The Acolyte

The budget was just massive on this thing.

Nielsen Ratings July 15 – July 21, 2024​

The Nielsen ratings for the week the season finale was released, July 15 – July 21 reveal The Acolyte came in at #10 with 335 minutes (millions).

Previous weeks were under that number, so we see it got a slight jump as likely more people binged some episodes along with the season finale.

However, again, The Acolyte is the lowest season finale for a Star Wars show on Disney+, so that’s not really saying much.

Star Wars Season finale ratings on Disney+​

Comparing the numbers to the other Star Wars season finales on Disney+, we also see it’s the lowest by a pretty large margin:

• Ahsoka: 575
• Andor: 674
• Obi-Wan: 860
• Boba Fett: 885
• The Mandalorian Season 3: 1012
• Mando S2: 1336

Star Wars Disney+ Nielsen numbers​

Thanks to a Redditor, we also have some charts, which shows how badly The Acolyte has performed compared to the other Star Wars shows:

I love the numbers on this vs. Cobra Kai, that probably cost 1/10th the budget.

Bubbles said:

that was just a tranny the dyke showrunner knew and who needed a job

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They mean the Yoda fellow.

Ding dong the dyke is done!

Ya I know some "lol popcorn" (????) people here are secretly rustled.

I'm angry that the Andor season finale number above is so low. WTF

Gutterflesh said:

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I guess in their world, Just not liking something makes it get cancelled. They spent 180 million or more on this and it still wasn't finished. and they think this was quality entertainment? It was an incoherent mess, people tuned out because because it was boring, incoherent and kept breaking its own canon. They don't know how to make a simple story. That's what Star Wars was. Good vs evil. They couldn't even do that.

Qhue said:

I'm angry that the Andor season finale number above is so low. WTF

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Andor was fantastic, but it was extremely different than most Star Wars media (classic or current). You could literally strip away all Star Wars elements and it would still work in terms of a story.

It also started very slowly and dryly - I know a lot of people who didn’t stick through the initial 3 episodes

Andor also released when house of the dragon s1, the boys s3, rings of power, foundation, The Bear s1, etc was airing. it was a jam packed summer time, hopefully it picked up a lot of steam from word of mouth.

Tony Gilroy is a genius anyways, he contracted for 2 full seasons get funded before he agreed and the final moments of season 2 (filming has wrapped) tie directly into the opening of Rogue One so its a complete, done story.

Qhue said:

I'm angry that the Andor season finale number above is so low. WTF

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As others have said, serious audiences were turned off by the sci-fi trappings, and the disposable D+ show audience were turned off by the slow pace and moral ambiguity.

Add in the mediocre quality level of the other D+ entries at the time, and the very concept (a prequel show to a prequel movie) and its not shocking most people didn't jump on Andor immediately.

Andor would probably have done very well on HBO.

I wonder what the age range for Disney+ versus HBO is?

I can say, sure I heard good things about Andor... But I don't pay for any of these sub services. well, amazon prime..

Hoss said:

Literally the only thing I cared about in this show was when darth plageius showed up. Last minute of the final episode IIRC. I was hoping the wookie jedi would be cool, but that was a big fucking disappointment. I should have known as soon as I saw the manbun it was wearing.

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A hippy fucking wookie.

I bet they still don't understand why the show got cut.

Intrinsic said:

With all the pedos watching Disney+ and 40+ men with Yoda stuffed dolls out there, probably a big overlap.

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I identify with half this demographic.