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THE MANDALORIAN: SEASON 1

OUT NOW (DISNEY+) EPISODES VIEWED 8 OF 8

SHOWRUNNER Jon Favreau

CAST Pedro Pascal, Gina Carano, Carl Weathers, Werner Herzog, Nick Nolte

PLOT Five years after the fall of the Empire, a Mandalorian gun-for-hire (Pascal) scrapes out a living tracking down strays for the bounty hunter’s guild. After accepting an off-the-books job from a former Imperial (Herzog), he finds himself custodian of a small green child, and in the middle of a whole lot of trouble.

IT’S BEEN A full four months since Disney+ and its flagship show, , launched in this, first live-action series might at first feel underwhelming.

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