The story
In the lawless years after the Empire's fall, a helmeted Mandalorian bounty hunter scrapes a living on the galaxy's ragged edges. A job for shadowy Imperial holdouts puts him face to face with his target: a small, mysterious child with unusual powers. Choosing protection over payment, he becomes a fugitive, hopping between remote outposts with his tiny charge while weighing the strict creed of his people against a growing bond.
Why it matters
The flagship of Disney+'s launch day, it showed that a blockbuster film franchise could thrive as a weekly streaming serial. Its StageCraft LED video wall, built by Industrial Light & Magic, has since been adopted by other productions, and it became the first non-Netflix show to top Nielsen's streaming chart.
Notable facts
- It premiered alongside the launch of Disney+ on 12 November 2019 and is the first live-action series in the Star Wars franchise. (source)
- It was the first production filmed using real-time rendering for realistic, parallax-correct digital environments, via the StageCraft system. (source)
- It became the first non-Netflix show to reach number one on Nielsen's streaming chart. (source)
- It has won fifteen Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, with wins for each of its three seasons. (source)