The mystical mumbo-jumbo that saturates much of “Star Wars” is entirely absent from the new series “Andor.” “I began to wonder whether ‘Andor’ was prestige TV masquerading as a ‘Star Wars’ story,” jonmichaud writes.
It wasn’t until the sixth episode of the shape-shifting and genre-curious new “Star Wars” series “Andor” that I figured out what had been nagging at me. The episode, titled “The Eye,” centers on rebel fighters as they plan to infiltrate an imperial base. At the outset of this risky operation, the group splits into two teams. “Safe travels,” the leader of one team says to the other.Surely that was the moment to drop a “May the Force be with you.
The creator of “Andor” is Tony Gilroy, who co-wrote the screenplay for “Rogue One” and reportedly helped. Gilroy’s other credits include the ingenious corporate-law thriller “Michael Clayton” and nearly all of the Jason Bourne movies. The writers for the show include Beau Willimon, who scripted much of the political drama “House of Cards,” and Stephen Schiff, a writer and producer on the Cold War spy series “The Americans.
Those themes are central to “Andor,” too, but they take some time to appear. The series opens with a slice of sci-fi noir. On a rainy night in the red-light district of Morlana One, Cassian goes to a brothel looking for his sister, who may have been working there. At the bar, Cassian is taunted by two off-duty security officers; later, he kills them after they try to bully him in the street.
In “Andor” ’s scope and moral ambiguity, viewers will recognize similarities with such earthbound works as the novels of
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