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The first season of Andor turned out to be one of the best shows (both sci-fi and generally speaking) of the year. Thanks to some pretty great performances and writing, the show wasn’t so much the Rogue One prequel it was initially pitched as and more a look what rebellion and government systems look like, and how those two things become deeply interconnected with one another and an individual’s relationship to them.During the show’s panel at London’s Star Wars Celebration, showrunner Tony Gilroy and several of the show’s…

While David Cronenberg’s 1988 thriller Dead Ringers—starring Jeremy Irons as twin gynecologists as brilliant as they are unstable—remains a tense, potent viewing experience, Prime Video’s upcoming series version starring Rachel Weisz is the rare revamp we can’t wait to see. Today’s new trailer only makes us more intrigued.Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard Nerd Out About Jurassic Park's Returning HeroesHere’s the trailer, followed by some insights from Weisz and executive producer Alice Birch from a recent press event…

Image: Disney+Andor’s season one finale, “Rix Road,” capped off a journey taken by many, not just one, in a perfect hour of television. Diego Luna solidified Cassian as one of the most important characters in the canon—retroactively at that—and the Lucasfilm series, led by Tony Gilroy, proved it’s simply operating on a level that’s unmatched in expanding what it really means to be Star Wars. It’s going to be a long wait until season two.I’ve watched the season finale, which was directed by Benjamin Caron and written by…

Amy Schneider and Genevieve Davis wed earlier this year during a “small private ceremony” in Alameda County, Calif., the “Jeopardy!” champion announced Tuesday on social media.Schneider — who boasts the second-longest winning streak in “Jeopardy!” history — was “delighted” to share the happy news, along with a few photos from the wedding. In the pictures, both beaming brides can be seen wearing white dresses and flower crowns.“A year ago today, I was in LA, waiting to fulfill a dream,” Schneider tweeted. “The year since…

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…

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…

The magic and beguiling posthumous artist monograph of Geneviève Castrée isn’t for everyone. But it is for you. She would sing, darkly confessional intimacies, for American audiences, in French. With all her art, it appears as if she is resolute and without compromise. But take a step towards Geneviève Castrée: Complete Works 1981-2016 and it takes two steps toward you. You are here now because you are curious about the same world that Castrée was. This retrospective of her work is her conversation with compassion, and…