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The Book of Boba Fett premiered Wednesday, December 29, …
— Recommendations are independently chosen by Reviewed’s editors. Purchases you make through our links may earn us a commission. The Book of Boba Fett premiered Wednesday, December 29, on Disney+, and it’s off to a satisfying start—especially if you’re a Return of the Jedi fan. The 38-minute episode, “Stranger in a Strange Land,” guest-stars Jennifer Beals ( Flashdance) and Matt Barry ( What We Do in the Shadows), with Robert Rodriguez directing from a script by Jon Favreau. Ludwig Göransson and Joseph Shirley supply a fantastic score in the tradition of The Mandalorian, and David Klein ( Chasing Amy) serves as director of photography. Two stories are told in parallel, exploring Fett’s (Temuera Morrison and Daniel Logan) past through flashbacks as well as his new reign as daimyo on Tatooine, in the palace that one belonged to crime lord Jabba the Hutt. In order to watch The Book of Boba Fett, you need to subscribe to Disney+, the platform that serves as the online home for all things Star Wars. You can watch Disney+ using streaming devices, desktop browsers, a wide range of mobile devices, smart TVs, and video-game consoles. A subscription to Disney+ costs $7.99 per month or $79.99 for the full year, though you can save by signing up for the Disney Bundle with ESPN+ and Hulu, which gives you access to all three streaming services for just $13.99 a month. Sign up for Disney+ starting at $7.99 per month or $79.99 per year The episode opens with familiar shots of Jabba’s old palace outside Mos Espa, an empty throne, and, finally, Boba in a healing pod filled with bacta. As he sleeps, he dreams of the stormy oceans on Kamino, his homeworld, and of his father’s death years earlier on Geonosis. Then we find him deep in the belly of the Sarlacc on Tatooine, where we saw him devoured in 1983’s Return of the Jedi. He searches the darkness for some means of salvation, finding only a dead Imperial stormtrooper whose armor has begun dissolving inside the beast.
