show to be written & produced. Shows have always been rewritten, recast, people fired even if shows had been started. What made Leslye so untouchable that Disney and Filoni couldn't change it?

Honestly great actors end up suffering so many of these terrible films and TV and adding emotion that isn't supported by the script. Because they have to do something to communicate the character. And I value the actor's work but hate the terrible writing.

The Acolyte is Leslie's (Harvey's assistant) therapy session in a screenplay.

I really like your videos. Your killing it! I get a different insight from your videos than I'm normally used to, so I appreciate it. I can see the similarities and differences and respect both even if I disagree. Your also entertaining! Glad I stumbled across your channel.

Another great video with good arguments, research, script and voiceover about the perverts at Lucasfilm.

"He eliminates a whole flock of jedi" This is the one thing that has annoyed me about starwars since the first movie: jedi have "the force", they are masters of the light saber, they can sense things, they are super special elite, yet they are killed by the truckload.

I don’t feel like we’d agree on much for one I don’t like the use of glasses as props (though I do understand it, branding)… but I agree that Acolyte, and a lot of other modern writing, is bad. 5:54 oh my gosh… she actually planned this contrived mess. Reylo for the mess that that was actually had chemistry. That was the one moment in The Force Awakens that poor Daisy Ridley looked like she was genuinely into anything that was happening. But this time it is really contrived and it is fanfic juvenile fanfic I wrote that story too in high-school as well, but I don’t think it’s awesome!

That's what I said too, he's a murderer but hot and that makes it OK? And "they" is a murderer too, killing Jedi and space lesbian witches.,but all just misunderstood, some kids' story

The force is nude....

Wow, I thought you did great content just sitting there. Beautiful use of clips! Great show, and even better insight! Also am looking forward to that stream you'll hopefully do in the future with chato. Good man and you guys share some of the same sharp wit.

Expert analysis. Thank you for that!

Cat ladies thirsting for light saber phallus innuendo is doing cat ladies a disservice I would think. Now if Qimir has a pet then you might be talking haha. Pet trap AND a thirst trap for ladies of a certain disposition. This episode was certainly uncomfortable in places and the comic "inserts" are done so horribly I'm willing to forgive Jar Jar. Even the numb tongue scene. The murderer Mae getting squirted Mr Bean style was possibly the most cringe scene I've ever seen in Star Wars.

Best review of an Acolyte episode that I have seen.

The acolyte is the unholy offspring of twilight and the CW shows man

Your critiques are funny and pertinent, and they always leave a lasting impression. I wish you the best of luck with your channel!

Absolutely loving these well researched and well structured critiques of the Acolyte, keep them coming! I can't wait to see how many it takes before they blame you by name alongside the Critical Drinker and Nerdrotic for why Star Wars is careening downhill.

It's not cat ladys, it's the Disney channel original movies teens. The kids that love "descendants", "zombies" and " high school musical" descartable media that does not stand the test of time

I think Disney needs to hire you!

Not sure if you’ve noticed, but watch Headland’s interviews. If she’s within touching distance of the person she’s talking to, she’ll likely reach out and touch them, usually on the arm. Her apparent lack of respect for personal space has always bothered me, but it’s so on brand for her. As for the show, I won’t offer any input, I stopped watching Disney Star Wars years ago. I can’t remember what the names of the new movies are, saw the first one in the theater, thought it was disjointed but had potential. I then proceeded to fall asleep, in the theater, in the second one, that was the end for me. I still don’t know what the Snokes character was there for. They were all over that character then, poof, gone without it even being difficult. Oddly I just read the Wikipedia page for the character, this prompted me to wonder again, and it reads like “he did this”, “he did that”, which is one of my core issues with stories, they’re just an endless series of “I did this, “then I did that”, “and then i”. Frodo walked out of the Shire. Frodo met friends. He then ran around on an adventure. The wizard died. They fought the bad guys. The end. Zzzzzzzzz

You're quickly becoming one of my favorite reviewers! Definitly subscribing for more

As an on-again, off-again writer, the fact this show is playing into the "Oh no, he's hot!" thirst trap corruption idiocy drives me up the wall. How the hell did this tumblr-tier slashfic nonsense of a script get approved?! The usage of this trope is only believable if the corruption is played out over time, not in the matter of a single day. Perhaps he's manipulating Osha through psychological shenanigans, but the way the writing is so slapdash gives us zero indication this is the case. Additionally, 'enemies to lovers' only really works when the enemies have an established history/common goal/literally something that connects them. Osha and Qimir have... they both washed out of the Jedi Order? That... isn't a unique connection at all, and definitely not something would normally cause a 'spark' that would make 'enemies to lovers' make sense. 3:20 Ah yes, Cortosis, the metal that -focuses the Force- has absolutely zero effect on the Force even in Disney's own canon version of the metal (otherwise Anakin Skywalker, the first person to deal with it in Disney's canon, would've noticed the effects on the Force when he encountered it in the Uknown Regions). The fact the writers took a metal that was known to the lore nerds and managed to screw it up is frankly infuriating. Doubly so since *unlike* with the Star Wars EU, where we had G-Canon (Lucas's films/projects), Book-Canon, and then Video game canon in terms of which held more weight in discussions, Disney's letting Acolyte's writers contradict _Disney SW lore_ because every piece of canon in Disney Star Wars holds equal weight.

If you have to tear down others to build yourself up, you’ve already lost.

At this point, it no longer feels to me like there is such a thing as the "repressed woman". Everyone has now given them their chance (at Star Wars), and they failed miserably. I'd rather have "regular woman" work on Star Wars from here on out. But that would require the removal of Kathleen Kennedy.

6:25 😂😂😂 I had the same thought! It was Amy & Natasha! 👏 7:05 Her just ✨️ FAKE IT UNTIL YOU MAKE IT! ✨️ is so insulting to serious writers, directors and producers everywhere. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ She's a 🤡 that thinks she's reclaiming something and being an honest badass by admittedly saying she HAD and HAS NO idea what she's doing. Yup, sounds about right! And it looks like she didn't learn anything between filming The Crapolyte and now, even! So when will she learn? I hope Hollywood doesn't give her another $1 to make a giant underwhelming pile of doo doo. Why is it that most people need to work their way up but some are handed enormous amounts of money to learn along the way. Where the hell do I get a gig like that? Sounds sweet! 😂

when films listen to the fans hooray! when lone wolfs dont care about the story & hire anyone eek!

I'm beginning to wonder if headlamp did have a thing for Weinstein after all ...

46 seconds in and I already dig you

I love hearing your thoughts on the show and I’m really interested to hear your thoughts on more stories, good, bad or indifferent. Wouldn’t need to be just tv shows or movies either, book reviews would be neat too.

Best channel on RU-vid

BRAVO!!! BRAVO!!! what an analysis!!!

Agree with you and everyone here. Just want to add that your choices and editing of the background video were great! Was so hoping that you didn't cut off Michelle's line, and was not disappointed! ;)