“The Mandalorian” Articles

Both the Western and Star Wars imagine a world where character must be forged and not assumed, where goodness is real, but never cheap.

The people at Lucasfilm squeezed the epilogue of The Mandalorian’s second season into The Book of Boba Fett’s first.

Our team highlights their favorite TV shows from 2020 that managed to break through the dark days and deliver a bit of goodness.

In the untrained hands of one so powerful as Grogu, the Force is a recipe for calamity.

Wade is joined by Steve Norton of ScreenFish.net to discuss Nomadland, the new film from Chloé Zhao, and The Mandalorian Season 2.

We’ve had to do what we’ve had to do, which meant saying goodbye, for a time, to the good things—even some of the sacred things—in order to survive.

This episode did for Boba Fett what Rogue One did for Darth Vader.

My favorite idea of any Star War is when that dusty old Jedi teaching is shredded and burned to the ground.

And so it came to pass that in one fell swoop, the showrunners connected The Mandalorian to the worst ideas of the prequel and sequel trilogies.

Even if your inward-facing, self-replicating church—or Mandalorian group, for that matter—never becomes a cult, in my experience, it can (and does) start to get weird.

Look, I’m not a youth pastor, but if I were, I would tell you teens that just as the wages of sin is death, the wages of eating a Frog Lady’s eggs means getting eaten alive by a thousand baby space spiders.

But The Mandalorian also really really wants to delight and tickle its Star Wars fanbase. To a fault.

Stories that follow patterns like this show us that no one is really nonessential—they give us a sense that although the world is big, every person is important, no matter their birth, status, role, or function.