At this point, it does feel like the show is taking a much different approach than most of us thought. Instead of 8 episodes feeling like one long movie, The Mandalorian has pretty much been 6 different stories simply involving the same characters. Other than the fact that Mando & The Child are in every episode (and always in danger) the episodes have felt very episodic and unrelated to each other. It's almost like they had many ideas involving a Samurai/Western style and chose to write 8 different stories (6 so far). The show is perfectly fine, but I think we expect something different from a streaming show these days, when the idea of a show being "episodic" is almost completely non-exisistent.
And really, what can I say that is all that different from the last few weeks? Mando has a job, Baby Yoda/The Child is in danger, and at the end of the job they both fly off together. Is this not the same exact ending we've had 4-5 times now? It's unfortunate that repeating the same story beats is overshadowing these episodes for me because the action, choreography, cinematography, and the rest of the big filmmaking words are fantastic this week. I just wish at this point the show felt more like we were entering into the 3rd act of a movie, rather than at the same point we were at the end of the first episode.
7.6/10
