——8.3 out of 10 stars.——
For some reason this season felt a lot more like a Star Wars film than the previous two seasons. The prior seasons may have received higher ratings on IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes, but season three is a bit more fun.
The scene in episode six with Jack Black playing Captain Bombardier: an eccentric aristocrat who won’t stop smiling and is the governor of a bohemian and affluent alien planet; is one of the most hilarious and transporting moments of the entire series.
As the Mandalorian enters Bombardiers dining hall with Baby Yoda and Bo-Katan Kryze, captain Bombardier whimsically asks if they enjoy “secretions” with an upper-class wave of his fingers and offers them one of many silicone tubes hooked up to a fishbowl with a very colorful alien creature suspended inside in some sort of neon fluid.
This is the perfect cameo for Jack, he couldn’t have played it any better and it is one of the more memorable TV characters in recent memory.
Baby Yoda is becoming one of the shows most intrinsic punchlines even though he can only make one adorable sound and is perhaps developing into the star of the show despite his inability to talk.
The tangential story lines like Bombardier and the defiant Dr. Pershing stuck in a newly minted dystopian New Republic society; are creating a Star Wars universe far away from the Skywalkers, the Jedi and the Sith. Season four of the show would do well to create more storylines similar to Jack Blacks’ hilarious role and the planet he governs; because The Mandalorian is a one-of-a-kind action comedy.
Overall creator Jon Favreau continues to make this one of the most engaging and well directed shows on TV right now.
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