I’ve never been much of a Star Wars fan.

The Mandalorian is good, but lightweight.

For me, Andor has been the best spinoff.

It’s an excellent anti-hero drama, that happens to be set in the Star Wars universe. Technology and special effects are incidental to the story.

It’s gritty. The characters flawed and conflicted.

A BIG complaint about Star Wars is that it’s cliche. Andor takes pains to be surprising.

Of all the made-for-streaming Star Wars and Marvel spin-offs to shuffle off the Disney+ production line, few have arrived with less anticipation and lower stakes than Andor.

A prequel to a prequel, the series explores the origins of Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), a Rebel Alliance captain introduced in the 2016 wartime heist film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Rogue One was set immediately before George Lucas’s original Star Wars films and ended quite decisively …

Andor: how a Star Wars deep cut became one of the best TV shows of the year

With no Jedi or Skywalkers to be seen, this politically charged, slow-burn thriller adds human stakes and a real sense of the fascism behind Star Wars’s endless civil war.

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