The best Star War since Empire – and far, far better than we had any right or hope to expect.
I’ll readily admit, I went into this one arms folded. Nothing in latter day Star Wars releases, especially the various Disney+ series, had prepared any of us for this Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) prequel series:
Here are just a few examples of the series’ fresh eyes on a galaxy far, far away in season 2, courtesy of director Alonso Ruizpalacios and director of photography Damián García:
Further Viewing
You can read the entire script for the award-nominated season 2 episode, ‘Welcome to the Rebellion’ (via Backstory):
As a tie-in to the release of that episode, Disney released this official zine, Rebellión:
An excellent thread from @muaddibstyle on culture and race in Andor, and in Star Wars more broadly:
From historical needle-drops to perspective on our own place and time, there are many film-making lessons to take from Andor:
It’s always fascinating when one work casts another in a new light: it’s the Kuleshov Effect, not with shots within a scene, but with entire stories. The Andor series ends right were Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) begins – and rewatching the film after the series hits different: