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SummaryFour kids make a discovery that sends them out into space where they get lost, encounter dangerous lands, and meet mysterious characters, including Jod Na Nawood (Jude Law) as they try to get home in the coming-of-age series set in the Star Wars universe.
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Dec 2, 2024
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Generally Favorable
72
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Mixed or Average
5.9
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
78% Positive
18 Reviews
22% Mixed
5 Reviews
0% Negative
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Dec 3, 2024
91
The A.V. Club
Skeleton Crew has a stunning variety of aliens and showcases all sorts of weird little guys that are imaginatively designed. With the franchise usually being rather human-centric, it’s great to see this show capture the magic of seeing the Mos Eisley Cantina sequence for the first time. The dynamic between Fern and Wim is fantastic
Dec 3, 2024
80
The Daily Beast
With a collection of assured directors, a cast of fine young actors, and Jude Law as the material’s untrustworthy swashbuckler, it’s a family affair which captures some of that old far, far away magic.
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60% Positive
12 Ratings
15% Mixed
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Jan 15, 2025
10
cosmicnetw
Great for it's audience. Really enjoyable to watch a kind of star wars goonies
Dec 13, 2024
8
MarvelAndDC2021
Three episodes in and I gotta say, this series is everything Lucasfilm believed The Acolyte would be, but wasn’t. Good, strongly acted, well-directed, properly lit, decently written and has a more interesting mystery than The Acolyte. And it can still tell stories with new characters while being in an era of Star Wars where a story is still being built to.
Dec 2, 2024
80
Decider
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew is beautifully-made and sweetly innocent, making it a radically rebellious take on a franchise that sometimes seems lost in its own lore.
Dec 2, 2024
80
Looper
It's a series trying very hard to walk the line between good old-fashioned kid movie fun and genuine "Star Wars" galaxy-building, and so far at least, it's doing it quite well.
Dec 2, 2024
70
Slashfilm
The journey to whatever destination remains in store has already earned the benefit of the doubt. In the meantime, "Skeleton Crew" is a breath of fresh air, thanks to the kids leading the way.
Dec 2, 2024
60
Empire
This is a perfectly fun entry in the ever-expanding Star Wars canon: light and frothy by design, driven by a genuinely sweet cast of younglings at the fore. After three episodes, it’s still finding its footing, but there’s promise here. 
Dec 2, 2024
42
The Playlist
Honestly, let’s bring back the era of pilots that need to be green-lit before an entire season of television is made. Because you can be 100% assured if “Skeleton Crew” was created for HBO, FX, or any company that actually understands TV and makes it on the regular, it would not get a series order, would either go back to the drawing board and be rehauled or just not move forward and get blasted out of existence like Alderaan. The Force is not with this one…at all, sadly.
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Jan 10, 2025
1
Anuir
The visuals are very poorly done; everything is in a very dark hue so that CGI flaws can be hidden, but unfortunately I can barely see what is happening on screen. There are some very irresponsible themes presented here, things I think it's dangerous to present to children. Although many people will tell you that this is too PG, namely that it's aimed at children 12 and under, this is very incorrect and misleading. On the contrary, there are a lot of very non-PG things happening that are not appropriate for a children's show at all. I would never let my kids watch this. ( If you are a parent and you let your kids watch this, why would you do that? What are you thinking? ) But this show is, however, written in a very childish and immature way, with very little thought given to believable or serious plot points and character developments. For example, making a child character spoiled and willful doesn't make the character deep or adventurous. It simply makes the character unlikable and hard to connect to. There is too much reference to things that aren't Star Wars, like Treasure Island or Pirates of the Caribbean, to the detriment of SW world-building. I want to watch Star Wars, not other IPs. Many plot devices in this show remind me of very vulgar instances from The Last Jedi, the things that were so banal and so cringey and honestly very inappropriate and insulting. Many plot twists are illogical in the context of the linear narrative—things that have stakes are turned into nothing while things that had no stakes are suddenly created into a shallow drama. There are build-ups that have no payoffs and no substance. Reddit is filled with speculation about this show because the actual worldbuilding and backstory are very skimpy and almost empty. Most of the things redditors are speculating about haven't been revealed at all during the 7 episodes; the answers aren't provided. All the questions about the mysteries of the show will turn out to be nothing or will probably be a part of some book. Is SW being made by real directors and writers, or is it written by a committee of behind-the-scenes producers with a very superficial checklist to follow? Because my ChatGPT outputs have more effort put into them than this script.
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