What is The Acolyte about in Star Wars?

The Acolyte has finally arrived on Disney+, with a two-episode premiere that follows a shocking crime spree pitting a respected Jedi Master against a dangerous warrior seeking revenge.

The so-called correct order of watching the Star Wars franchise has been a source of heated debate among fans for decades.

Do you watch everything in the order of their release dates, starting with the originals, then the prequels and finally the sequels?

Or do you watch chronologically, starting with Anakin Skywalker’s downfall through Luke Skywalker’s hopeful defeat of the Empire and on to the most recent trilogy?

Or perhaps the “flashback order” that crams parts one, two and three in between parts five and six.

However you plan to do it, things are about to get more complicated thanks to “The Acolyte,” a new Star Wars TV series that launches on Disney+ on Tuesday. The hook? It takes place before anything we’ve seen in Star Wars live-action history. “Star Wars: The Phantom Menace” (1999) is no longer the beginning of it all. “The Acolyte” is. It’s a prequel of a prequel.

The eight-episode series revolves around the hunt for an assassin who is creeping her way across a galaxy far, far away with the intent to kill a specific set of Jedi.

To make things worse, this assassin may have ties to the Sith, the dark-side enthusiasts who have been dead supposedly for a millennium.

The show is filled with the general Star Wars tropes — lightsaber battles, bar fights, and philosophical questions about the Force.

However, it also shuffles the deck of the general idea of Star Wars to begin with.

Since The Acolyte happened decades before The Phantom Menace, it stretched Star Wars further away from being mainly a family story about Skywalkers and their part in saving the galaxy.

Along with newer instalments in the Star Wars — “Rogue One,” “Andor,” and “The Mandalorian” — The Acolyte deepens a saga containing a galaxy’s worth of heroes and villains.