Andor is the latest Star Wars live action show to come to Disney+ and its actually really damn good.
If you have wanted a grittier Star Wars more akin to Rogue One than to The Force Awakens this is it. Unlike The Book Of Boba Fett which was basically the TV show version of an identity crisis Andor actually gives us the seedy underbelly of the Star Wars universe. Disneys only mistake here so far as I can tell was releasing the first three episodes as three separate episodes. They form one coherent chapter in this shows run and should have been released as a single longer episode instead. I think this would have been better for audiences. Anyone who stopped after the first or second episode might have felt confused or letdown.
Watching all three consecutively gets you a pretty fascinating arc that not only introduces Cassian Andors backstory but gives us some really top notch action and suspense. The action sequences in the third episode are truly outstanding, including one shoot-out in a factory warehouse with giant metal beams falling all around as the good guys and bad guys engage in a tense shootout.Andor Diego Luna is little more than a petty thief at this point. He owes money all around town and seems to be constantly cooking up a new scheme though he has no fan of the Empire something he makes clear when he meets a mysterious buyer of stolen goods Luthen Rael Stellan Skarsgård.
The young thief has gotten himself in trouble for real this time, however. He visits a very cyberpunk club in the first episode where he has harassed by a pair of hostile security guards perhaps a little too far into their cups. He has looking for his sister they are looking for trouble. When he leaves they follow and soon theres an altercation in which Andar accidentally kills one of the guards. He can not leave a witness so he kills the second guard in cold blood.
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