The first season of The Mandalorian wasn't exactly light on comedy, but there's definitely been a more pronounced element of humour in the first two episodes from Season 2. Last week had a lot of great moments involving Mando and Cobb Vanth, but with Peyton Reed behind the camera for Chapter 10, the episode ends up garnering a lot of laughs - and in all the right places.
Whether it's Mando and The Child watching a bandit fly helplessly through the air on his jetpack, or The Child stealing the poor frog woman's eggs from her jar (this... really shouldn't be as funny as it is), Chapter 10 is filled to the brim with genuinely funny moments that bely the episode's horror-laden twist.
The episode's jokes are disarming in the right way, and help make the moment where things truly go haywire more shocking than it would've been otherwise.
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.
