TV Review: *****Andor Season 2 (2025)

 Andor Season 1

Andor Seson 2 dropped 12 episodes, in a month, 3 a week for four consecutive weeks.  They are now all available on Disney +.  

This series has been great fun.  The character of Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) is very intriguing and conflicted.  Added to this is Luthen Rael (Stellan Starsgård) who is the master spy.  Dedra Meero (Denise Gough) is with the empire and trying to catch them.  In the end it turns on her head and she becomes the scapegoat.Her helper is Syril Karn (Kyle Soller).  And of course Mon Mothma (Genevieve O'Reilly) who says what she has to say to the Senate and is able to escape to become the leader of the rebellion.  This show has many other interesting characters.  It tells the story leading up to Rogue One and A New Hope.  It is vrery well done and the feel of the show is just right.  This is Star Wars without light sabers.  Not everyone is s Jedi.

Disney+ TV Review: ****^Star Wars: Andor 2022

 Andor is incredibly good as it keeps building until we hit the climax in the last episode.  Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) is nothing more than a mercenary or thief.  He is recruited by a rebel organizer, Luthen Rael (Stellen Skarsgärd) He and Mon Mothma (Genevieve O'Reilly) work together in funding the rebellion.  Andor and some other reels carry out a successful heist of an imperial payroll, thus getting needed money for the rebellion.  Cassian hangs low, but in doing so is unjustly imprisoned.  He is set to work on some unknown device.  Escape is impossible as the floor is wired with electricity in it which is turned on at any hint of escape.  But when we realize that any sentence is a life sentence in this prison (a whole floor was killed when one was due to be released) escape becomes the goal.  

Andor's adoptive mother, Maarva (Fiona Shaw) passes away.  He must return to the funeral.  However the epire want him captured so they can torture him and learn secrets of the rebellion, particularly the identity of Luthen Rael.  Luthen Rael also wants to kill Andor so as to prevent being exposed.  It seems there is not much hope for him.  The highlight of the whole series is when Luthen's mother, through a droid, gives her own eulogy and calls for rebellion.  The tension just builds and builds to this point and finally pops.  In the chaos, Andor gives his life to Luthen.

The sage of Mon Mothma (Genevieve O'Reilly) is weaved into the other stories.  However this story did not reach its head yet.

season two