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‘Andor’ Season 2 Completes the Best ‘Star Wars’ Story of the Disney Era: TV Review
Season 2 of Disney+ series 'Andor', a prequel to 'Rogue One' created by Tony Gilroy, completes the best 'Star Wars' story of the Disney era.
The subtitle also announced the project as one of a planned series of standalone films to pad out Disney’s release schedule; when that effort fizzled along with beleaguered origin story “Solo,” “Rogue One” was left marooned as a largely forgotten blip. When zealous Imperial functionary Syril Karn (Kyle Soller) introduces his overbearing mother (Kathryn Hunter) to his girlfriend — the dogged, uptight officer Dedra Meero (Denise Gough) — we watch him prepare a dinner with ingredients that somehow seem both alien and familiar. In everything from dress (beret-like hats by costume designer Michael Wilkinson) to industry (heritage crafts) to language (an original one designed for the show), Ghorman is analogous to France, giving “Andor” reference points like World War II-era Resistance, the Revolution and even “Les Misérables.” Were Gilroy and his fellow writers (Beau Willimon, brother Dan Gilroy and author Tom Bissell each get credit for one three-episode arc, paired with directors Ariel Kleiman, Janus Metz and Alonso Ruizpalacios) not so clearly engaged with history, it would be tempting to accuse them of ripping from the headlines.
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