Thursday, April 2, 2026

What's There to Love About Andor? (2022)


The Disney+ Star Wars series Andor is shockingly good. Just how good is it? It is on par with an average Star Wars movie. The streaming series is a prequel to the movie Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

The pace of the show is a bit slow which turned off some people, but it is still a great series. The second season starts off even slower, but after a couple of episodes it gets really good.

Andor doesn't feel like Star Wars because it is not a glitzy comic book movie deliberately reminiscent of Flash Gordon. Instead, Andor is a gritty science fiction soap opera about living under a fascist regime. It could have been its own thing unrelated to Star Wars. The show is character-driven, and almost every single character is outstanding, which is why everyone loves the show.

With Disney+ you can watch all 12 Star Wars movies, Andor, The Mandalorian, and the really excellent animated series such as The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels, The Bad Batch, and Star Star Wars Visions.  In addition, you could watch 37 different Marvel movies starting with Iron Man, and some fairly good series such as Wandavision, Loki, and "The Falcon and The Winter Soldier".  Plus you get all the Disney and Pixar content.

Rating: A-

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