TV Show - The Mandalorian s1 (2019) [/]
Aug 05 2020
The Mandalorian is a space western set in the Star Wars universe some years after Return of the Jedi. Season one is eight 25- to 45-minute episodes. A lone Mandalorian bounty hunter (Pedro Pascal) gets a high-paying off-the-books mission which turns out is bringing a Baby Yoda back for experimentation. But the Mandalorian becomes attached to Baby Yoda, betrays his contract and spends the rest of the season hiding and trying to find a way defeat the Client (Werner Herzog) who is determined to acquire Baby Yoda.
It's a lot of live action and fairly good special effects (though if you pay attention you can see the quality upgrade from spending $40m for 2 hours of television versus $275m for The Rise of Skywalker). There is that problem of making a Mandalorian in heavy armor look like a bad-ass close quarters fighter, which does not quite work here.
But aside from those things the episodes are pretty good and mostly self-contained. There is a variety of locations and characters. There is a stop at Mos Eisley for an episode. There is a Spaghetti Western feel at times. It's a good series but not compelling and not as good as the hype.
It's a lot of live action and fairly good special effects (though if you pay attention you can see the quality upgrade from spending $40m for 2 hours of television versus $275m for The Rise of Skywalker). There is that problem of making a Mandalorian in heavy armor look like a bad-ass close quarters fighter, which does not quite work here.
But aside from those things the episodes are pretty good and mostly self-contained. There is a variety of locations and characters. There is a stop at Mos Eisley for an episode. There is a Spaghetti Western feel at times. It's a good series but not compelling and not as good as the hype.