Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord: Chapter 1 "The Dark Revenge" and Chapter 2 "Sinister Schemes"
Children of the Watch: A Star Wars After Show
Children of the Watch
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2026
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord has arrived, and it's even better than we hoped! Join Children of the Watch as we break down the first two chapters of Maul - Shadow Lord: The Dark Revenge and Sinister Schemes. We go in depth discussing the events of the show, pointing out connections to the larger Star Wars universe, and predicting what we think may happen next! You won't want to miss this first deep dive into our favorite Star Wars Anti-Hero.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Children of the Watch. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm Mack Lacey. |
| 0:14.6 | And I'm Alex Maxwell, and today we are breaking down chapter one and two of Mall |
| 0:20.6 | Shadow Lord. |
| 0:22.2 | If you're new to our podcast, we break down every single episode of Star Wars television, |
| 0:26.8 | scene by scene to analyze the story, find comfort Easter eggs, and explain how it all connects |
| 0:33.1 | to the larger Star Wars universe. |
| 0:35.8 | And I'm so excited to be doing that for this show. |
| 0:40.2 | What an incredible opening this was to the show. |
| 0:45.6 | Yeah, yeah, absolutely. |
| 0:47.7 | I am just after this first week, I am, you know, hook line and sinker. |
| 0:53.0 | This show is everything I wanted it to be, and it's so surprising and how much more it's also delivering. |
| 1:01.6 | I mean, we're going to be talking about everything from the story to the, you know, what we think about the visual design and all that kind of stuff. |
| 1:09.4 | But stunning animation. Oh, my goodness. I mean, Luke is still animation. the, you know, what we think about the visual design and all that kind of stuff, but, uh, stunning |
| 1:11.2 | animation. Uh, I mean, Lucasill animation. |
| 1:14.9 | Beautiful to, to just look at. Yeah. And they like, they just continue to top themselves. |
| 1:20.2 | You know, I was like, like, like, watching the bad batch, I was like, this is, this is as good as this |
| 1:24.7 | can get. It looks like so, it's like almost imperceptible from live action at times. |
| 1:29.7 | And then we've got even a like it's it's just a different iteration on it. I love the stylized |
| 1:35.9 | backgrounds and all that for this. Um, it so they they continue to just, uh, raise the bar visually for |
| 1:44.1 | animation in a big way. |
| 1:45.7 | And the story is way more mature than I thought it would be. |
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