benntune

This was average at best. I wouldn't call it a documentary. It was a drama with some documentary film added in to try and give it some clout. Made to try and capitalise off the renewed interest in the subject thanks to Oppenheimer, you can tell Netflix rushed out to create anything it could with predictable results. The bomb isn't even mentioned until about 30mins remaining and nothing new or interesting is depicted. Letters are portrayed in person just to try and dramatise the exchange. If the purpose of this was to inform and/or entertain, it did neither. So as far as I'm concerned it's not worth watching.

First up, I feel like I've missed a season somehow. Was there a season 2b I'm not aware of? Mando has been stripped of his identity and Grogu is back with Mando. Didnt he hand him off at the end of Season 2? That's why he took his helmet off in the first place. That whole sacrifice was for nothing. Anyway once I Googled what the hell was going on (I'm not suffering through the debacle that was Bobba Fett), it became apparent that nothing happened in this episode. It's 30mins long and nothing happens. This is what was disappointing about season 1. Nothing really happened and nothing was tied together. He just went from place to place looking for a mcguffin while they dedicate a stupidly long time focussing on Grogu trying to be cute and making cooing noises. This episode made me feel nothing but frustration and concern for the reat of the episode. It is starting to feel like they have cobbled this together to sell Grogu merchandise and try and milk the IP cow. I hope they prove me wrong.

I was surprised to see the overall rating for this series at 7 out of 10. I genuinely can't fathom how anyone could watch this series and rationally rate it above a 3. And scrolling through the actual reviews it's become very obvious to me that the reviews are an accurate take on the quality of this series as opposed to the rating, which has obviously been propped up by the network. This show is unwatchable. As a Star Trek fan I've tried multiple times to give it a go and just can't get past the first season. So I guess season 2 to 4 could be much better than I expect, but again having read the reviews, which are people who have taken to time to articulate why they don't like it as opposed to just hitting a rating button, confirms my suspicion that the subsequent seasons are just as bad as the first if not worse. So my review is this...don't waste your time. This is a vanity project for social causes and not entertainment by any definition of the word.