***This review contains heavy spoilers through Chapter 23 of The Mandalorian*** The Mandalorian continues to raise stakes and introduce new but familiar characters, expanding an already expansive universe while driving forward the story of our central characters. After a couple of episodes which weren’t very focused on Grogu and Din, the series brought them back to the forefront in spectacular fashion with the penultimate episode of … Continue reading “The Mandalorian: Chapter 23 – The Spies” Review and Analysis

***This review contains heavy spoilers through Chapter 22 of The Mandalorian*** In what has become an unfortunate trend in all three seasons of The Mandalorian so far, a season will build momentum and pick up steam, and along comes a side mission episode to deflect some of the momentum. With only two episodes left in the season now, I would think they will have to be … Continue reading “The Mandalorian: Chapter 22 – Guns For Hire” Review and Analysis

***This review contains heavy spoilers through Chapter 21 of The Mandalorian*** Just when you think The Mandalorian is slowing down, falling into side mission purgatory, losing some of its lustre, whatever you think had been happening over the past two episodes, along comes an episode like “The Pirate” to reassure you that Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni have it all figured out. Never, ever doubt these … Continue reading “The Mandalorian: Chapter 21 – The Pirate” – Review and Analysis

***This review contains heavy spoilers through Chapter 20 of The Mandalorian*** A short but sweet episode clocking in at under 30 minutes (not including credits), “The Foundling” is filled with suspense and action, and surprisingly little exposition. It also makes use of its title to refer to a number of different people, something that is becoming somewhat of a trend for the series, and something I’m … Continue reading “The Mandalorian: Chapter 20 – The Foundling” – Review and Analysis

***This review contains heavy spoilers through Chapter 19 of The Mandalorian*** I’m a couple of days late in writing this, so have seen quite a few comments already saying “This show is called the Mandalorian so why aren’t we actually seeing him much in this episode?” Allow me to remind you that last year during the run of The Book of Boba Fett, we went basically … Continue reading “The Mandalorian: Chapter 19 – The Convert” Review and Analysis

***This review contains heavy spoilers through Chapter 18 of The Mandalorian*** At first glance, the second episode of the season may seem just like a classic “someone is in distress and needs rescuing” story, and while that is certainly true to some extent, the episode contains some potentially major implications for our characters moving forward. My first thought when the episode ended was “Man, that really … Continue reading “The Mandalorian: Chapter 18 – The Mines of Mandalore” Review and Analysis