Review by onirium

I'm finding the 3rd season of The Mandalorian way too uneven and all over the place. Fabreau hasn't learned any lessons after the Boba Fett fiasco and this season is just as confusing and uneven as that series was. The Mandalorian is supposed to be a space western but this season they try to be so many other things I'm not sure what to expect anymore. It's not that I'm a purist of any genre, I simply like consistency in style and quality. If episode 19 was an amateurish version of Andor, episode 20 is like some filler episode from the Bad Batch. The story that revolves around the Mandalorian covert and how they try to save a child from the clutches of an alien dragon. There is little in terms of advancing the plot although we do see how the relation of Bo Katan and the other Mandalorians solidifies. Style and story-wise the episode is extremely cartoonish. Big and bigger monsters, no sense of risk to anyone (characters survive unscathed no matter what happens to them, some situations are nonsensical), fast chases... the setting felt a bit poor at times, you know they are inside a room and not at the top of a mountain for example... Not a bad episode, it was fun to watch and it had a couple of excellent moments (wait for the final chat between Bo Katan and The Armorer), but it was certainly not at the level this series can reach. They can do much better than this.