Obi-Wan Kenobi

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Season 1
  • Network: Disney+
  • Series Premiere Date: May 27, 2022
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6.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 562 Ratings

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  3. Negative: 167 out of 562
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  1. MariusL
    May 28, 2022
    1
    Absolutely Horrible. Nothing is canon anymore with disney star wars. Just expect that Disney and KK will do anything and everything to take a dump on the star wars you know and love. Enjoy.
  2. RYRY
    May 27, 2022
    0
    Shockingly bad. Disney some how manages to further desecrate the Star Wars universe with each new tv series. The exception to that may be The Mandalorian. The child actor playing Leia flat out sucks and people thought Jake Lloyd was bad. The first two episodes are totally tone deaf and jarring. Someone mentioned this already, but it really is like watching a modern sitcom or a fanfic.
  3. UncleWillard
    May 28, 2022
    3
    If the first two episodes are any indicator of the rest of this series, it's in trouble. After The Mandalorian and Fett, this feels like cutting room footage, stitched together just to fill in a gap from the prequels yo the original. McGregor is fine as an aging Kenobi, but everything else is showing its age. After the horrible sequels and the new shows, I find I can't stand the good guysIf the first two episodes are any indicator of the rest of this series, it's in trouble. After The Mandalorian and Fett, this feels like cutting room footage, stitched together just to fill in a gap from the prequels yo the original. McGregor is fine as an aging Kenobi, but everything else is showing its age. After the horrible sequels and the new shows, I find I can't stand the good guys anymore. The Jedi suck. Everything about them has been turned to **** I'm way more interested in everything else besides the Jedi. Seems like the galaxy needed the culling element of the Empire to set things straight. The prequels got us to hate a little boy, this got me to hate a little girl. There's just something cheezy about the whole thing. Like what's Obi-Wan's job? Butchery in the Desert? Why?! I'm not impressed.… Expand
  4. NotARat
    May 30, 2022
    3
    Extraordinarily disappointed. Story is flat-out lazy. Directing, sets, costumes are lazy and cheap. I truly cannot understand how Disney manages to screw this franchise up. You have access to the most talented writers, directors, designers, actors, etc on the planet and everything ends up extremely poorly executed. Sorry, but those chase scenes were abysmal. Absolutely disgraceful. TheExtraordinarily disappointed. Story is flat-out lazy. Directing, sets, costumes are lazy and cheap. I truly cannot understand how Disney manages to screw this franchise up. You have access to the most talented writers, directors, designers, actors, etc on the planet and everything ends up extremely poorly executed. Sorry, but those chase scenes were abysmal. Absolutely disgraceful. The story just sucks. Deborah Chow cannot direct. The scenes are clunky, fragmented, and awkward. The inquisitors costumes look like they came from the Halloween section at CVS. It’s ObiWan and Vader for crying out loud. Make the show awesome, or don’t make it! Sad time to be a Star Wars fan.… Expand
  5. Xilba
    May 28, 2022
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Based on the opening two episodes, Disney continues to make hash of the original trilogy through needless 'gap-filling' supplements to the Skywalker saga. Here we have a decidedly unheroic Obi-Wan whose pessimism is largely attributed to his failure to save an apprentice he knew from the start was a potentially dangerous Force-wielder. So, for the second time, following Luke's childish abandonment of the Resistance in the Disney sequels, a noble figure from the original trilogy is laid low by dubious attempts to 'deepen' the character. Why couldn't Obi-Wan have been conflicted about his duty to Luke on some insignificant Outer Rim planet when he could have been helping the emerging Rebellion? But no, the show's creators went for an easy 'redemption' character arc that frustrates our expectations for no good reason.

    What's worse is the story doesn't compel Obi-Wan to figure things out. During the initial kidnapping plot, sheer coincidence leads him to the brigands holding ten-year-old Leia. A child grifter approaches him and directs him to a supposed Jedi just because he looks lost. Then the fake Jedi tells Obi-Wan where to go when he could have just as easily lied. (Later on, coincidence assumes an even greater role when the fake Jedi helps Obi-Wan for reasons entirely unearned but necessary to force a climactic confrontation.) There's no detective work required of Obi-Wan, just walking around, waiting for others to tell him what to do next.

