The first episode of Season 2 of The Mandalorian dropped this Friday, and it is a doozy in all the right ways. With series creator Jon Favreau back in the director's chair and also handling writing duties, Mando (Pedro Pascal) and The Child (still the cutest) come back with a bang in a mostly satisfying season opener.
Season 2 picks up where the first one left off with Mando searching for his Lovely Green Son's homeworld and people. In order to do this, Din Djarin decides to seek out the help of other Mandalorians, which in this episode brings him back to Tatooine.
It sees the return of a familiar face in Peli Motto (Amy Sedaris), as well as the debut of about twice as many new ones. The end result is that it's more of the same Mando we all know and love, but with an added few wrinkles bound to get Star Wars die hards VERY excited.
There will be FULL AND MAJOR SPOILERS for the episode in this review, so if you haven't watched it yet and don't fancy being spoiled, look away now!
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
