'Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord' Review: Nobody Loves Poor Maul

Maul, formerly known as Darth Maul, is The Great Gazoo of Star Wars villains. It's at this point it hits me that you may not know who The Great Gazoo even is, though it does appear he still makes appearances in modern media from time to time. The Great Gazoo is sarcastic, kind of mean to Fred Flintstone, a bit of a sad sack, and supernatural. See, that's who Maul is now, except the Fred Flintstone part. Remember when Maul was cool? Like, literally the coolest Star Wars character to ever exist? Then he died. But then he came back. And now he has his own animated television show, just like Fred Flintstone once did. It's all a lot to take in, so let's go through this together.

There are ten episodes of this first season of Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord and critics were sent eight of them, and I did watch those eight sent episodes.

The Phantom Menace came out 27 years ago (good lord), which means there are people pushing 30 years old who have no idea just how cool Darth Maul was for the six months between the release of the first trailer for The Phantom Menace and the release of the actual movie. This devil looking dude with a double sided lightsaber, no one had ever seen such a thing...