It’s all laser guns and hoverbikes in this gritty kinetic spy thriller which gives us the backstory to one of Rogue Ones heroes. Once a couple of slow episodes are out of the way that is …
hen word of mouth spreads about a new streaming show viewers tend to tell each other not how many episodes are in the season but how many you have to watch before the thing gets good. In the case of Andor Disney+ the latest addition to the Star Wars TV universe the magic number is three.
In its third instalment Andor finally becomes the gritty, kinetic spy thriller it has been billed as after a surfeit of thoughtful world building. Thankfully, somebody at Disney+ has their head screwed on because Andor has debuted with a triple bill. Make it through that opening marathon and you have whats shaping up to be the best Star Wars show since The Mandalorian.
This is a prequel to the movie Rogue One which was a prequel to the Star Wars film A New Hope. In Rogue One Cassian Andor Diego Luna is a top intelligence agent for the Rebel Alliance as they plan to attack the Death Star. As Andor begins its five years earlier and Cassian still played by Luna is merely a thief who likes to liberate Galactic Empire spaceship parts. When he recklessly leaves his home planet of Ferrix to visit Morlana One a corporatised hellscape he ends up as a wanted man who can stay under the political radar no longer.
At some length every scene takes four minutes to say something that could have been wrapped up in two even the opening bit where ANDOR fades up in the cool Star Wars font goes on for 35 seconds we familiarise ourselves with Cassian the lone wheeler dealer whose ducking and diving frustrate his adoptive mother Maarva Fiona Shaw hurrah faithful robot companion B2EMO and Cassians lost love headstrong mechanic Bix Caleen Adria Arjona.
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