“The Return” is a visually sumptuous penultimate episode made to get you excited for the finale

Since this wasn’t really an important episode, I’ll be shortening this review to solely one paragraph. Anyways, we know have the penultimate episode of The Mandalorian season two available on Disney+ after the streaming service basically dropped announcements like bombs yesterday at the Disney Investor Event. Chapter 15 may not be the best of the series, but it deepens Mando’s character a little more (I won’t get into spoilers) and the action sequences are still more than intact. It did feel like more of a set-up episode to a grand finale, which will be dropping next week, but I was entertained throughout. So now to get in to the general plot. It begins when Cara Dune escorts imperial prisoner Migs Mayfield (Bill Burr), who has been remanded into the custody of her, to their sweet ride. It is a thrill seeing the Slave I appear on screen (Boba Fett’s ship), but what’s especially pleasing to the eye is ogling at Boba’s fresh coat of paint on his badass armor. Why couldn’t he do that in the original trilogy??! Mando, Cara Dune, Fennec and Boba must get Mayfield to the imperial base (he has clearence) so he can get the coordinates for Moff Gideon, who has obtained Grogu. That’s right, no adorable Baby Yoda moments in this episode. Overall, it may be a filler episode, but it definitely got me more excited for the finale next week, for which I will have a full length review for.

The final opinion is: The Mandalorian’s “The Return” is a filler episode with scattered moments of great action, visuals and a fantastic set-up for the end. I would say…BROWSE IT