    In terms of acting, while Ewan McGregor gives a creditable, though not especially nuanced performance, the dialogue doesn't do him any favors as characters routinely speak in rote, comic book shorthand, simply announcing their feelings and motives. The rest of the cast seems game but out of their depth, particularly Moses Ingraham and the other paper-thin Inquisitors and the hapless tyke playing a precocious and wholly unlikeable version of Leia.

    Not even the action and effects can save this show from the 'barely watchable' category. In the first two episodes alone we're treated to not one but two chase scenes in which the aforementioned ten-year-old outruns grown-ups who should've scooped her up in seconds. The Jedi defending the Padawans in the prologue doesn't need more than a single stroke to cut down any of her foes. The Inquisitors lose their initial prey because he Force-lowers a bit of awning. Obi-Wan exchanges blaster fire across rooftops in the most boring fashion imaginable. There's virtually no suspense or tension to any of it.

    One additional annoyance is that the show seems intent on introducing new contradictions to the Skywalker saga. How is it a third-rate Inquisitor is able to determine Obi-Wan's association with Bail Organa and infer Leia's importance by simply reviewing Imperial records? If that's the case, why isn't Bail Organa and by extension, Obi-Wan, hounded by the Inquisitors and/or Darth Vader up until the beginning of Ep. 4? Why doesn't Leia ever mention to Luke that she had an adventure with Obi-Wan when she was a child? You'd think something like that would have been a comfort when Luke was grieving over his mentor's death. Why is Darth Vader's identity as Anakin Skywalker known to low-level Inquisitors when it's apparently unknown to the Rebel Alliance at the beginning of Ep. 4, including Bail Organa, who actually knew Anakin before his heel turn? Rumors like that don't travel as far as Alderaan?

    The sad fact is that what the franchise lost in the transition to Disney is the understanding that these characters are archetypes in the same sense as figures from mythology. Not that they can't be complex, but in the main, they should act from a consistent set of well-defined principles. The Mandolorian hinted at a return to this understanding with its early Sergio Leone-style western episodes but ultimately it, too, got mired in the wrongheaded decision to revisit elements of the original Skywalker saga that don't require or even deserve explanation. Knowing what to leave out of a story is as important as knowing what to put in. Disney seems to have forgotten that principle.    … Expand
  6. emirbud
    Jun 3, 2022
    0
    Disaster. Unbelievably stupid. Also boring. Truly a masterpiece of awfulness. Stay away at all cost.
  7. dr_heartless
    May 27, 2022
    0
    Boring, dull and lifeless. Every performance is low energy and flat. All the shots are static two shots with a little push in to try and have some kind of movement. The story is dumb and lacks tension. Most of the run time is eaten up with long travel shots. If your a Star Wars fan I'm sure this is okay but it won't bring back old fans or bring in new ones.
  8. Ebola8MyFace
    May 27, 2022
    2
    It gets a couple of points for Ewan's acting and commitment to the role, but the show itself is shallow, lazy and looks cheap. There's nothing fresh or interesting here. Instead of weird and imaginative (two elements that made Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back the stuff of legends), Kenobi plays it safe with nostalgia and formula - even reusing the child/protector trope from The Mandolorian!
  9. Daashdume
    May 29, 2022
    2
    Can't remember the last time i saw something so horrendous in the star wars universe.
    Avoid at all cost.
  10. cainezen
    Jun 1, 2022
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Lowered score after 3rd episode. Every part of this show is great, when Ewan McGregor is on screen. Every other part, to include the overly aggressive, overacting 3rd Sister, and her inquisitors turn it into a cartoon of a show. The 3rd Sister actress seems very green. Her scenes just don't feel polished and her acting seems lower than most of the others. This applies to several background or second tier characters as well though. The child actor for Leia is also not great and this entire series arc feels unnecessary to me. Overall after three episodes, I'm not interested in this series at all.… Expand
  11. deck
    May 28, 2022
    0
    I didn't think much of the trailer and also of the other Star Wars series. The first episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi again confirms that Disney continues to produce cheaply and completely devalues ​​and sucks the Star Wars brand in order to get as many subscribers as possible.
  12. OlivierPiel
    May 27, 2022
    0
    Cheap. Cheap production, decors, ideas, writing. I remember when Star Wars felt like a galactic opera bigger than the universe, a great liberating force for all us kids of the 70s and 80s. This merely feels like a cheap copy of a copy (Mandalorian) of a copy. I guess the "Meme" generation deservers that....
  13. sliderh2o
    Jun 19, 2022
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This just keeps getting worse and worse LOL. Did they actually watch this after they made the final cut? This show is the worst, full of plot holes, teleporting inquisitors...what the? Not to mention the main bad"girl" is killing people to get at Vadar...lmao. Who wrote this trash? I give it a 3 because 1: Light sabers 2: Vadar 3: Obi Wan...the rest of this steaming pile can go away....If it isn't John Favreau it isn't Star Wars, plain and simple.… Expand
  14. bignoisedoyle
    Aug 10, 2022
    0
    Powerful! diverse! brave!

