Can the new episodes hold the high level of the previous season and the best “Star Wars” entertainment?
With “Andor” Returns one of the most celebrated new “Star Wars” series of streaming era to Disney+. The first season published in 2022 caused enthusiasm among fans. She showed completely different, felt new corners of the wide, distant galaxy. Not Jedi Knights, the power or the Skywalker family, which has now counted, were the focus here.
Rather, showrunner Tony Gilroy (68) and his team showed how evil Galactic empire With cold, bureaucratic efficiency the population of the various star systems. At the same time, scattered over many worlds form completely Different rebel groups out that take up the struggle with the overpowering enemy.
This also closes Season 2 from “Andor” seamlessly. In Twelve episodesthe weekly too Blocks from three episodes appear on the streaming service Disney+, the gripping story of rebel pilot Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), spy master Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård) and Senator Mon Mothma (Genevieve O'reilly) will be further retired. The second season is unfortunately the last of the show. It leads directly to the events of the Prequel film “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”.
At what time from “Star Wars” does “Andor” play?
The “Star Wars” universe will increasingly look over to overlook for occasional viewers. But “Andor” plays at a very clearly defined time of the great, coherent story. It is the years before the first victory of the rebellion, the destruction of the Death Star by Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Princess Leia in the first published movie “Star Wars: Episode IV – A new hope” from 1977.
The empire, led by Imperator Palpatine and Darth Vader, is still in full bloom here – and, as fans know, at the same time before the beginning of his collapse.
That happens in “Andor”, season two
At this point, spectators of “Andor” meet the well -known figures from season one. Antique dealers Luthen and his assistant Kleya (Elizabeth Dulau) organize individual cells of the resulting rebellion on the city planet Coruscant, while Mon Mothma is forced to marry her daughter out of political calculation. At the glamorous wedding celebration, the senator wrestles with a serious decision.
The former cynic and opportunist Cassian Andor, however, chose the rebellion at the end of season one. In the first moments of the new “Andor” sequences, he undertakes a dangerous espionage mission and steals an imperial spaceship-which leads to many unforeseen developments and problems.
At this point, nothing more should be revealed about the action of the “Andor” sequel. However, in the course of the twelve new episodes, there are naturally also some known figures from the “Rogue One” movie. For example, the return of character actor Ben Mendelsohn, who again embodies the terrifying officer of the Orson Krennic empire, is officially confirmed.
Once more almost perfect “Star Wars” feeling
The second and last “Andor” relay is-like the premiere or the Prequel film “Rogue One”-a big festival for “Star Wars” fans. Again is one here captivating espionage and agent series Presented – with everything that this genre brings with tensions and joys.
The characters around Cassian Andor once again plunge into hair -raising, often completely hopeless Undercover missions. In addition to the action for “Star Wars”, it is also about things such as infiltrating and infiltrating imperial security systems or pretending false identities.
But the attraction of “Andor” is not only in secret. The show, behind which the “Rogue One” screenwriter Tony Gilroy is in charge, also dipped deeply into the “Star Wars” galaxy. For example, essential sections of the second season play on the legendary city planet Coruscant.
In contrast to the “Star Wars” prequels from 1999 to 2005, this fascinating science fiction world feels like a place where people really live. It goes deep into the skyscrapers and cramped apartments of the center of the galaxy- and even the Senate, one of the most unpopular locations in the Prequel trilogy, can be tangible and tangible here in all its gigantic dimensions.
In addition, “Andor” offers a number of complex, torn figures and in places nuanced storylinesa Great acting ensemble And the final in particular can hardly be beaten in emotion and great feelings without ever tipping into the melancholic.
4.5 out of 5 powerful star signs
Season 1 of “Andor” is completely available on Dosney+ – season 2 will be fully available there from May 14, 2025.