THIS POST CONTAINS spoilers for this week’s episode of The Mandalorian, “The Return.” A funny thing happens in the last 10 minutes of The Mandalorian Season Three: Din Djarin seems to be the central character again. Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni, and company spent much of this season treating the show’s …
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THIS POST CONTAINS spoilers for this week’s episode of The Mandalorian, “Guns for Hire.” Well, that was a mostly welcome change of pace. In a broad sense, “Guns for Hire” fits the Mission of the Week mode that The Mandalorian does so well, but it does it in a couple …
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THIS POST CONTAINS spoilers for this week’s episode of The Mandalorian, “The Pirate.” The Mandalorian is a show that likes to keep things simple whenever possible. And it’s hard to imagine a more fundamentally simple story than “heroes rescue community under siege by pirates.” It’s a framework the show has …
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THIS POST CONTAINS spoilers for this week’s episode of The Mandalorian, “The Foundling.” After a very long, off-format, and seemingly divisive episode last week focusing on the extremely minor character Dr. Pershing, The Mandalorian goes extremely back to basics with the Carl Weathers-directed “The Foundling.” The show clocks in at …
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THIS POST CONTAINS spoilers for this week’s episode of The Mandalorian, “The Convert.” Among the more exciting aspects of Andor was the way it proved that Star Wars could go in a very different tonal and thematic direction and still find success. It was Star Wars aiming for something more …
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