    only joking

    It was quite **** , actually hard to believe how far from grace this franchise has fallen. Obi_Wan is yet another hero to be crapped on, to big up characters no one really wants.
  15. mflatt2086
    Jun 20, 2022
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This show isn’t about Obi Wan. This is the Reva series. It’s a bait and switch. Vader would never spare anyone’s life who knows his origins. This is content for content sake. I can’t ever fathom why this series needed to be made. There are cool moments but overall it’s a waste.… Expand
  16. Broyax
    Jun 26, 2022
    1
    Cette nouvelle série fait le lien entre l’épisode III et IV de la saga… on y suit un Obi-Wan esseulé, traqué par l’Empire et notamment un certain Dark Vador… Mais avant cela (c’est-à-dire jusqu’à la moitié) on suit surtout trois guignols (des « Inquisiteurs ») dont une actrice noire très méchante aussi peu crédible que caricaturale, qui sort d’on ne sait où et qui a bien du mal avec son «Cette nouvelle série fait le lien entre l’épisode III et IV de la saga… on y suit un Obi-Wan esseulé, traqué par l’Empire et notamment un certain Dark Vador… Mais avant cela (c’est-à-dire jusqu’à la moitié) on suit surtout trois guignols (des « Inquisiteurs ») dont une actrice noire très méchante aussi peu crédible que caricaturale, qui sort d’on ne sait où et qui a bien du mal avec son « personnage » aussi caricatural que…. peu crédible et fruit d’un agenda woke progressiste.

    C’est qu’ici, à part Obi-Wan (bien campé par McGregor) et Vador (Christensen de retour sous le masque) tout sonne étonnamment faux et sent le réchauffé… En effet, dans The Mandolorian, le casqué trimbalait bébé Yoda et là… c’est Kenobi qui promène la gamine Leia dans toute la galaxie, une gamine tout aussi mal caractérisée que le reste, et accessoirement une pisseuse insupportable et ridicule.

    Les deux derniers épisodes de la série (sur les six seulement) signent l’effondrement d’un scénario qui part en vrille et qui nous sert en toute décontraction des rebondissements complètement aberrants… on n’en revient pas : c’est vraiment n’importe quoi !

    Malgré une réalisation et des effets spéciaux de bon aloi (pour une série s’entend), « Obi-Wan Kenobi » loupe donc le coche et bien des opportunités de développement des enjeux à venir entre la prélogie (déjà bâclée par Geroges, le nain de jardin lui-même) et la trilogie originale. Bref, un non-évènement en soi, résultat de l’ogre Disniais toujours prompt à salir toutes les licences dont il dispose… malgré ici ou là quelques rares bonnes idées lors des deux premiers épisodes mais qui font long feu, hélas.    … Expand
  17. metacritiqueur
    Jul 14, 2022
    3
    There are just two fights to remember, the rest is only there to sell new toy characters. A series that you will watch once, but not several like movies. Speaking of movies: episode III with 68 metacritic from professionals against 73 meta for this cw series. laughable....
  18. Harrythepottter
    Jun 4, 2022
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I had so much hope for this show since obi Wan has been my favorite character since I was a child. Unfortunately it proved to be just another attempt by Disney to break down a well loved character. The man took down two sith apprentices plus grievous but somehow is a shambling mess when faced with a new strong female villain. The villain herself wasn't the greatest actress but atleast she had more of the empire/sith mindset. Somehow the other inquisitors have a moral code when it comes to kidnapping children, when we all know the empire is evil and will stop at nothing to finish off the jedi even if it means destroying entire planets. The chase scene in the second episode felt like I was watching a power rangers episode.it was plain to see her tiny legs couldn't run so how do the writers make up for it? "Oh just have them wave their arms around and run into objects they could clearly see in advance". I know it was a chase involving a six year old Leia but this is where good writing can save you. It just feels like Disney doesn't understand star wars or its characters mentalities or even cares to. It shows with the sequels and is now showing again with Kenobi. The Mandolorian was such a breathe of fresh air. Unfortunately this show is like getting sucked back under the waves… Expand
  19. suprep
    Jun 5, 2022
    0
    This is the worst Star Wars series to date. It's even worse than Book of Boba Fett. It has terrible acting, writing, characters and directing. Episodes 1 and 2 were bad already but episode 3 managed to make this series even worse. There is no room for redemption for this garbage and anyone who rates this positively has no credibility.

