Kenobi

This review contains spoilers for the first two episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi, now streaming on Disney+. “I’m not who I used to be,” Obi-Wan Kenobi tells Bail Organa late in the first episode of Obi-Wan’s self-titled Disney+ series. It is 10 years after the events of the third Star Wars prequel, Revenge of the Sith. The Galactic Republic has fallen. Most of the Jedi are dead, and the remaining ones are being hunted by a pack of evil ex-Jedi known as the Inquisitors. Everything Obi-Wan fought for, everything he believed in,…

Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea has added another credit to his surprisingly hefty list of acting roles, popping up in the first two episodes of the new Star Wars series, Obi-Wan Kenobi. The show arrived early on Disney+ Thursday night, May 27, so for those who haven’t had a chance to watch yet, fair warning — spoilers ahead. In the show, Flea plays a bounty hunter named Vect Nehru, who’s hired by Reva (Moses Ingram) — a Force-sensitive Inquisitor tasked with tracking Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) — to kidnap a…

(Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for CNN. A WarnerMedia Company. All Rights Reserved.) If you want to talk smack about Disney Plus’s newest Star Wars series, Obi-Wan Kenobi to West Side Story actress Rachel Zegler, you better go “Somewhere” else besides Twitter. The Golden Globe winner is here for the series, lightsaber in hand, and she’s not accepting any haters. The first two episodes of the series became available for steaming to Disney Plus subscribers (does the fact that she’s playing Snow White…

The galaxy in Star Wars is vast, and with its streaming series, Disney seems intent on exploring every single corner of it. So far, that has seen mixed success. The Mandalorian is the best new Star Wars character in years, but it turns out I really don’t need to know much more about what Boba Fett gets up to. Now we have Obi-Wan Kenobi, starring Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor), which aims to fill in the gap between the original two trilogies. And for the first two episodes, at least, it works — Obi-Wan is playing the…

Obi-Wan Kenobi — the new live-action Star Wars limited series, featuring the return of Ewan McGregor's titular Jedi Master and Hayden Christensen's Darth Vader — is now streaming on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar wherever available. That's earlier than expected, a full three hours in fact. Early Friday in India / late Thursday in the US, Disney+ revealed that Obi-Wan Kenobi would premiere Thursday, May 26 at 9pm PT, which translates to Friday, May 27 at 12am ET / 5am BST / 9:30am IST / 2pm AEST. We're getting the first two…

Star Wars fans were treated to the surprise release of the first two episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi on Disney+ at 9 p.m. Pacific Thursday. “The time for @ObiWanKenobi has arrived…early,” read a tweet from the official Star Wars account announcing the news. According to Variety, the release comes after fans attending the Star Wars Celebration convention in Anaheim, Calif. “were surprised with a premiere screening of the show” earlier that evening. The first two episodes of the series were initially scheduled for release…

Image via Disney / Entertainment Weekly magazine Disney Plus is unleashing the force with some eye-popping marketing for the forthcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi, one day ahead of the show’s premiere on the streaming service. The latest stunt involves projecting images onto the Battersea Power Station in London, which turned the iconic chimney stacks into the lightsabers for the titular Jedi Master played by Ewan McGregor and his former apprentice-turned-dark-side-zealot, Hayden Christensen’s Darth Vader. The iconic…

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Star Wars has been around for decades yet the franchise keeps getting better and better. Disney+ consistently rolls out new Star Wars TV shows, all of which have received positive accolades from new and old fans. The latest in the Star Wars universe is Obi-Wan Kenobi, with its first episode premiering on Friday, May 27. Wondering how to watch Obi-Wan Kenobi on Disney+?…

Image via Lucasfilm/Disney Plus With the premiere of Obi-Wan Kenobi just a week away, fans are in a tizzy speculating what Star Wars secrets and surprises the highly anticipated Disney Plus series will reveal. The trailers thus far show that the six episode miniseries will fit within a well-established canon chronology set roughly ten years after the prequels and ten years before the events of the original trilogy. This is the period during which the Star Wars Rebels animated series that ran from 2014 to 2018 is…

| The story of Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi #1, courtesy of Chris Cantwell, is essentially Obi-Wan writing his memoirs. The real story of Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi #1 is artist Ario Anindito's versatility. In the framing sequence, he draws similar to Phil Noto or Tomas Giorello. Still, in the memoir, Anindito draws in a cartoonier style, something that might be more palatable to a YA audience. Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi #1 cover by Phil Noto I was so taken aback that I checked the credits page multiple times to be sure it…