One of the most important moments Andor fans have waiting for happened in this week’s episode drop of the hit Star Wars series. On the last episode, following the conflict on Ghorman, Mon Mothma took to the Senate floor to deliver a damning indictment of Emperor Palpatine’s true reign of tyranny. It solidified Mon Mothma […]
Andor’s Twin Ghorman Massacres Are a Perfect Way to Re-Canonize Legends
Ever since it was first teased that Andor‘s second season was preparing to show the tragedy that set the stage for the formal formation of the Rebel Alliance, there’s similarly been discussion of the fact that there are two Ghorman Massacres. The one we are about to learn much more about in this week’s batch of episodes, and […]
Varada Sethu Always Knew Cinta Was Meant for That Destiny in Andor
This week’s riveting Andor episode arc came at quite the cost during the Ghorman armory heist. While rebel leaders and lovers Vel and Cinta were sent to aid the inexperienced Ghorman resistance, clashes were had and accidents well…happened. Actress Varada Sethu (Doctor Who), who played Cinta discussed her tragic fate with Variety. “My belief was that […]
Andor Let Saw Gerrera Be Right Again
Saw Gerrera’s post-Rogue One career has forged him into one of Star Wars‘ most fascinating elements of the Rebellion. A sometime ally and often outside detractor to the unequivocal heroes of the original films, Saw became the embodiment of an unsanitized look at the reality of resisting a totalitarian regime like the Galactic Empire, a fascinating […]
Andor Walked a Delicate Line With Its Latest Tragedy
The second act of Andor season two, among many other things, reunited insurgent lovers Vel Sartha and Cinta Kaz as part of Luthen’s attempts to scope out resistance to the Empire on Ghorman. Separated for years after the events of season one—save from a distant “reunion” at the climax of season two’s opening trio of episodes—when […]
Stellan Skarsgård Says Andor’s Strength Is in Its Heroes Not Lightsabers
Andor star Stellan Skarsgård recently appeared on the Q with Tom Power show to discuss the series’ revolution game master’s deliberate ambiguity behind the curtain. Luthen Rael, if that’s his real name, doesn’t personally use pew-pews or the Force to advance the resistance against the Empire himself and that’s always made the organizer’s motivations hard to […]
Andor’s Big Recast Should Be the Star Wars Blueprint
Coming into Andor season two, we learned the surprising fact that one big returning character in the season would no longer be played by their legacy actor. This week, we learned exactly who it was—and at a time when Star Wars has found itself on diverging paths when it comes to opening up classic characters to […]
Andor’s Tony Gilroy Knows You’re Tired of Waiting for K-2SO to Show Up
As Andor season two gets closer to the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, one clever fan-fave droid has yet to make an appearance and there’s a pretty clear reason why. K-2SO, the Imperial security droid that towers over Diego Luna as Cassian Andor and is played by pop culture lucky charm Alan […]
Don’t Expect Andor to Show the Empire’s Two Evil Head Honchos
The final season of Andor will lead directly to Rogue One, and that’s had people talking about possible cameos to tie them together. If you’ve been hoping to see either Darth Vader or Palpatine in this show, you should look elsewhere. In a recent Rolling Stone interview, creator Tony Gilroy was asked about why neither of the two villains […]
Andor and Severance’s Beau Willimon on the Joys of Collaboration
In an interview with Variety, writer Beau Willimon discussed the fan-favorite properties he’s currently a part of: he’s an executive producer on Apple TV+’s Severance and wrote episodes for both seasons of Andor. In the chat with the trade he likened writing on Star Wars to “being a session musician on someone’s album.” His collaboration […]