Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord did not waste any time getting right into the crux of the action. The new animated series, which premiered on Disney+ on April 6, used its opening episodes to set up one of the franchise's favorite storytelling devices, a prison break. After engineering a gang war between rival crime lords Nico Deemis and Looti Vario on the planet Janix, Maul watches his plan succeed when Vario kills Deemis. Maul instructs his crew to go after Vario next, only for him to be rescued and arrested by Detective Brander Lawson in the middle of their hunt. Rather than let the man have peace in his prison cell, Maul and his crew storm the police station and seize Vario. While doing so, he senses the presence of Devon Izara, a Twi'lek Padawan in the opposite cell, and takes her captive too, seeing in her a potential apprentice. Star Wars Read full article on The Direct.