{"id":15183,"date":"2020-01-02T21:31:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T02:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=15183"},"modified":"2020-02-08T15:45:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T20:45:56","slug":"the-mandalorian-season-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/the-mandalorian-season-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mandalorian (season 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;This is the way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Mandalorian<\/strong> season 1, aired in 2019<\/p>\n<p>The Mandalorian is a bounty hunter &#8212; he&#8217;s a man of few words and many weapons. He encases his bounties in carbonite for delivery so that there&#8217;s no fuss. But his latest bounty is different &#8212; it&#8217;s a very small creature, who seems to be a child. But then the child demonstrates the ability to stop a huge rampaging animal with their mind. When Jawas strip his ship for parts, he turns to the one man on the planet he can trust.<\/p>\n<p>The look of the show is tremendous &#8212; you can tell you&#8217;re in the <strong>Star Wars<\/strong> universe we know. It has a good sense of humour.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t sure a story about a bounty hunter would be interesting, but the story of this bounty hunter is gripping. The 8-episode season builds to a thrilling finale.<\/p>\n<p>We gradually find out more about the Mandalorians, a group that apparently includes Boba Fett.<\/p>\n<p>The music by Ludwig G\u00f6ransson won&#8217;t remind you of John Williams but it fits the story nicely.<\/p>\n<p>Carl Weathers, Wernor Herzog, and Ming-Na Wen show up as guest stars. Nick Nolte and Taika Waititi&#8217;s voices are also heard.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Pedro Pascal.<\/p>\n<p>Created by Jon Favreau (director of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/elf-2\/\"><strong>Elf<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;This is the way.&#8221; The Mandalorian season 1, aired in 2019 The Mandalorian is a bounty hunter &#8212; he&#8217;s a man of few words and many weapons. He encases his bounties in carbonite for delivery so that there&#8217;s no fuss. But his latest bounty is different &#8212; it&#8217;s a very small creature, who seems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5,8,122,11],"class_list":["post-15183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-shows","tag-review","tag-science-fiction","tag-star-wars","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15183"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15341,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15183\/revisions\/15341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}