Disney+ has decided not to continue with the second season of its latest series Star Wars side series, Assistant Priestjust a month after the eight-episode first season wrapped.
Created by Leslye Headland, the series was a prequel story set nearly 100 years in the past. Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace Set during the Skywalker Saga, a respected Jedi Master (Lee Jung-jae) is tasked with investigating a series of crimes that brings him into contact with his former Padawan student (Amandla Stenberg), with whom he uncovers “sinister forces” and dark secrets.
Sources told Deadline It is only known that Lucasfilm has decided not to make a second season of the prequel series.
Again Assistant Priest It has been well received by critics with an overall fresh rating of 78%. Rotten Tomatoes, Star Wars fans were unsurprisingly divided, as usual, giving it a 31% viewership rating. Viewership also took a hit as a result.
The series drew a respectable 4.8 million viewers on June 4, when its first two episodes aired, and claimed 11.1 million five days later. However, by the third week, it had fallen out of the Top 10 entirely. It briefly reappeared in #10 after the finale aired, drawing 335 million minutes watched, believed to be the lowest viewership rating for a series. Star Wars series finale.
When we think about this high-end, big-budget Disney+ Star Wars Since the series cost well over $100 million per season, a second season seemed unlikely, even considering the sunk cost fallacy.
In addition to Stenberg and Jung-jae, The Acolyte also starred Manny Jacinto, Jodie Turner-Smith, Dafne Keen, Rebecca Henderson, Charlie Barnett, Dean-Charles Chapman and Carrie-Anne Moss.