Breaking Down the Dark Shadows Rising in The Acolyte's New Trailer

Our latest big look at the next Star Wars TV series reveals mysteries, murder, and some very intriguing masks.

To celebrate Star Wars Day this past weekend, Lucasfilm treated us all to one more major look at The Acolyte, the next live-action Disney+ series for the galaxy far, far away—one that in equal measure surprises us with a bunch of new tidbits about this new murder mystery among the rise of the dark side, and potently reminds us that looks can be deceiving. Here’s a few of the more intriguing things we noticed.

One small but important part of the High Republic setting explored throughout the transmedia initiative has been the idea of a still nascent level of galactic travel and communication—although much of the books and comics we’ve read are set about another 100 years or more before The Acolyte, in them we saw things like the importance of mapping out safe hyperspace routes, the expansion of the Republic’s borders, and even the establishment of interstellar comms networks.

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