The Mandalorian | The Verge The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts. 2022-12-19T18:10:50+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/rss/mandalorian/index.xml https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/verge-rss-large_80b47e.png?w=150&h=150&crop=1 Charles Pulliam-Moore <![CDATA[Ahsoka, Loki season 2, and Secret Invasion are all part of Disney Plus’ teaser for 2023]]> https://www.theverge.com/23516969/loki-season-2-ahsoka-secret-war-mandalorian-season-3-teaser 2022-12-19T13:10:50-05:00 2022-12-19T13:10:50-05:00

Disney Plus subscribers probably still have a back catalog of shows and movies from 2022 to watch. That said, the streamer's already gearing up to hit the ground running in the new year with a bevy of returning series like The Mandalorian and Loki and a few new ones like Ahsoka and Secret Invasion.

Though it doesn't reveal all that much about any of the new series debuting next year, Disney Plus' new teaser trailer for all of its forthcoming shows does make clear that the House of Mouse is sticking to its guns in 2023 by offering up even more live-action Marvel and Star Wars fare. Pedro Pascal's Din Djarin and Grogu are both (obviously) ret …

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]]> Chaim Gartenberg <![CDATA[The Book of Boba Fett is so busy it forgets to make Boba Fett interesting]]> https://www.theverge.com/22925214/the-book-of-boba-fett-season-finale-review-star-wars-disney-plus 2022-02-09T10:13:00-05:00 2022-02-09T10:13:00-05:00

The final episode from The Book of Boba Fett has arrived, bringing a close to the increasingly crowded series. But the finale still can't manage to corral the show's various plot threads into a satisfying ending, despite some big action moments designed to delight fans.

Fett's character has always been one full of potential: a morally ambiguous bounty hunter roaming the galaxy with a badass outfit and a cool-looking ship. Unfortunately, this week's finale falls flat in a similar manner to the rest of the show. Boba Fett (Temuera Morrison) still feels strangely sidelined in the series that bears his name, defanged of his fearsome reputation …

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]]> Chaim Gartenberg <![CDATA[Star Wars has a Luke Skywalker problem]]> https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/2/22914062/the-book-of-boba-fett-star-wars-luke-skywalker-aging-cgi 2022-02-02T10:17:54-05:00 2022-02-02T10:17:54-05:00

The Book of Boba Fett - much like all of Disney's current and future Star Wars shows - has a Luke Skywalker problem. And it's one that no amount of expensive CGI technology can solve.

Spoilers for The Book of Boba Fett, episode six ahead

The issue goes something like this: Luke is, obviously, a hugely important character to Star Wars as a franchise. Star Wars' current plan for its future is heavily focused on Disney Plus TV shows set in the post-Return of the Jedi era, like The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, set five years after Return of the Jedi, where Luke is roughly 28 years old.

Mark Hamill - who is still portraying Skywalker …

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]]> Julia Alexander <![CDATA[The Book of Boba Fett is another Mandalorian spinoff show, coming to Disney Plus in 2021]]> https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/18/22188516/boba-fett-disney-plus-show-2021-release-date-mandalorian-finale 2020-12-21T08:46:58-05:00 2020-12-21T08:46:58-05:00

After years of speculation about whether Boba Fett would get his own spinoff of some kind, The Mandalorian's season 2 finale confirmed that a new Boba Fett series, titled The Book of Boba Fett, will hit Disney Plus in December 2021.

Executive producer Jon Favreau appeared on Good Morning America on December 21st to confirm The Book of Boba Fett as a new series (following some speculation that Book of Boba Fett was some sort of subtitle for The Mandalorian's third season.) The new show will be an original series set within the world of The Mandalorian, with Favreau, Dave Filoni, and Robert Rodriguez set to produce the series. Favreau and Fil …

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]]> Julia Alexander <![CDATA[There is no ‘best’ time to release new Mandalorian episodes]]> https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/18/22188654/mandalorian-episodes-finale-release-time-spoilers-game-of-thrones 2020-12-18T11:46:28-05:00 2020-12-18T11:46:28-05:00

For the last eight weeks, waking up on Friday morning has come with a gamble for many Star Wars fans: check Twitter to see the latest headlines or watch the new Mandalorian episode before anyone has a chance to spoil it?

This week's episode of The Mandalorian is a perfect example. The second season finale includes some moments that Twitter's trending tags and "news for you" curated topic sideline are already ruining. Without getting into spoiler territory here (and use this as a warning to stay away from Twitter if you haven't seen the finale yet), one of the proposed solutions to this problem seems simple: release the episodes at a later t …

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]]> Andrew Webster <![CDATA[The Verge guide to The Mandalorian]]> https://www.theverge.com/star-wars/2020/10/30/65981/the-mandalorian-news-reviews-disney-plus-star-wars-baby-yoda 2020-12-18T10:50:05-05:00 2020-12-18T10:50:05-05:00

For a show about a tiny alien, The Mandalorian sure had a huge impact. The first season of the series helped sell millions on Disney Plus, the company’s Netflix-style streaming service, while simultaneously showing how the Star Wars universe could translate to prestige television. It was, to put it succinctly, a hit — one that became even more popular thanks to the adorable Baby Yoda. Er, I mean, The Child.

