If The Walt Disney Company and Lucasfilm thought their audience scores could get any worse following the first two episodes of the show, they received a rude awakening as the show’s audience scores across multiple aggregators has sharply fallen.
Mother Aniseya (Jodie Turner-Smith) in Lucasfilm’s THE ACOLYTE, season one, exclusively on Disney+. ©2024 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved.
Following the release of the first two episodes, the audience score on Rotten Tomatoes sat at 32% with an average rating of 2.1 out of 5.
Star Wars: The Acolyte Rotten Tomatoes scores
That score has now fallen to 20% with an average rating of 1.5 out of 5. Even the critic score has declined from 93% to 85%.
Star Wars: The Acolyte Rotten Tomatoes scores
On IMDb the score initially sat at a 5.1 out of 10 albeit the unweighted mean was 4.4 and the plurality of votes were a 1 out of 10.
The Acolyte review scores on IMDb
The score has now fallen to 4.0 out of 10 with the unweighted mean a 3.5 out of 10. Almost a majority of all reviews are a 1 out of 10 as well.
The Acolyte review scores on IMDb
If you look at the reviews per episode, it clearly shows that viewers did not like the third episode. The first episode received a 5.8. The second episode received a 5.6. However, the third episode received a 3.7.
Of note, the third episode has also received less reviews indicating that a number of people tuned out of the show following the first two episodes and chose to not even watch the third episode. The number of reviews between the first and third episode declined by nearly 32%.
The Acolyte review scores on IMDb per episode
The only site where the score has not changed is on Metacritic. It still sits at a 4.1. It initially had 100 positive reviews, 19 mixed reviews, and 166 negative reviews.
The Acolyte User Score on Metacritic
The series still has a User Score of 4.1 but there are now 354 positive reviews, 61 mixed reviews, and 599 negative reviews.
The Acolyte User Score on Metacritic
These negative reactions come in the wake of an extremely soft opening debut as far as viewership. Data analytics company Luminate reported that the first two episodes only garnered 210 million minutes watched in the United States between May 31st and June 6th.
For comparison, according to Nielsen, Ahsoka’s two-episode premiere brought in 829 million minutes viewed when it premiered last year.
Nielsen “Overall” Streaming Ratings for the week of August 21 to August 27, 2023
In fact, The Walt Disney Company even released data claiming The Acolyte only garnered 4.8 million views in its first day and just 11.1 million views globally after five days of streaming. The company measures a view by total stream time divided by runtime. Given that The Acolyte’s total runtime was 73 minutes and 55 seconds the total global minutes viewed was around 820 million minutes.
That’s correct. Ahsoka had more minutes viewed in the United States compared to The Acolyte’s entire global minutes viewed. The show is an unmitigated disaster.
Financial analyst Valliant Renegade aptly describes the show’s viewership as an “absolute trash fire.
What do you make of audience scores getting even worse for The Acolyte?
