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Andor’s First Season Finale Made Star Wars Better
Andor’s season one finale, “Rix Road,” capped off a journey taken by many, not just one, in a perfect hour of television. Diego Luna solidified Cassian as one of the most important characters in the canon — retroactively at that — and the Lucasfilm series, led by Tony Gilroy, proved it’s simply operating on a…
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On Andor, There’s No Escaping the Growing Wrath of the Empire
There’s really nowhere to run for most of our heroes in “Nobody’s Listening!”This episode of Andor, directed by Toby Haynes and written by Beau Willimon, oozes the shameless evil of the Empire as its loyalists find more unconventional ways to shake out anyone who stands in their way. The facade is almost completely stripped away…
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Andor Just Dropped Its Fantastic Club Beat to Stream
Andor does so much, so well, in a way that it makes itself feel unlike any other piece of Star Wars while also being the Star Wars-iest thing around. Its music is just one highlight of that, and this week the show gave us a hypnotic beat that we can’t get out of our heads…
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Andor Gives Everyone a Reason for Rebellion
Everything is moving into place as Andor edges closer to the heist on Aldhani. On this week’s episode “The Ax Forgets”, directed by Susanna White, delivers another tension filled slow burn of a Star Wars story. The Dan Gilroy written preamble to the heist really digs into the inner workings of strangers being brought together…