Was The Book of Boba Fett really that disappointing?

Star Wars' most divisive Disney+ series has aged better than its reviews suggested, and two of its episodes rank among the whole franchise's best.

I bailed on The Book of Boba Fett halfway through the first run and only went back to it years later, mostly out of curiosity. Watching all seven episodes in two sittings turned out to be a completely different experience from waiting a week between each one.

What is this show actually about?

Boba Fett survived the Sarlacc pit, and the series opens with him claiming Jabba the Hutt's old territory on Tatooine as the new daimyo of Mos Espa. Temuera Morrison plays him as a man trying to rule through respect rather than fear, which is a genuinely interesting idea and also the source of most complaints about the show.

Ming-Na Wen returns as Fennec Shand, the assassin who becomes his second-in-command, and she gets many of the season's most satisfying moments. Jon Favreau created the series off the back of The Mandalorian, picking up directly from that show's second-season post-credits scene. Half the season runs on flashbacks to Fett's time with a Tusken tribe after crawling out of the desert, and those sequences are either the best or the slowest part of the show depending entirely on who you ask. The subscription costs less than most people spend on a single lunch out during the week, so catching up on seven episodes is not exactly a serious financial decision, and there's nothing binding you to multiple months if you only want it for a weekend.

The middle of the season pulls a genuinely strange move!

Episodes five and six barely feature Boba Fett at all. Instead they hand the show over to Pedro Pascal's Din Djarin, effectively functioning as a bridge between the second and third seasons of The Mandalorian, complete with Grogu, a digitally de-aged Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, and Rosario Dawson's Ahsoka Tano.

- Those two episodes are widely considered the strongest of the entire run.

- Temuera Morrison does not have a single line in either of them.

- The finale then has to resolve a plot those episodes largely stepped away from.

That structure is exactly why the reception split so hard. Fans got some of the best Star Wars television of that period, and it arrived inside a show named after someone else.

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So how bad were the numbers?

Rotten Tomatoes settled around 66% with critics and closer to 50% with audiences, the weakest of the live-action Star Wars shows on the platform. The finale drew the harshest reviews of the season, with critics arguing Fett's motives were never properly explained.

The reputation has softened since. Watched without the weekly wait and without expecting the ruthless bounty hunter from the original trilogy, the Tatooine crime-lord angle holds together better than it did in 2022. A lot of the early criticism landed on a gang of young riders on brightly coloured speeder bikes, a stylistic swing that still feels out of place but takes up far less of the season than its reputation suggests. Robert Rodriguez directed several episodes with a pulpy western energy that's easier to appreciate now, and if you're watching from outside its usual region a VPN handles access without any fuss.

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Will there ever be a second season?

Temuera Morrison has been openly frustrated about the silence, asking publicly in interviews where season two has gone while other Star Wars shows moved forward without him. Nothing has been announced, and with Jon Favreau's The Mandalorian and Grogu arriving in cinemas in May 2026 without Fett in the cast, Lucasfilm's attention has clearly moved elsewhere.

Set aside a single weekend and take it as one seven-episode story rather than a weekly serial, because that's the version of this show that works. I still think there's a better series buried in here about an old killer trying to become something else, and it's frustrating that the season's finest hours belong to a different character entirely.