Could (Or Should) The Book Of Boba Fett Get A Season 2?

The Book of Boba Fett has just aired its season 1 finale, the end of a strange string of episodes which included more or less what felt like 2.5 episodes of The Mandalorian season 3. Those episodes didn’t just star him, they dramatically altered the ending of season 2, and as such, The Book of Boba Fett is a mandatory watch for Mandalorian fans, as you will be extremely confused by season 3 if you skipped his arc this season.

But now the question remains: Will The Book of Boba Fett be back for season 2? Should it?

For Disney’s part, they’ve said nothing, and yet The Book of Boba Fett was also never pitched like a one-off miniseries necessarily either. However, now that we’ve seen the season, it very much feels like something Disney threw together when they realized the actual Mandalorian series 3 would not be ready in time for a winter debut, likely in part due to Pedro Pascal filming The Last of Us for HBO.

The result has been…strange. The Book of Boba Fett is the lowest rated Star Wars or Marvel series Disney Plus has seen in terms of critic and audience scores. In terms of viewership and demand, Parrot Analytics reports that interest in the series dramatically increased in episode 5 and beyond, which was the episode that was wholly devoted to The Mandalorian and had nothing to do with Boba Fett or his storyline at all.

The Book of Boba Fett also does not end with many, if any, loose threads (finale spoilers follow). Fett and Fennec end the season killing off all their rivals and chasing the Pyke Syndicate away from Tatooine. There was some fan speculation that some larger figure was going to be revealed as pulling the strings of the Pykes (a common guess was Darth Maul, who at this point is dead, in Star Wars canon, killed by Obi-Wan. No not that time, another time). But there were no teases like that at the end of the season. The post-credits scene was of side character Cobb Vanth being healed from an injury in Fett’s bacta tank, but he could easily just be used in The Mandalorian again.

Given how The Book of Boba Fett went, and how The Mandalorian is about to get back on track with a new season in the coming year, I just don’t see a need for the show to exist in Disney’s line-up. I mean, maybe Fett or Fennec could show up in other series like The Mandalorian itself, but I don’t know if we need another run of this. Plus, Disney is about to spool up a lot more Star Wars shows, Kenobi, Ahsoka and Andor among them, so there will be no shortage of Star Wars content.

The Book of Boba Fett gave us our Mandalorian fix at the cost of bringing us a pretty weird interpretation of a classic character in a not very compelling story. You can’t win them all, but I don’t see a reason to try this again.

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