Today’s Reviews: Resistance is…
There are lots of ways of finishing that phrase with SF cliches, but Andor gives pause for thought: Andor pushes back against the idea of there being only evil choices. It […]
Today’s Reviews: Welcome to the Rebellion
The latest set of episodes from Andor are well worth a deep dive: There is no fascism lite, there is no sparkling authoritarianism that doesn’t come with mass murder, incarceration […]
Today’s Reviews: Discipline for Andor
The second tranche of Andor’s second season is all about discipline: There is a sense of careering towards destruction, that what each side really wants is to stop with the […]
Today’s Reviews: Resist!
The first tranche of episodes of Andor dropped this week: Andor remains one of the best things on television and for it to emerge now, teeth bared, bloody knuckles shining […]
Analysing Andor’s trailer (video)
The second trailer for Andor eschews the lovely (for Alasdair Stuart anyway) rock approach of the first for more traditional Star Wars stylings, and gives us even more to chew […]
Analysing the Andor Season 2 trailer (video)
The first Andor Season 2 trailer just arrived. Set, perfectly, to The Revolution Starts Now by Steve Earle it’s got the ruthless swagger and existential terror of its lead character. […]
The State of Streaming
There’s been both positive and negative news about streaming TV series in recent times, and Alasdair Stuart has taken a deeper dive into what’s happening: it’s hard not to view […]
TV updates from Star Wars Celebration (video)
There were a load of updates for fans of the Star Wars TV shows at Star Wars celebration – not least that the period of The Mandalorian is going to […]
Today’s Reviews: A different sound of Star Wars
The scores for the 12 episodes of Andor’s first season are available now – and it’s a different sort of Star Wars… Rather than all sweeping orchestrations, the soundtrack collection […]
Today’s Reviews: The spark of rebellion
The season finale of Andor – and the halfway point of the show overall – sees rebellion spark on Ferrix… The success of this series has been in showing both […]
Today’s Reviews: Compelling Cassian
The penultimate episode of Star Wars Andor is gripping TV – and a world away from many other Star Wars shows This episode of the Rogue One prequel is written by creator […]
Andor crosses from Disney+
To mark the Thanksgiving holiday in the US, and the release of the final episode of Star Wars: Andor’s first season, Disney+ and Lucasfilm are releasing the first two episodes […]
Today’s Reviews: The cost of resistance
There’s rebellion in the prison camp and a clear spelling out of the costs of resistance in the latest episode of Star Wars: Andor Action, espionage and politics – Andor is firing […]
Today’s Reviews: The true face of the Empire
There’s a lot of movement on various fronts in the latest episode of Andor… The main narrative pushes forward without any great new threads, but this is still compelling viewing. […]
Andor changes directors for season 2
Star Wars Andor supremo Tony Gilroy has revealed that a fresh slate of directors will be handling the second season of the gritty show. In an interview with Collider, Gilroy […]
Today’s Reviews: Andor vs Andy
Cassian Andor faces Imperial problems when he meets Andy Serkis’ character in the latest episode of Star Wars Andor Andor’s team leader, played by Andy Serkis, is an officious, passive […]
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