Paid Post: TV Review--"Andor" (S2, Eps. 1-3)
The first three episodes of the acclaimed "Star Wars" series show again why this is one of the best and most relevant shows currently on TV.
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Warning: Full spoilers for the series follow.
It probably won’t surprise any regular readers of this newsletter that I’m a huge fan of Andor and have been since it first aired three years ago. Even though there are times when Star Wars can feel a bit stale, and even though truly revolutionary stories like The Acolyte have been ignominiously dumped by the studio, Andor reminds us that there is still more than a magic left in this particular franchise. The second season is just as good as the first one if not better, as Andor and the other members of the fledgling Rebellion continue their long slog against the Empire.
Ah, but how much has changed since the first season graced our television screens. We’ve gone from the relatively calm and decent years of a Biden presidency to the unfolding fascist catastrophe that is Trump’s second bite at the presidential apple. As a result of this context, this series hits home in a way that it didn’t before. Now that we are in living in a formerly creaky republic that is beginning its precipitous slide into fascism and dictatorship, so the characters of Andor, both those in the Rebellion and those who are part of the Imperial machine, find that beating an empire and building and maintaining it are fraught with difficulty.