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Critic Reviews
May 5, 2025
Season 2 Review:
Being back in a version of Star Wars where people act like this, talk like this, think like this, is simply too exciting to get slowed down with splitting hairs. The party’s kicking off, and the bolts are flying: I’m simply humming with excitement to see where Andor takes us next.
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The Mercury NewsApr 23, 2025
The PlaylistApr 21, 2025
Apr 21, 2025
Season 2 Review:
This second season doesn’t just cement the show’s standing as the best Star Wars project ever made. .... Andor reorients that fantasy in the service of something greater than itself. Its tale of political awakening, rebellion, and the struggle against fascism is so vibrant that it wills you to gaze back up at the stars — and at your own world — with wonder. Andor is a miracle, and we’d be so lucky if we see something like it ever again.
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RogerEbert.comApr 21, 2025
Apr 21, 2025
Season 2 Review:
"Andor" remains deeply compelling because of sharp writing, magnetic performance from Luna and his co-stars and plots that keep you guessing even when you know the ending. Season 2 is everything fans of Season 1 could have hoped. The only complaint is that this marks its endpoint.
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Apr 21, 2025
Season 2 Review:
Stands toe-to-toe with any of the great series currently airing. .... The series is beautifully rendered, each episode rich with precise visual detail and evocative music. The performances are sharp and flinty, pitched somewhere between realism and modest melodrama. There are dazzling action set-pieces—some giddily thrilling, others bleak and harrowing.
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ColliderApr 21, 2025
Season 2 Review:
Season 2 exceeds those expectations at every turn. The only flaw in the entire series is the fact that it’s over now. A decade after his creation, Cassian Andor’s story has finally come to an end. Luckily, it is an end worthy of one of the most impactful characters Star Wars has ever created, with this grand finale a triumph for both Gilroy and Luna.
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Apr 21, 2025
Season 2 Review:
The end of the season feels a bit muted in comparison to Season 1, unfortunately, especially as the last few episodes focus in on making sure that Cassian’s on the path that will lead to the events of Rogue One. Yet it does still deliver the same powerful themes, never once forgetting to ground its storytelling in moments that feel relatable to modern audiences.
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The Daily BeastApr 21, 2025
Season 2 Review:
Thrillingly intricate, suspenseful, tragic and hopeful, it fulfills the promise of the galaxy far, far away, telling a uniquely nuanced, mature, and gripping story that’s at once distinct from, and yet inherently wedded to, the Skywalker Saga upon which it’s founded.
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Sep 30, 2022
Sep 20, 2022
Season 1 Review:
It's all much more complicated than it needs to be, but at least Andor commits to building an expansive, self-contained world rather than plopping down on Tatooine yet again. Thankfully this hyper-local focus finally pays off in the third episode. ... Andor makes you want to enlist in the Rebellion.
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Apr 22, 2025
Season 2 Review:
The first [triad of episodes] is the weakest of the four; Cassian’s storyline, while thematically resonant, is less than compelling. But Gough — who hasn’t historically gotten to express much range — gets some juicy moments. The good is very good. .... And the last triad of episodes is as close to perfect as TV (or film) gets.
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Apr 21, 2025
Season 2 Review:
With Season 2, “Andor” cements itself as the gold standard of what modern “Star Wars” can be. .... Only the last of these [episode] blocks falls victim to the burden of exposition, seeding the characters and setup of “Rogue One” rather than serving as a climax in its own right. But even this decision reads more like tying “Rogue One” into “Andor” than the other way around.
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Apr 21, 2025
Season 2 Review:
Once the momentum begins to pick up in the next triplet, the rest fly by in chapters simultaneously too intense to binge, and too gripping not to. .... In its second season, Andor shows us what a good story can accomplish — its capacity to dull empathy or amplify it, to placate people or awaken them.
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Sep 20, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Andor swerves by refusing to make Cassian blandly noble. In Luna’s accomplished hands, he’s pricklier and more nuanced than that. ... In taking time to grow its central character, Andor unveils an ensemble with characters who drive a number of intriguing subplots. ... The interiority and self-reflection it demands have created the most challenging and invigorating work in this galaxy in years.
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Sep 20, 2022
Season 1 Review:
In its first few episodes, Andor has established an exceptionally immersive world and put the pieces in place for a tense, thrilling story underpinned by big ideas. By returning to some of the series’s core principles rather than merely recycling old parts, Andor might be the most exciting new beginning the Star Wars universe has enjoyed since those giant yellow letters first crawled up the big screen to invite us into the galaxy far, far away.
