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Let’s look to the horizon on Andor.Image: LucasfilmWith seemingly every single episode of Andor season one, it’s only gotten better. Every character gets richer, the Star Wars lore gets deeper, and the grip on your chair gets tighter as the tension mounts and mounts and mounts. That was the plan for showrunner Tony Gilroy, and in a new interview, he looks ahead to the season finale and the one line that will put it all in perspective.“The first year is really about him becoming, and the last line of this tranche of 12…

Diego Luna as Cassian Andor.Image: Lucasfilm/Disney+Prior to Andor, the Star Wars universe never really got down to the grit of how and why the Rebellion came together outside of the Skywalker saga. Disney+’s Rogue One prequel series led by Tony Gilroy has injected the franchise with complex, heady themes that have astounded and made Andor can’t-miss, weekly appointment television. It’s an impressive feat—Andor is maybe even the greatest show on air right now—so with that in mind,io9 talked to writer Beau Willimon (who…

Image: Disney+ With this week’s “One Way Out,” Andor takes its place as masterful modern myth-making, every frame a powerful statement. We have missed, you good Star Wars, and it’s great to have you back! Star Wars: Shatterpoint Announcement Trailer02:27The First Things To Do In VR, Part 3Today 9:39AMDirected by Toby Haynes and written by Beau Willimon, this episode—the conclusion of the Narkina 5 prison arc—solidifies Andor as not only the best of recent Star Wars, but the best of recent television.When Cassian Andor…

Image: Disney+There’s really nowhere to run for most of our heroes in “Nobody’s Listening!”This episode of Andor, directed by Toby Haynes and written by Beau Willimon, oozes the shameless evil of the Empire as its loyalists find more unconventional ways to shake out anyone who stands in their way. The facade is almost completely stripped away as their true ugliness across the Star Wars galaxy is exposed. In Dedra Meero’s (Denise Gough) world she’s the main character of this story. The Imperial Security Bureauofficer is…

Image: Disney+If there was any doubt at the end of last week’s episode of Andor that things were going to get worse for our heroes, this week’s doozy of an episode makes it clear that the Empire has everyone in a chokehold. With an unexpected arrest leading Cassian (Diego Luna) to a new prison, and Dedra (Denise Gough) coming down hard on Ferrix, there still must be a way for the tide to turn back in favor of the rebels... right?Episode eight out of twelve really took a turn to some truly dark places and it’s aptly…

Photo: Disney+Episode seven of Andor traces the ripples of the Rebel strike on Aldhani across the galaxy. Every side sees the lines drawn, and action begins to build in another tension-filled hour of the events that lead up to Rogue One and Star Wars. The Stephen Schiff (The Americans)-written episode was directed by Benjamin Caron (The Crown); it finds Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) hoping to make a clean break, but things are never as simple as that—especially when all sides begin to mobilize around him.There’s a reason we…

Photo: Disney+Episode six of Andor provided one hell of a payoff to the heist that’s been brewing over the course of the last couple episodes of the Disney+ series. “The Eye,” directed by Susanna White with a script from Dan Gilroy, is likely to go down as one of the greatest hours of Star Wars committed to screen.The Diego Luna-led, rebellion-era tale from Tony Gilroy has really set itself apart and we’re only halfway through!The episode opens on the morning of the Aldhani cell’s heist, in a brief exchange of ideologies…

Photo: Disney+Everything is moving into place as Andor edges closer to the heist on Aldhani. This week’s episode, “The Ax Forgets,” directed by Susanna White, delivers another tension-filled slow burn of a Star Wars story. The Dan Gilroy-written preamble to the heist really digs into the inner workings of strangers being brought together for something they have their reasons to be a part of but need to trust each other to pull off... at least somewhat.In an appropriately truly pathetic fashion, we open up on Syril Karn…

Screenshot: Disney+With Andor, showrunner Tony Gilroy masterfully sets up a new Star Wars universe that drops us on the ground level pre-Rebellion and explores the lives of the disenfranchised in the shadow of the Empire. No need for space wizardry here: this is a story about people. Centering on the origin of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story lead Cassian Andor— with Diego Luna reuniting with Gilroy and reprising his role—the Disney+ series takes us five years before the fateful events that led to Andor and his band of heroes…

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