Andor: What is season 2 final worth? (critical)

Cassian is no longer a lonely boy. While it engages in the resistance and the rebellious alliance, this new chapter, more political, describes the rise of tyranny, to the detriment of any lyrical flight.

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The suite starts today on Disney Plus and let’s say it right away: the start of the matter is laborious. Season 2 ofAndor Opens in a very tedious way, and it takes two and a half episodes for the series to really take off.

Still not the shadow of a Jedi in sight. Zero laser saber. Not even a pelpatine spark. For sure, Andor is (still) not a series Star Wars Like the others, fixing the objective on a rocking diet, telling the rise of tyranny and the corrosive effect of disinformation on a population ready to renounce their freedoms. In the middle of all this, Cassian begins his spy turn for a rebellious alliance creating. The boy is still so devious, but now guided by a moral compass which points to the freedom of the peoples of the galaxy, while the control of the Empire and his army is becoming increasingly ferocious. Rebellion is looking for the best method to react, retaliate. But faced with the disinformation and the manipulation of the masses carried out subtly by the dark side, difficult to give birth to a desire for revolt, or even popular support …

Tony Gilroy And Beautiful Willimon Thus sign an even more political season than the previous one, which resonates spectacular with our real world and the increasingly significant trend of our societies to be attracted by security, authoritarian speeches. What to give to Andor An exciting new facet, even if the authors are racing to go after their intentions. As stuck in the last nodes of season 1, this season 2 is struggling to take off. Despite ellipses and jumps over time supposed to energize the story, it too often gives the impression of shooting the line. Fortunately, when Cassian takes out the blasters and goes into light speed, Andor brings back stars in our eyes. Certain sequences are crazy, the picture is superb, the sets are still as spectacular and the costumes particularly exceptional (it is a fairly crazy parade that we are witnessing on Coruscant). But the tension sometimes struggles to climb, and we must wait until the arc around the planet Ghorman – the central point of the season – really expands so thatAndor find a certain lyric power. There, the series becomes exciting again, culminating with an episode 8 of a stifling intensity, possibly the best episode of the whole series.

While waiting to arrive at this climax, the heart of the story is based on the Irish actress Genevieve O’Reilly who dominates the season and gives the senator My Mothma An impressive magnitude, slaloming between pretenses in the arena of galactic power, while Cassian Andor The bad boy is moving away to better merge, without brilliance or emphasis, with the discreet birth of the alliance. Always a good series Star Warscertainly the most successful, but this final chapter may frustrate a lot.

Andor, season 2, in 12 episodes, to see on Disney plus until May 14, 2025.