“Andor” challenges expectations from the first of season 2 – and even before her, in fact. The creative team has celebrated its original plans for a five -season story and instead condensed years Events in the universe in these dozens of the last episodes, opting for the most unusual (and unprecedented) liberation strategies in this streaming era. Just like the first season, the whole scenario was divided into four distinct arcs. Unlike previously, however, these episodes will abandon three episodes both on Disney + each week with time jumps of a year between the two, almost in four feature films to themselves. But to everyone, rightly worried about all these countless assertions worthy of an eye to transform serial television into “One Long Movie”, it could be the biggest achievement of season 2 of all: it actually wins this declaration.
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Season 2 of “Andor” begins a year after the events of the final of season 1, when Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) forced his way to participate in the emerging rebellion against oppression on the scale of the Galaxy of the Empire. Season 2 clearly indicates that with several years to do before catching up with the events of “Rogue One”, our favorite rebel is far from becoming the condemned hero that we know in the end. To date, he is an established veteran of the cause and a confidence lieutenant of the dark and enigmatic operator Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård). But, as these episodes are clearly clear, rebellion alone is no longer enough. It must be organized, effective and, above all, everyone, motivated In order to achieve their ultimate goal. If the first season was a question of the spark that turns on the fire (to steal a line par excellence of “The Last Jedi”, in many ways a thematic companion), then season 2 concerns this flame of turning into an unleashed inferno … and the real cost revolution for those involved. The results are simply epic, tragic and uncomfortablely opportune.
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But what makes “and” a difficult watch is also what makes it so urgent and rewarding. Fans will not miss all the usual features of the “Star Wars” they might want, with a surprising quantity of humor at the beginning for the creative choices which make only films like “Rogue One” (and even “a new hope”) better retrospectively. But this remains a series that goes much further than any other franchise offering, looking at the fascism of the Empire in the eyes and showing it in all its evil, rather than moving away or simply freezing towards it in the most vague terms. Conference meetings discussing the plans for the genocide with casualness differently these days, just like the intestine struggles among the fractured rebel groups or the scenario of my Mothma (Geneviève O’Reilly) of political helplessness in the face of uncontrolled authoritarianism. (Slightly soggy trigger warning: It should be noted that there is an attempt at sexual assault in episode 3, a more heartbreaking sequence than anyone in this franchise to date.)
A powerful political allegoria, a spying thriller with adrenaline pumping and a Greek tragedy taking place in a devastating slow motion, “Andor” is all that – building a conclusion that could be written in the history of the stars, but which never feels nothing less than the most original and more exhilarating experience in the story of “Star Wars”.
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