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Andor Recap: Way Station
Episode two feels significantly more like connective tissue than the first, but at least we get to check in with Coruscant’s hottest new couple.
On the other hand, maybe a more expansively paced Andor, one bound by neither the limitations of Diego Luna’s beautiful face nor Bob Iger or whoever’s corporate pocketbook, might have simply given an entire episode over to Cassian’s detour, and another to the wedding at the Mothma estate, and they would have stood out as discrete, memorable chapters in the overall saga. A more immersive approach might have particularly helped this portion of Cassian’s story, which was propulsive in its first installment when juxtaposed with the icy control of the Empire, but this time feels a bit like, well, watching a bunch of characters we don’t know bicker and shoot at one another from across a jungle clearing until a big cool creature comes and gores a few of them. None of these story lines are bad — well, Cassian’s diversion is a little questionable, but at least it’s not a multi-episode arc of its own — but the second episode of the season feels significantly more like connective tissue than the first, which had its own re-introductory rhythms and sharp editing.
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