The podcast is hosted and created by Peter "Pete the Retailer" Bonavita and Alex Robinson, and features a rotating cast of guest commentators.
Notable guests from this season that would go on to become series regulars include Tony Consiglio and Chris Radtke among others.
Before wrapping season 1, Bonavita and Robinson announced that they would be returning for The Empire Strikes Back minute.
For minutes 79 and 80 (in which Luke and Leia discuss their parentage with each other), the duo hosted another live show at Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim with guest Matt Gourley.
Bonavita and Robinson began analyzing The Phantom Menace (which they refer to as "The Naboo Movie" as part of a superstition they have)[5] on November 23, 2015. Notable guests this season include Mark Hamill's son, Nathan.
This season marked the first in which the trilogy of the film they were analyzing was not yet complete, as Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker would not be realized for another year.
Star Wars Minute has been called "the seed of a rapidly expanding podcast genre" by the pop-culture website The Ringer due to its minute-by-minute format, which has now bled into hundreds of other podcasts analyzing films such as Back to the Future, The Big Lebowski, Goodfellas, and the superhero franchises of Marvel and DC.