If I was a kid, this would be my favorite show of all time. I am not a kid but I am finding it enjoyable.
The kids are very well cast and as with all the Disney Star Wars shows, there seems to be tons of money on the screen. Most of the episodes seem to be “stunt-cast” with feature directors (what suddenly famous Gen X director wouldn’t want to direct Star Wars?), and there’s a lot of style to the helming.
They lean pretty hard on the pirate stuff—does anybody actually care about pirates?—but making the kids’ home planet the treasure (spoiler, sorry) is ingenious.
I like Mick Giacchino’s main theme, especially the end credits version where it’s presented more as, well, music, and not dressed up in cuey scoring.
There’s a little narrative confusion as to whose story this is, the Jude Law character or the kids. The longer it goes on, the more obvious it is that the kids are the ones who don’t change (they’re normal i.e. good kids) and Jude Law is the one who does, going from a scumbag to somebody who cares. This works, but when just the kids are on screen, they have the classic plural-protagonists problem of differentiating who is who (as far as character traits) and who wants what.
But I’m liking it.