Disney Plus has reportedly canceled season two of the “Star Wars” TV series “The Acolyte” after the show’s showrunner promised to fill it will woke themes and leftist propaganda.
The show, created by showrunner Leslye Headland, was canceled after just one season amid low ratings.
Sources told Deadline that Lucasfilm has opted out of a second season for the female-centric, Sith-focused series.
The eight-part series launched on June 4.
After scoring numerous glowing headlines from corporate media outlets, the show’s first two episodes enjoyed a strong opening with 4.8 million views on its first day on the streamer.
However, it struggled with lukewarm reviews and poor ratings when audiences actually watched the show.
The series quickly fell out of the top ten by the third week, the outlet noted.
It remained out of the top ten until the finale when it finally cracked into the 10th spot.
The show’s finale was viewed for a total of 335 million minutes.
However, the figure is believed to be the lowest ever for a “Star Wars” series finale, the outlet noted.
Headland had previously talked about how her new series wasn’t going to be like what fans have enjoyed in other “Star Wars” shows like “The Mandalorian” or “Andor.”
The director said her new series looked “at the Jedi as an institution, as a concept, as an entity that has amassed a lot of power.
“And that’s good, I’m not saying that’s wrong.”
“I think you’re seeing the Jedi when they are this very, very large institution – a benevolent one – but they are closer to who they are in the ‘Phantom Menace’ than obviously in the Original Trilogy where you feel like they’re almost extinct,” the director added.
“In a weird way, in the ‘Phantom Menace’ and the Prequel Trilogy, the Jedi outnumber the Sith,” Headland continued.
“And then in the Original Trilogy, the Empire outnumbered the Jedi, which is why a show based on the ‘bad guys’ is interesting to me.
“In that era, what does the underdog look like?
“Even if they’re the bad guy.”
Before the series aired, Headland said that her “Star Wars” series would infused with leftist propaganda.
Headland gloated that “The Acolyte” was “coded queer” like the movie “Frozen” to push LGBTQ themes onto younger audiences.
“When I saw Frozen as a grown a** woman, I cried through the entire movie,” she said at the time.
“There was just something about the relationship between the sisters, the like devillainization of the classic kind of fairy tale ‘bad guy,’ you know, the concept of true love being between two sisters and not a heterosexual relationship.
“It just destroyed me, completely.”
She continued, “And I thought, ‘Gosh, I would love to make something like this, for lack of a better term, Disney.’
“Meaning something that like my parents would have allowed me to see when I was younger as a queer person, but I would have been able to understand as a queer person.
“And I think I would have had a completely different life.
“And so I really was inspired by it and was like, ‘God, I would love to make a story like this.’”
In 2021, Headland spoke to The Advocate about creating “The Acolyte” with a “queer lens.”
She admitted to fully intending “to allow her own personal experiences as a queer woman shine through in the finished product.”
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