Main cast: Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian), Katee Sackhoff (Bo-Katan Kryze), Simon Kassianides (Axe Woves), Mercedes Varnado (Koska Reeves), Jack Black (Captain Bombardier), Lizzo (The Duchess), Christopher Lloyd (Commissioner Helgait), Brendan Wayne (Mandalorian Warrior), and Lateef Crowder (Mandalorian Warrior)
Director: Bryce Dallas Howard
Oh god, this show is such a waste of time now. How many episodes more are there in this season, and do they even have a story to tell in the next few episodes?
If there’s a story here, I sure can’t see it.
Now, the second season of The Mandalorian was a pretty aimless mess, but there were standalone episodes with some pretty decent action and story, so that season wasn’t that bad. This one, though, is just one filler episode after another, each one incomplete and the elements brought up in them are quickly forgotten and rarely touched on again in the following episode.
Yes, the second season also saw Mandy shoved to the sideline for whatever strong female character the show was infatuated with at that moment, but at least those characters seemed to have a place and purpose. Here and now, Mandy is just tagging along with Bo-Katty as she too seems to have no idea where she is going or what she is doing.
What is happening? Jon Favreau is still credited as the screenwriter, so what is going on? Is he forced to do this season when he really didn’t want to, hence his determination to go out with guns blazing—guns blazing after shooting down the show completely, that is? Is he alright? Someone please check to make sure that his desiccated corpse is not stashed away in Kathleen Kennedy’s basement.
Anyway, Bo-Katty and Mandy look for her old gang, who are now mercenaries for hire. They end up in a sequel to the Star Wars Holiday Special, hosted by Jack Black and Lizzo playing themselves because… I don’t know, maybe they have blackmail material on Mr Favreau or maybe it’s the other way around. Christopher Lloyd is also there to muck things up and chew scenery in some side diversion involving malfunctioning droids.
Then, they find her gang, and she trashes Axe Woves for being a dumb man that dares to think he can ever be in charge, and then everyone understands that you must always bow to the superior sex that is woman even if she hadn’t really done anything to warrant wearing the leadership mantle.
Oh, and Mandy gives her the magic sword of female entitlement to get everything she wants on a silver platter.
Along the way, the tin can turns into an imbecile, at one point needing Bo-Katty to explain to him what “engaging automated guidance” means. She also has to tell him where they are because he apparently is unable to think or do anything for himself anymore in the presence of a superior woman.
The Mandalorian has landed neck-deep into Obi-Wan Kenobi tier of epic fail screenwriting and I won’t be shocked if someone told me Kathleen Kennedy had the people from that show “improve” the original scripts of Mr Favreau to make the show more progressive or something.
At any rate, I’m expecting Rey to show up in the finale to deliver Mandy into the light. Why not? That’s the complete turd of an ending that this season utterly deserves.