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May 5, 2025
Season 2 Review:
The rich texture of the show’s sprawling social portraiture sometimes undercuts Star Wars’ origins in the thrill of pulp storytelling; Luthen’s elaborate schemes have more to do with John le Carré than they do Flash Gordon. And while it packs a cumulative wallop, the second season lacks a single storyline as galvanizing as the first’s mass prison breakout. .... But even though it’s a prequel to a prequel, Andor still finds a way to give its story a sense of weight and finality.
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Apr 23, 2025
Season 2 Review:
So while the opening of the new season, in which Cassian flies off in a stolen TIE fighter, is as kinetic and thrilling as any classic “Star Wars” dogfight, it is also oddly conventional. But the season soon finds its grounding, centering on a resistance movement on Ghorman.
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Apr 21, 2025
Season 2 Review:
The frequent leaps in time makes it feel like substantial pieces are missing in the emotional journey he takes in these final years of his life. But even with these hiccups, Season Two, and Andor as a whole, impresses with how effectively it uses the pieces of this hugely commercial brand to directly grapple with the ways that fascism rises, and the ways it can be fought.
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RogerEbert.comSep 20, 2022
Season 1 Review:
While the pacing here can be a bit problematic—the first two episodes could have been easily condensed into one—“Andor” is more confident than most Lucasfilm or Marvel shows. ... But the third is a banger. ... One of the best Disney+ episodes of television to date. And then the fourth is what “Andor” is more likely to be over the run of the season, a balance of character and the unfolding story of a growing revolution.
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IndieWireSep 20, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Lingering prequel issues will bother some more than others — knowing the fate of not only Cassian, our lead, but the Rebellion itself can lend a futility to sluggish scenes — but a quarter of the way into Season 1, “Andor” has established itself as the most deeply felt “Star Wars” series yet. And that’s worth holding onto.
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Sep 20, 2022
Season 1 Review:
These characters offer a fresher take on “Star Wars” lore than Andor’s story, which is a rote rebel mission. If the series finds a way to further blend familiar storytelling with the more-unusual-for-“Star Wars” vibe of palace intrigue, “Andor” might yet prove itself to be a favorite among fans much the way “Rogue One” has become embraced in the eight years since its initial theatrical run.
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Sep 20, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Andor has me debating distinctions between “different” and “good” (it’s definitely the former, occasionally the latter); between “interesting” and “entertaining” (it’s usually the former, increasingly more of the latter as it goes along). ... Andor doesn’t instantly deliver the thrills I expect from a Star Wars show, but it’s different and that may turn out to be the best thing about it.
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The Daily BeastSep 20, 2022
Season 1 Review:
It’s a promising stab at bringing the franchise back down to Earth (so to speak), favoring compelling new characters and guerilla-warfare action over lavish, force-related mythologizing. Buoyed by Luna’s sturdy headlining turn, Andor has the sort of jagged, weathered spirit that’s been missing for too long in this far, far away galaxy—even if the jury is still out on whether Andor is truly worthy or capable of assuming Han Solo’s mantle.
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Movie NationSep 20, 2022
Season 1 Review:
As in “Rogue One,” the story starts with urgency and the pacing at least gives the illusion of brisk. Streaming storytelling is a drip drip drip affair, and this series doesn’t escape that with opening episodes that have brief bursts of action and a desire to slow revelations and plot twists to a crawl.
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The TelegraphSep 20, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Luna is a coiled spring throughout and Andor as a whole is bunched up with a tension which, in the first four episodes at least, is never fully unleashed. But the new series isn’t an insult to the original movies and – set against the recent track record – what a scintillating improvement that represents.
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Sep 20, 2022
Season 1 Review:
While its surface attractions are significant, you may find yourself looking for things that other sci-fi stories supply, like compelling characters and a narrative pulse. ... Thin writing is an issue up and down the cast list; people seem less important than the depictions of political intrigue and corporate malfeasance, which are handled well but aren’t that different from any number of other dystopian dramas.
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Sep 20, 2022
Season 1 Review:
A prequel to a prequel, "Andor" brings a gritty tone and look to the "Star Wars" universe, as much the washed-out landscape of "Blade Runner" as George Lucas' far-away galaxy. Yet whatever promise that entails is mostly lost in flabby storytelling, essentially stretching what would have been a 10-minute movie prologue over the first three episodes.
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Sep 20, 2022
Season 1 Review:
There is barely any shape to these first four episodes. Three of them don’t even build to any kind of real climax, but just seem to stop at a random point. ... The third [episode] is the one where things finally start happening, as well as the only one that actually has something that feels like a conclusion to one phase of the story. It’s a shame, not only because Luna’s Cassian Andor occupies an interesting place within the larger Star Wars universe, but because Andor gets off to a promising start before things quickly begin to drag.
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