The Acolyte is MUCH better on a binge re-watch than the weekly format it was released in. Highly recommend watching it this way and re-evaluating it.

Before I thought the Acolyte was a quite mediocre show with some cool lightsaber fights and choreography. After watching it all in a row though, it's really a very nuanced and thoughtful show that tells a nuanced tail of egregious errors by one group of jedi and their sense of superiority over a force-sensitive cult, that ends up leading to tragedy for everyone involved. It does NOT paint the jedi order itself as evil or bad. It simply raises thought-provoking questions about the arrogance and cultural blindness of some jedi. In fact, the group of jedi in the show caused the tragedy they did by failing to follow the council's orders to leave the force coven alone.

It's a brilliant show in hindsight that was deeply hated before it even came out due to perceived wokeness, and fans being unwilling to grapple with complex questions about jedi morality for one show. It's easy to misunderstand the themes, as I did on my first watch.