The Nielsen Streaming Charts For The Acolyte Finale

Lo and behold, after weeks of absence The Acolyte did manage to enter the Nielsen Streaming Charts for original shows with its last episode. The numbers are however nothing Lucasfilm can be happy about. In fact, the numbers are abysmal. Click through for all the details!

The series is as dead as Sol

The 8th and final Acolyte episode managed to break into the top 10 original shows streaming charts, in 10th place, with a lousy 335 million minutes. The finale was almost 47 minutes long (with credits), which will give you an idea about how bad the numbers are.

To put things in context here is my updated chart with the finale viewership numbers for all the Marvel and Star Wars shows where we have the data. Absent from this chart is Echo. All Echo episodes were dumped on the same day and the numbers were a disaster, the show was on the charts for one week. Echo is – without contest – the least watched Marvel / Star Wars series on Disney+. Its only saving grace is that it was made on the cheap for $40 million.

But where does The Acolyte fit in? How does it compare?

Here is the updated chart with The Acolyte now included!

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The Acolyte is dead last. As mentioned above Echo’s viewership is even lower, but this series can’t be compared because the show had no finale viewership numbers, all episodes were released on the same day, because Marvel and Disney decided to get it over with as quickly and painlessly as possible (they knew Echo would be a disaster).

But now this. Even Ms Marvel, the – until The Acolyte – least watched “proper” series with a weekly release schedule, beats The Acolyte.

Anyone still delusional about The Acolyte getting a season 2 should look long and hard at this chart. A $180+ million budget is good for last place. This is 58% of Ahsoka’s viewership and 27.5% of the Mandalorian S3 finale. And when we compare it to the Luke Skywalker season 2 finale it’s just 23.2%. So more than three quarters of the potential audience decided not to watch the Acolyte series finale. In short: Lucasfilm managed to lose 75% of its potential audience with this show. And the finale has some of the best numbers for The Acolyte. Episodes 4-7 had even worse numbers. So bad they never even entered the charts.

The fact that Ms Marvel has not received an order for season 2 (and yes, this show has fans too) should give Acolyte fans a hint.

And to put things in perspective some more: The Acolyte has 335 million viewing minutes. The Boys has 1,329 million and House of the Dragon 1,107 million. The Mandalorian S2 finale (the one with Luke) had 1,336 million minutes, Mandalorian S3 still 1,012 million, even Andor had 674 million minutes, which put it ahead of Ahsoka even, which, until now, had the least watched Star Wars series finale on Disney+.

And with that I hope we never need to talk about The Acolyte again.

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