Director: Leslye Headland
Long before the Empire, the High Republic was already cracking under the weight of secrets it refused to name. The Acolyte digs into that quiet decay, following a former Jedi pulled back into a mystery she thought she'd buried.
What is The Acolyte about?
A string of unexplained deaths pulls the Jedi Order's attention toward Osha, a woman with a complicated past tied directly to the Order she once left behind. As she's drawn back into investigating what's really happening, old wounds resurface — a childhood tragedy, a broken trust, a twin whose choices sit on the opposite side of the fight. The series moves between present-day investigation and flashes of the past that slowly explain why Osha and the Jedi view each other with such caution. Rather than framing its conflict as a simple battle of light against dark, the show spends time on the compromises the Jedi themselves have made and the cost those choices carry decades later. Set generations before the saga's more familiar chapters, it uses a period defined by relative peace to ask what happens when the people meant to keep that peace stop being honest with each other.
Cast & crew
Amandla Stenberg leads the series, with Lee Jung-jae, Charlie Barnett, Dafne Keen, Manny Jacinto, Rebecca Henderson and Joonas Suotamo filling out a cast of Jedi, outsiders and figures whose loyalties shift as the mystery deepens.
Context & significance
Created by Leslye Headland, The Acolyte is set in the final years of the High Republic era, a period the wider saga has largely treated as a golden age for the Jedi. By setting a murder-mystery structure against that backdrop, the series questions how solid that golden age really was, long before the galaxy's more familiar conflicts began.
Where & how to watch
The Acolyte streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so viewers can follow its mystery either dubbed into Farsi or with Farsi text alongside the original dialogue. A free K-Time account and login are all that's required to watch; the page itself is open to read without signing in, and the platform's interface is built in Farsi for Persian-speaking audiences.