The Mandalorian: Season 2, Episode 6 Review

This review contains spoilers for The Mandalorian Season 2, episode 6, titled "Chapter 14 - The Tragedy." Here's our Mandalorian Season 2, episode 5 review to refresh your memory of where we left off. For more from The Mandalorian, Giancarlo Esposito explains why Moff Gideon's armor is so Darth Vader-esque, and find out how old Boba Fett and Ahsoka Tano are in The Mandalorian's timeline. [poilib element="accentDivider"] After the adrenaline rush of Ahsoka Tano's debut in Chapter 13, I'll admit I was expecting The Mandalorian Chapter 14 to be another side quest that would delay Mando and Grogu's arrival on Tython until the penultimate episode of the season, but dank farrik, am I glad to be wrong. Just as "The Jedi" delivered deep-cut lore, intriguing backstory, and thrilling action, "The Tragedy" doubled down on that formula and turned things up to 11, aided by the dynamic direction of Robert Rodriguez - who's no stranger to helming epic western gunfights fought beside unlikely allies. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/11/27/the-mandalorian-season-2-episode-5-the-truth-behind-the-jedi-and-her-secret-mission-star-wars-canon-fodder"] Even if the episode had settled for simply being a team-up between Mando, Boba Fett, and the resurrected Fennec Shand (now sporting some cybernetic innards to make up for being shot by that punk Toro Calican, who we will never speak of again), it still would've been pretty badass, since the entire sequence delivered the most creative and well-executed action we've seen on The Mandalorian so far. The glorious moment when Boba Fett returned in his iconic - if battered - armor to take out basically an entire squad of stormtroopers was worth the price of admission alone, enough to redeem the bounty hunter's ignominious exit in Return of the Jedi.