    Do yourself a favour and skip it or atleast do not    This is the worst Star Wars series to date. It's even worse than Book of Boba Fett. It has terrible acting, writing, characters and directing. Episodes 1 and 2 were bad already but episode 3 managed to make this series even worse. There is no room for redemption for this garbage and anyone who rates this positively has no credibility.

    Do yourself a favour and skip it or atleast do not give Disney money for slaughtering Star Wars once again.    … Expand
  20. HammerOfThorium
    Jun 6, 2022
    1
    What an utter dissapointment. The character of Obi-Wan had been turned into a cowardly, inept, dottering fool for the most contrived of reasons. Every aspect of the show, with perhaps the exception of the music, is genuinely poor. I shan't delve into spoilers, but needless to say it is best avoided for anyone who cares about Star Wars.
  21. louielouie51
    Jun 6, 2022
    1
    It’s total bait and switch, TLJ garbage and Reeeevvvvaaaaa is awful. Her accent and character are really bad. She stinks up every scene in a show about Obi l-Wan. Leia is insufferable also. Why is Obi-Wan a weak feeble old man??? Why does a Kathleen Kennedy continue to abuse the old cast for some lame ass new character that doesn’t belong??? Luke and Obi-Wan have been turned into garbageIt’s total bait and switch, TLJ garbage and Reeeevvvvaaaaa is awful. Her accent and character are really bad. She stinks up every scene in a show about Obi l-Wan. Leia is insufferable also. Why is Obi-Wan a weak feeble old man??? Why does a Kathleen Kennedy continue to abuse the old cast for some lame ass new character that doesn’t belong??? Luke and Obi-Wan have been turned into garbage due to Disney and Kennedy…How did Reeeevvvaaa get ahead of Leia in the end of episode three??? Reeevvvvaaa is bad casting and can not act in this role. Reeevvvaaa doesn’t belong!!! Where is Obi-Wan kicking ass and being a bad ass all the way through the show?? Instead we get a lame character that is a Batman spin-off or Jesus Sith….this show had lots of potential but is overshadowed to empower a lame duck side character…Kennedy will go down as the worst part of Disney with her feminist woke agenda…… Expand
  22. Uriels
    Jun 3, 2022
    0
    Decided to drop in as there seems to be an orchestrated bout of shill bombing from Disney+ in response to what actual viewers put here after watching the ep.03. Humans also need to actively respond.

    So. We have a show from the company most famous from publicly thanking the owners of Uyghur concentration camps for letting them shoot footage near those very camps. The show has Ewan    Decided to drop in as there seems to be an orchestrated bout of shill bombing from Disney+ in response to what actual viewers put here after watching the ep.03. Humans also need to actively respond.

    So. We have a show from the company most famous from publicly thanking the owners of Uyghur concentration camps for letting them shoot footage near those very camps.

    The show has Ewan McGregor playing some lowlife blaster jockey who certainly is not Obi-Wan Kenobi, which is a bit strange for Ewan McGregor to do in a series titled "Obi-Wan Kenobi".

    The show also has a big guy in Black Helmet who, after killing some bystanders, surprisingly turns out not to be Darth Vader, just some idiot who wears the costume and speaks menacingly.

    It has 3 stooges implied to be Sith Inquisitors which is funny since obviously none of them is a Sith, even if the Type B of Power seems to have inclinations. She might one day become a Sith if only she manages to make a facial expression other than that of annoyed constipation. I guess another bit of canon went out the window and suddenly the evil, supremacist Sith Empire is no longer racist :D

    The show also has the fastest 10yo in the universe, whose waddling is faster than the run of 3 professional bounty hunters and of a guy called, by other characters in the show, a Jedi. The 10yo has mental capacity of a stunned bull in the slaughterhouse, behaving like a complete idiot (on 10yo scale, no one sane expects a 10yo child to give psychoanalytic speeches or jump from a roof and blame someone else for it). The show seems to suggest that this lump of idiocy somehow will grow into the smart, resourceful and charming princess Leia.

