Deadline is reporting that Disney Star Wars said no to season 2 of ‘The Acolyte’. We have a couple of things to say about that. First? Thank goodness. The show was awful. Second? The numbers must have been abysmal. We’re never going to be privy to the actual number of views, but it must have been just shockingly low. Again: Good.

It gives me a little bit of faith in the viewing audience that they rejected this trainwreck of a show. It’s heartening to think that you can’t just slap Star Wars on the name and have a hit. The failure of The Acolyte proves those days are over. Disney Star Wars came out with a really bad movie trilogy and the Star Wars brand was just enough to get it over the finish line. They could pretend it was good. We all knew it wasn’t, but the press could be brought in to help with the gaslighting of the casual fan. But even the shills and press couldn’t save ‘The Acolyte’. It was garbage and there was no hiding it. It was the turd that couldn’t be polished.

And I also want to say this: I can see why Disney Star Wars said yes to The Acolyte. There is good idea there. The premise is strong enough: A secret society of space witches use the force to create life and a Jedi who’s being torn between light and dark, decides to kill them all, while a Sith lord wants to learn the witches secret so he can bend their power to his own evil schemes? Yeah. I’d watch that.

But the devil is in the details. The Acolyte didn’t deliver on any level. Zero. The scripts were bad. The choices of performances were bad. The show looked bad. The music was bad. Every element of The Acolyte was bad. And it STILL got a 78% from ‘Critics’ on Rotten Tomatoes. That’s a scary high number. They were either so stupid, they thought the show was okay or they were paid off to pretend to like it. Either way, the gaslighting is scary. I guess it’s good journos only lie about TV shows and not important stuff like politics.