Unexpected weekend with Pedro Pascal as a father figure

Unlike with last month’s Saoirse Ronan Appreciation Week, this weekend’s Pedro Pascal as a father figure marathon was wholly accidental. I ended up watching the newest Fantastic Four movie, The Last of Us’s first season and The Mandalorian and Groku. Only when I was watching him as Mandalorian, I realised the common thread with all of these is him being a father figure: to his son Franklin, to his daughter Sarah, to Ellie and to his protégé Groku. Here’s my spoiler free mini reviews for all three! The Fantastic Four: First Steps As a kid, I was obsessed with the Fantastic Four. Some of the more recent retellings have been better than the others. As a kid, I often related mostly with Ben Grimm as I was always a bit of an outcast kid. This introduction of them to the Marvel Cinematic Universe is one of the better ones. I'm not excited about the casting (other than Pedro Pascal who is fantastic, no pun intended) but over the course of the movie they all started to grow on me. The 1960s…