Hello! Welcome to the Sept. 27, 2025, edition of the Saturday Wrap. Here’s everything you might of missed from The Omnicosm.
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‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ are contractually obligated to be here
Do you remember when The Mandalorian first premiered and it felt special? Here was the first live-action Star Wars show, complete with an intriguing protagonist, a killer score and the reveal that THERE WAS A BABY YODA.
But then over the next two seasons, Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni turned The Mandalorian into a bloated collection of nostalgia bait (it’s R5-D4!), live-action versions of animated characters (Ahsoka! Bo-Katan!) and the stubborn insistence of not recasting Mark Hamill with an actual human being to play Luke Skywalker. There was also the odd move where Lucasfilm dropped the story of how Din Djarin and Grogu reunited after the Season 2 finale in The Book of Boba Fett, an entirely different show that Disney seems to pretend doesn’t exist. (Where’s the steelbook, Disney?)
Favreau, Filoni and everyone over at Lucasfilm and Disney will never admit it, but I’m positive that a planned fourth season of The Mandalorian was reshuffled into The Mandalorian and Grogu, an upcoming theatrical release that’ll be the first Star Warsmovie since The Rise of Skywalker stumbled across big screens way back in December 2019. (Moana 2’s $1.059 billion worldwide gross showed that a TV-to-movie transformation can rake in a ton of money.)
Lucasfilm released the first trailer for The Mandalorian and Grogu on Monday, and, well, um ... it’s a trailer.
While Snackology is all about new, fun and often gimmicky additions to the candy aisle, I often find myself called toward a Crunch bar while making a gas/bathroom/snack stop on a trip.
There’s something about that very specific chocolate taste and those tiny crispy bits. Growing up, a Crunch bar was a step above your traditional Hershey’s chocolate bar. (And the level right before you — gasp! — made the jump to a candy bar with nuts in it.)
At the same time, I won’t shy away from a white chocolate twist on a standard candy bar. (The Butterfinger Marshmallow bar that I recently tried was pretty good.) I remember tracking down white chocolate Reese’s Cups in the Wegmans bulk candy section with my uncle when I was a kid. There just wasn’t the wealth of options when it came to candy back in the day.
And now we have the Crunch White bar, a white chocolate twist on the classic Crunch bar.
The Omnicosm founder. Popculturology, Deep SNL Thoughts and Snackology writer. A Rochester, N.Y., native now living in the Washington, D.C., area. Won’t pass up a Genny Cream Ale.
The first trailer for the new ‘Star Wars’ movie puts in a minimal amount of effort. PLUS: Trailers for ‘Wicked: For Good,’ ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash,’ Villeneuve’s Bond to be a ‘fresh face,’ and ‘Beyond the Spider-Verse’ shifts release date.
Bill Kuchman
Bill Kuchman
Bill Kuchman