    The score is mostly due to the title which made me expect a Star Wars show. Otherwise I'd keep a point or two for CGI and music.    … Expand
  23. trawl45th
    Jun 6, 2022
    3
    The plot makes no sense whatsoever. Again and again the characters do some insane nonsense. Paying any close attention to the show gets punished. Grown adults can't catch children, characters teleport for no reason, bad guys give up insanely easily, and Obi-wan is completely impotent. The direction and writing are simply awful. Don't waste you're time,
  24. 1226
    Jun 10, 2022
    2
    I don't know who wrote this but they've never seen a Star Wars show in their light cannon means nothing to them. The special effects are weak the music is lacking and overall acting is Sub par
  25. AgentoftheBat
    Jun 1, 2022
    0
    Star Wars was done when Disney bought the rights from George Lucas. We didn't know it then but it's clear now and becomes clearer with each passing terrible show, film, comic or novel that Disney spews out. Obi-Wan is just another example in the increasingly long list of failures. Not even the presence of Ewan McGregor can save it. If you are a true Star Wars fan, avoid!
  26. Hairlesssheep
    May 28, 2022
    2
    Special effects and CGI are all these Disney money traps seem to be, but to be fair a lot of the time I tell myself I don't like a show these days is because it was made for kids.
  27. Zoolybebe
    May 30, 2022
    0
    Ignore all the children and bots giving this show a 10. The cringe level is on par with boba Fett series. Not even the obi wan factor can save this series. Lazy writing mixed with woke agenda is always a recipe for disaster.
  28. TellGoodStories
    Jun 4, 2022
    3
    Update Anyone else notice that all the new positive reviews (that recently popped up after episode 3) have no user history? It looks like the same thing is happening on RT

    The Force is weak with this one .... The acting of almost everyone else (except for EM and JE) just feels shallow. Including all the villains. The Special effects (and choreography) aren't that special - it feels a    Update Anyone else notice that all the new positive reviews (that recently popped up after episode 3) have no user history? It looks like the same thing is happening on RT

    The Force is weak with this one .... The acting of almost everyone else (except for EM and JE) just feels shallow. Including all the villains. The Special effects (and choreography) aren't that special - it feels a little better than what you might see on Doctor Who. I'm honestly thinking of giving up my Disney subscription. I was hoping that the Book of Bobba was just an aberration. Since this is based on the first three episodes, I'll revise if needed. (Update - I actually felt like laughing watching the big Vader / Obiwan encounter - it was that underwhelming - Obiwan ran just about as clumsily as Leia, Vader was presented in a weird way - weak, inconsistent with how he's been portrayed in the past). Why can't they get directors that are passionately committed to the material. Disney's goal in life is to troll the fans who've been with the franchise the longest.    … Expand
  29. jc3113
    Jun 3, 2022
    1
    Ahsoka: I won't leave you. Not this time. Obi-wan: ...... ( flee ) May the force be with this series.
  30. CinemaBoi
    Jun 5, 2022
    1
    Feels like it was written by a third-grader. Looks like a low-budget Star Trek episode.
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Metascore
73

Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Darren Franich
    Jun 22, 2022
    42
    Obi-Wan had a larger problem: It was dumb as a rock. Simple rules of spatial logic went out the window. Main characters kept almost killing each other, and then walking away long enough for their wounded opponent could recover.
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  2. The Daily Beast
    Reviewed by: Nick Schager
    May 27, 2022
    80
    McGregor is wholly up to the challenge of shouldering the emotional weight of this series, which feels less like a cynical cash grab (despite being that) than a natural continuation of the saga that Lucas crafted more than two decades ago.
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  3. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Richard Roeper
    May 27, 2022
    75
    Ewan McGregor was last seen as Obi-Wan, he brings more depth, more of a world-weary wisdom to the role. ... As is the case with many a “Star Wars” title, the dialogue sometimes borders on the corny, but director Deborah Chow (“The Mandalorian”) has a keen sense of pacing and a distinct visual style that holds our interest even in the quieter moments. “Obi-Wan Kenobi” is off to a roaring start.
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