May the force be with Lizzo! On Thursday, the singer celebrated her cameo in the recent Mandalorian episode and dedicated her appearance to her late father, who first introduced her to the Star Wars franchise. “When I was a young girl my dad introduced me to Star Wars like a …
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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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How much time do you have to spend around blood-thirsty and flesh-eating creatures on set before they start to rub off on you? Asking for Pedro Pascal, who developed gnarly supernatural desires while progressing through hotter and hotter chicken wings on Hot Ones. The Last of Us star was unfazed …
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THIS POST CONTAINS spoilers for this week’s episode of The Mandalorian, “The Mines of Mandalore.” After last week’s premiere suggested that a good chunk of this season would involve Mando going on various side quests in order to eventually win his way back into the Watch’s good graces, “The Mines …
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THIS POST CONTAINS spoilers for this week’s episode of The Mandalorian, “The Apostate.” A strange thing happens at the start of The Mandalorian Season Three. We open, of course, with a montage of events from previous seasons that will be relevant to what’s about to happen. So we are reminded …
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Star Wars revealed a host of new trailers Saturday as part of their D23 Expo showcase, with Disney+ offering up the latest preview for Andor as well as the first look at Season 3 of The Mandalorian. Andor revolves around the character of Cassian Andor, the rebel agent at the …
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This review contains spoilers for the first two episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi, now streaming on Disney+. “I’m not who I used to be,” Obi-Wan Kenobi tells Bail Organa late in the first episode of Obi-Wan’s self-titled Disney+ series. It is 10 years after the events of the third Star Wars …
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