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Andor Season 2 has a much more challenging task ahead of it: This next season has much closer ties to established Star Wars canon – specifically the series of events that set Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) on the hunt for the Empire’s secret super-weapon (the Death Star), and eventually leads him toward the scientist behind the Death Star’s superweapon, Galen Erso (Mads Mikkelsen) and his daughter Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. In fact Andor Season 2 has already been teased as having a finale that will lead right into Cassian’s first scenes in Rogue One – which is quite a runway to land on, given how Andor Season 1 was largely successful by cutting so many ties to the Star Wars canon.
Well, Andor star Adria Arjona (who plays Cassian’s ally/friend/sometimes-lover Bix Caleen) says that she knew Andor Season 1 was something special when she first read the scripts; she’s now teasing an even bigger reaction to reading the Season 2 scripts:
“Oh man, when I read season one, I pinched myself, and when I started reading season two, I was like, ‘[Tony Gilroy] can’t outdo [season one].’ I was again like, ‘It’s not going to be as good.’ But it’s f*cking better. It’s so much better. It is,” Arjona told THR in no uncertain terms. “What he has crafted and created is mind-blowing, and I can’t believe I got to be a part of it. He’s so talented, and he really outdid himself for season two.”
Andor cut away the more fantastical parts of Star Wars lore in order to examine a more grounded question: how does something as nefarious as fascism take root and spread – and what choices must everyday people make in the face of that oppressive force? It made the Empire into something comparable to real-world socio-political events, instead of sci-fi archvillains. It also gave Star Wars fans a much-needed palette cleanser from the usual kind of nostalgia-bait we’ve gotten from the Star Wars Disney+ series. If Adria Arjona is telling things right, Season could end up being the best of both approaches.
There’s already talk of Andor also getting a spinoff series, so this Star Wars spinoff series roll may not end with Season 2…
Star Wars: Andor streams on Disney+.
