Disney Plus's The Mandalorian debuts in just three days, but there have been no early reviews of it. Why?
, Jon Favreau’s big budget, non-Jedi live action series that stars Pedro Pascal as a mysterious Mandalorian, and boasts quite a supporting cast to boot.
But strangely, there have been zero early previews for the show. No early reviews. This is generally not how the debut of most shows works, as critics are sent out screeners and given an embargo date to report their thoughts. For instance, for the last season ofI was sent the first three episodes about a month early, and told I could write a review a week before release to let people know if it was good or not .is that there have not been any screeners for the show sent to critics.
there was a screening for some media members, but it was just an “extended preview” of about 30 minutes, not a full episode. Impressions seemed largely positive.Disney claims that this is because they don’t want at least one major, early-on spoiler getting out ahead of time. This has ruffled the feathers of critics, and many are claiming that it could be a bad sign for the show’s quality if screeners aren’t being sent out, as Disney doesn’t launch with bad buzz, but I’m not sure if I buy that.
Without having any inside knowledge, I have had a long-running theory that the big “spoiler” revealed early on is thatis actually going to be a show about Boba Fett. Pascal is playing Fett inside new armor. The previews obscure this fact, but it’s definitely weird the character is not named, and I believe this is a “Fett crawled out of the Sarlaac pit” situation that echoes developments from the old expanded universe, and that may in fact be revealed in the pilot.
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