The second season, meanwhile, faces a very different challenge. Not only does it have to live up to the hype generated by season 1, but it’s also releasing at a time when many of the biggest movies and TV shows have been indefinitely delayed due to the ongoing pandemic, making it arguably the biggest entertainment release of 2020.

To help you keep track of everything related to the show — reviews of the latest episodes, analyses on what its success means for Disney’s business, and yes, cute pictures of Baby Yoda — we’ve created this landing page to gather up all of the biggest Mandalorian stories in one place.

If you need to stay up to date — this is the way.

Season 1

Season 2

Baby Yoda

Behind the scenes

]]> Chaim Gartenberg <![CDATA[The Mandalorian collides with the broader Star Wars universe in its season 2 finale]]> https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/18/22188706/the-mandalorian-season-2-episode-8-rescue-star-wars-grogu-skywalker-saga 2020-12-18T10:47:53-05:00 2020-12-18T10:47:53-05:00

As expected, The Mandalorian's finale culminated in a dramatic showdown between Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) - aka, Mando - and Moff Gideon (Giancarlo Esposito) over the fate of Grogu (née Baby Yoda). But "The Rescue" didn't just run into the expected complications for an assault on a massive Imperial cruiser: it also ran into the mainstream Star Wars universe in the biggest way yet.

Warning: Spoilers for the entirety of The Mandalorian season 2 and Star Wars: The Last Jedi follow.

Par for the course for Mando, though, things didn't go quite as planned. While the armored hero did succeed in saving his adopted son, it came at a bittersweet c …

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]]> Chaim Gartenberg <![CDATA[The Mandalorian takes a stand on the line between good and evil in its latest episode]]> https://www.theverge.com/22169673/the-mandalorian-season-2-episode-7-believer-star-wars-empire-good-evil 2020-12-11T11:44:18-05:00 2020-12-11T11:44:18-05:00

"Empire. New Republic. It's all the same to these people," comments Migs Mayfield (Bill Burr) in the latest episode of The Mandalorian.

For a while, it seems that the show believes it, dressing Mando up in stormtrooper armor as he goes to desperate lengths to save Baby Yoda (neé Grogu) from Moff Gideon. In "The Believer," it's not an X-Wing swooping in triumphantly to save our heroes; it's Imperial TIE Fighters - a symbol that fans have come to associate with the forces of evil in the galaxy, potent symbology that The Mandalorian's first season finale relied on to great effect.

And director Rick Fukuyama works to really sell the audience …

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]]> Chaim Gartenberg <![CDATA[The Mandalorian is a video game hero, and the new episode finally turns up the difficulty]]> https://www.theverge.com/22152431/the-mandalorian-season-2-episode-6-star-wars-dark-forces-trooper-baby-yoda-grogu 2020-12-04T09:52:29-05:00 2020-12-04T09:52:29-05:00

It's often been commented that The Mandalorian is designed a lot like a video game. The Mandalorian himself feels like a player character, running around a galaxy full of people who are always in need of something, doing different side-quests for NPCs in exchange for help or a new piece of gear. (That's part of what makes him such a great fit in Fortnite.)

But in season 2, episode 6, "The Tragedy," those comparisons are even more pronounced with the reintroduction of Star Wars characters that first appeared as high-level video game enemies.

Spoilers for The Mandalorian, season 2 and the 1995 PC game Star War: Dark Forces below.

Dark Troo …

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]]> Julia Alexander <![CDATA[The Mandalorian’s Clone Wars tie-in is the boost Disney Plus needed]]> https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/1/21761493/mandalorian-star-wars-clone-rebels-dave-filoni-ahsoka-tano-thrawn 2020-12-01T17:35:09-05:00 2020-12-01T17:35:09-05:00

The Mandalorian's second season is halfway done and, beyond The Child's big name reveal, what's become more apparent as the show goes on is how much it relies on Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

Audiences turning to The Clone Wars as a way to better understand what's happening in The Mandalorian or refresh their memories makes sense, but the spike in Clone Wars viewership has an even bigger winner - Disney Plus.

Spoilers below for The Mandalorian season 2, episode 5

Like anything in the Star Wars universe, The Mandalorian is rooted in deeper Star Wars lore. It was this week's episode, however, and the appearance of Ahsoka Tano that finally conv …

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