Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu: streaming, strikes and Baby Yoda – discuss with spoilers

Is the promotion to the big screen of Star Wars’ breakout Disney+ show just a delightful distraction – or exactly what the franchise needs? • This article contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu Star Wars, with its fondness for grand emotional crescendos, mythic reversals and violent turns of fate, is perhaps cinema’s purest example of space opera. Even the oft-derided prequels, those overheated tales of democracy collapsing, forbidden love and angst-ridden space monks, are...

By Ben Child