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STAR WARS: MAUL – SHADOW LORD SERIES REVIEW
Luke Skywalker once said “No one’s ever really gone,” and no other character in the Star Wars franchise has taken that to heart more than Darth Maul; a character that has canonically died twice(!) already. And yet, fans can’t seem to get enough of the former Sith Lord. Set between the events of the Prequels and the Original Trilogy, Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord finds Maul (Sam Witwer) on the planet Janix seeking revenge against the criminal syndicates who betrayed him. This puts him on a collision course with the local police force led by Detective Brander Lawson (2025 Best Actor Oscar-nominee Wagner Moura) and his droid partner Two Boots (Richard Ayoade) as well as a pair of fugitive Jedi, Master Daki (Dennis Haysbert) and his Padawan Devon (Gideon Adlon), who Maul views as a potential Dark Side apprentice. Our reviewers Ian, Melina, and Marco have convened the OneOfUs Jedi Council to discuss this new animated series and whether Darth Maul still has legs (figuratively speaking) as a character and source of future stories.
CREATED BY: Dave Filoni
STARRING: Sam Witwer, Vanessa Marshall, A.J. LoCascio, Chris Diamantopoulos, David W. Collins, Dennis Haysbert, Gideon Adlon, Richard Ayoade, Sam Corlett, Steve Blum, Wagner Moura, Charlie Bushnell, Keiko Agena, Stephen Stanton, Clancy Brown, Ewan McGregor, Scott Whyte, Dave Fennoy, John Carroll Lynch, Avery Kidd Waddell, Pamela Adlon, Ben Diskin, Tamlyn Tomita
YOUR REVIEWERS
Marco Noyola (Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad, Audio Editor)
By day, Marco is a mild-mannered office worker, but by night he is a mild-mannered movie watcher. He does other mild-mannered stuff too.
Ian Butcher (Highly Suspect Reviews, Eye on the Prize, Breakfast Pub)
Moving all around the country growing up meant that there was only one constant in Ian’s life, the video store. Thus began a lifelong obsession with all things celluloid. While spending most of his origin story becoming a human IMDB, Ian came across a certain site called Spill.com, This discovery, combined with a need to move away from the pacific northwest and never look back, led Ian to drop out of film school and move to Austin. A general man about town, you can usually find Ian in a hole in the wall bar in east Austin, running around town with a camera pretending to be something of a filmmaker, or talking about all things movies here on OneOfUs.net and DoubleToasted.com.
Melina Eames (Screener Squad)
Melina first discovered that she carried the nerd gene at the tender age of four following her exposure to a little film called A New Hope. In the twenty-some years that followed, Melina continued to grow into her geek identity through the discovery of Batman, Mst3k, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, and The Mandalorian. But perhaps her most significant discovery came at the age of fourteen when a night of YouTube mining led her to the review site of Spill.com. Melina became a devoted follower whose fandom did not end with the site’s demise. By then, it had worked its dark magic and left her with a love and appreciation for film criticism that she has yet to shrug.
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