It’s a lot of characters to introduce in a single episode, and the script more or less limits each of them to a single trait: Mayfeld is a cocky jerk, Burg is hot-tempered, Xi’an erratic, etc. Mostly, it’s an opportunity for Mando to seem uncomfortable around these clowns, and then for him to demonstrate his skills by taking them down one by one when they inevitably betray him.
And that’s even before you count the cameos by Famuyiwa and his fellow directors Dave Filoni and Deborah Chow as the three X-Wing pilots — delightfully named, respectively, Jib Jodger, Trapper Wolf, and Sash Ketter — who blow up the thieves’ base at the end, plus Matt Lanter as the New Republic soldier who gets killed by Xi’an.
That said, Mando’s past affiliation with these jokers raises more questions than the episode has time for, or interest in, answering. We still don’t know a lot about how this once-noble warrior race ended up on such hard times, nor how Mandy might have gotten mixed up with such a crew, nor what — if anything — he and Xi’an might have gotten up to even as he kept his helmet on.
But like most of the series to this point, “The Prisoner” isn’t so much deep as it is fun. And that continues to work well enough.
sepinwall Agree with your joker reference. On this weeks The Mandolorian, Batman is forced to team up with the suicide squad! Harley Quinn and a dead shot also represented.
I don't think I've seen this Cirque du Soleil.
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