The Mandalorian (2019) Chapter 8: Redemption

Set after the fall of the Empire and before the emergence of the First Order, we follow the travails of a lone gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy far from the authority of the New Republic.

Country:USA

Release:12 Nov 2019

Last Air Date:18 Dec 2019

Number Of Episode:8

Network:Disney+, Lucasfilm, Walt Disney Studios

Director:Jon Favreau

Cast:Pedro Pascal

The Mandalorian comes face-to-face with an unexpected enemy. The season finale of “The Mandalorian” maintains the momentum from last week’s superb episode and delivers an action-packed experience that makes for one of the series’ best installments. There’s heroism, sacrifice, humor, excitable nods to key franchise elements, and tantalizing teases of where the Disney+ show could go in Season 2. It was the ideal way to close out the season and an adventure that “Star Wars” fans of all stripes should find easy to love.

All of that is well and good, but for all of its memorable scenes — the Child, Aka Baby Yoda, using the Force to deflect a flamethrower, assassin droid Ig-11 (Taika Waititi) sacrificing himself to wipe out a platoon of Stormtroopers, the Mandalorian (Pedro Pascal) finally getting a jetpack and revealing his face and name — it’s the season’s final moments, where Moff Gideon (Giancarlo Esposito) cuts his way out of his Tie