Andor and Obi-Wan got Emmy nominations for best drama and best limited series. Nothing for Mandalorian, which feels correct to me. Andor was the best thing I watched last year, regardless of genre.
I wasn't nearly that high on Andor, but I did think it ended up being quite good after an initial lull.
I didn't care as much for Obi-Wan. It had the potential to be great, but I think they pulled punches while detracting from the lore of Vader.
I feel like they had a real tight window to work with regarding Obi-Wan. There wasn't much wiggle room to what they could do creatively that wouldn't screw up canon.
In retrospect, they probably should've just left it alone and did nothing although it was great to see McGregor and Christenson again
It still could have been good though. The acting, dialogue, sets, and characters just aren't as convincing as they should be.
In "Obi-wan" we see members of the Path, oppressed Imperial citizens on the run from the government. They are so boring and vanilla, you could seamlessly swap them out with similarly lazy characters from Star Trek: Insurrection or a dozen other mediocre fantasy efforts.
Compare that with the disillusioned, downtrodden populace in "Andor," or the gritty, determined rebels from the OT. "Obi-wan" lacks that talented touch to bring the characters to life in such a way that you actually care.
And the CGI.... man. For those who don't know, Disney abuses a technology called "the Volume," which is a literal physical wall which surrounds their sets like a giant wraparound TV. The actors get the advantage of being able to "see" a desert background etc. But in reality it means the actual immediate set is extremely limited, and what they're doing is glorified green screen work.
Note that "Andor" did NOT use this tech.
https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/20/how-the-mandalorian-and-ilm-invisibly-reinvented-film-and-tv-production/One other quibble: where are the British actors? One of Star Wars' great strengths in the OT was all the British talent. And I'm not just talking about Alec Guinness or Peter Cushing. A lot of the lesser characters were played by British actors, in particular the Imperials. You could feel the class/power disparity just in the accents. I know it's a trope, but it works.