The Mandalorain: Chapter Two: The Child Review

"The Child" is the second episode of The Mandalorian and follows straight on from where the first episode left of with The Mandalorian in position of the highly sort of target The Child or what he is most commonly called by everyone who has watched the show baby Yoda.

The episode overall is much more scaled down then the previous episode, personally it feels as if the first two episodes should of been one episode, rather than split into two (is that a good thing...well that down to your own personal viewpoint) and is basically a mini self contained adventure with the Mandalorian having to chase down a group of Jawas who have stripped down his ship The Razor Crest, leaving him trapped on the planet with The Child. What is really interesting about this episode is that it proves the show can handle larger scale set pieces jumping around from story beat to story beat with a range of characters setting up the overall narrative of the series moving forward to small scale episodes focusing around building character relationships and depth to the characters themselves.

The episode of course has some great action set pieces, whilst not exactly to the scale of the first episode with a mass western style shoot out, but contains a heist style break in of the Jawas sandcrawler which adds a level of comedy to the episode with the Jawas chucking metal objects at the Mandalorian, to a fight for survival with what can only be described as a space rhino (not sure on the official canon species name).

The Child or Baby Yoda honestly steels the show in every scene he is in (which is basically the entire episode), and his cuteness can seriously rival that of Baby Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy VOL.2 and I honestly can't wait to see where the character goes over the course of this series especially with the reveal that happens towards the end of the episode (I won't spoil it for you on here). Credit also has to mentioned that this episode contains hardly any dialogue at times and it really proves that you really don't need to have characters talking all the time to move the plot along and really shows that the filmmakers behind the series are dedicated to visual storytelling as well as carefully thought out dialogue.

The series is currently going from strength to strength and I look forward to finding out how the story progresses over the course of the series.

Verdict:

4.5 out of 5 stars