I admit I’m a sucker for the Disney+ Star Wars spin-offs even though most of them–except for The Mandalorian–are mediocre. The series starts with an attack on a space freighter by pirates. Then the scene shifts to an urban planet and a kid named Wim (Ravi Cabot-Conyers) who dreams of leaving his placid planet for adventure. And…Wim gets it when he discovers a buried starship. Two girls, Fern (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) who sports a flying jacket and rides a hover-bike and her sidekick KB (Kyriana Kratter), a tech whiz aided by a cool helmet/visor gadget (my favorite character) and Wim’s friend, Neel (Robert Timothy Smith) who looks like a blue elephant, get swept up by the starship and leave the planet…and get lost. Nick Frost extends the list of British actors to be cast in Star Wars as the voice of a snarky droid–SM-33–who has too few comic moments.

Crimson Jack (Jude Law) shows up to get the action started as the kids are desperate to return to their home planet. But, of course, their planet is a “lost” planet that was purposely hidden. I’ve only watched three of the eight episodes–a new episode drops every week–but Star Wars: Skeleton Crew has enough juice to hold my attention. Are you a Star Wars fan? GRADE: INCOMPLETE, but treading towards a B.