The Mandalorian (Season 3)

Essential on continuity and the weakest of the three seasons. It opens assuming you have watched two episodes of The Book of Boba Fett, which is a genuinely poor piece of housekeeping: the protagonist's circumstances changed in another programme and this one does not explain it.

The season's problem is focus. It splits between Din Djarin's pilgrimage to a ruined homeworld, a political plot about Mandalorian factions, a subplot about a New Republic amnesty programme for former Imperials, and a long sequence following a droid on a terraformed planet. Several of those are interesting and none of them is the spine.

What works is the world-building about Mandalore itself, which had been a background noun for forty years and is here a bombed-out surface with a surviving underground, and Katee Sackhoff's Bo-Katan, who carries most of the season's actual arc and has the better claim to being its lead. The episode on Plazir-15 is a genuinely good detective story.

The child is now a passenger rather than a premise, and the first season's restraint is gone. Watch it for the continuity and expect less than the second season gave you.