Many readers have been asking me about my take on the latest Disney show by Harvey Weinstein’s former personal assistant Leslye Headland – The Acolyte. I checked out of Star Wars quite a few years ago, so I’m not up to date on all the Disney debacles.
Regular readers may remember my 2022 shout out to Force of Light Entertainment, a terrific YT channel by two sisters named Michelle and Natalie. Michelle (who has a PhD by the way) has kept current with the IP and skillfully dissects The Acolyte through its first three episodes.
This pathetic series is apparently every bit as horrible as we’ve heard, but Michelle is much less sarcastic than I am when I write reviews, so her approach may be more appealing. Below is her take on the first two Acolyte episodes, but for Michelle’s review of the execrable third episode AND to subscribe to the channel Force of Light Entertainment, click HERE.
PART TWENTY: In a surprising development Balladeer’s Blog was contacted by THE actual Fool Killer. Using Jimmy Neutron-level science I determined that this correspondent was indeed the actual supernatural figure who had been at large in America since the 1830s. 
Coming to you as I wander in search of fools to kill, as usual a murder of crows following in my wake to feast upon the ample corpses I leave behind me in my travels.
AFTER LONDON aka WILD ENGLAND (1885) – Written by Richard Jefferies. A post-apocalypse saga in which the shifting of the Earth’s axis has reduced the British Isles to a medieval level with feral animals and pockets of toxic wasteland. There are scattered “kingdoms” and roving bands of marauders but no contact with the world outside the area. 
The Thames and Severn Rivers have backed up, forming a large central lake in England. What was once London is a toxic marsh so deadly to human life that its gases and vapors, when carried by the winds, kill or drive mad humans exposed to them. 
THURSDAY’S GAME (1972, 1974) – Completed in 1972 and intended for theaters, this film sat on the shelf and was ultimately reedited as a made for tv movie complete with those fades to black going into commercial breaks. Thursday’s Game isn’t bad, but it will work best for viewers of a certain age or young trivia buffs who will appreciate all the incredible tv stars from the time period. 
Gene Wilder and Bob Newhart star as Harry Evers and Marvin Ellison, respectively. Harry is the producer of a poorly rated daytime gameshow, while Marvin is a clothier needing a hot new fashion idea to save his company. 
INDIANA WANTS THEM – The INDIANA FEVER (3-9) took it on the road against the WASHINGTON MYSTICS (0-11).
This weekend’s light-hearted, escapist superhero post from Balladeer’s Blog looks at licensed I.P. Rom the Spaceknight’s crossovers with Marvel Comics characters. 
ROM Vol 1 #5 (April 1980) 
PART FOUR – We pick up this time with Trader Horn’s reflection on how the British and German firms in Africa dominated the European trade in ivory and rubber, while France was a distant third. There were whispers that the French (whom Horn referred to far more insultingly than he ever referred to the indigenous Africans) were strategizing about using their Colonial Governments to limit the success of Great Britain and the German Empire wherever they could. 
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