Star Wars is relatively new to live-action TV, so it has quite a bit of catching up to do. So far, we’ve seen an episodic adventure-of-the-week series (The Mandalorian), a nostalgic follow-up mini-series (Obi-Wan Kenobi), a Indigenous-themed crime thriller (The Book of Boba Fett), a prequel-to-a-prequel (Andor), a live-action companion series to an animated series (Ahsoka), and a purposefully unrelated meditation on good and evil (The Acolyte.)
While all of these worked as TV shows, there’s one TV subgenre that is more or less considered the ultimate acheivement: the mystery box. Mystery box shows all revolve around a central question, teased and complicated with every following episode, before finally coming to a satisfying conclusion — something that’s incredibly difficult to pull off. However, the latest Star Wars series, Skeleton Crew, may have just positioned itself as the first Star Wars mystery box series.
