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The Return of the Bounty Hunter: A Review of the Mandalorian Season One
Writers Note: Contains some spoilers!
If you know “Star Wars”, you’ll know that bounty hunters are principal characters to the storylines of both the movies and T.V. series. That’s right, read it again. Now maybe you thought that they were just minor characters; it appears as though we only see them in three movies: “Attack of the Clones”, “The Empire Strikes Back” and “The Return of the Jedi”. But the truth is that George Lucas snuck bounty hunters into the picture starting from “A New Hope”, when the Rodian alien Greedo confronts Han Solo in the famous Mos Eisley cantina scene and tells him it’s time to “pay up his debts or else.”
And yet, despite their presence we don’t know too much about them, except that they can work for the Empire and can get involved in criminal activity. Never before has a series been made solely about bounty hunters. And this is essentially what makes “The Mandalorian” such an entertaining show; it focuses on a ferocious gunfighting bounty hunter and not just any bounty hunter either but a Mandalorian.
The Star Wars series, “The Mandalorian” (available on Disney Plus), revolves around a Mandalorian known mainly throughout season one as “Mando.” A bounty hunter by trade, Mando is unlike other bounty hunters in that he never removes his helmet…
