9. The Mandalorian
As the first live-action Star Wars show, there was a lot of hype and eyeballs on The Mandalorian. And thankfully, it mostly succeeds at taking the big, campy adventurous spirit of live-action Star Wars films and squeezing it into weekly episodes of a TV show. It also introduced Grogu aka Baby Yoda, a small child-like example of the alien race known only as Yoda’s species. Grogu became an overnight pop culture icon and helped make The Mandalorian even bigger.
The show is pure Star Wars fan service, but it’s big-budgeted and fun fan service delivered in a weekly package with guest stars like Jack Black and interesting bits of post-Return of the Jedi lore sprinkled in to keep super fans excited. It’s not high art, but it’s entertaining sci-fi and that’s really all Star Wars needs to be most of the time to work. — ZZ
