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Andor contains the wildest drunken dance at a rich folks party since that time Jack Tripper made the mistake of mixing tranquilizers with booze. Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – June 12th, 2025
We’ve watched and discussed all of the masterpiece that was Andor. Now let’s revisit and discuss the film that made it possible: 2016’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Continue reading “Rogue One” Rewatch Discussion Thread
“Andor,” the two-season prequel to “Rogue One,” has finished. With last week’s finale, the second season and the series are now complete. Let’s discuss both seasons and the series as a whole here – and there’ll be a “Rogue One” … Continue reading “Andor” Full Series Discussion Thread
Lucasfilm’s Emmy-nominated thriller Andor returns for its long-awaited conclusion. The second season takes place as the horizon of war draws near and Cassian becomes a key player in the Rebel Alliance. Everyone will be tested and, as the stakes rise, … Continue reading “Andor” Season 2: Episode 12 “Jedha, Kyber, Erso”
Lucasfilm’s Emmy-nominated thriller Andor returns for its long-awaited conclusion. The second season takes place as the horizon of war draws near and Cassian becomes a key player in the Rebel Alliance. Everyone will be tested and, as the stakes rise, … Continue reading “Andor” Season 2: Episode 11 “Who Else Knows?”
Lucasfilm’s Emmy-nominated thriller Andor returns for its long-awaited conclusion. The second season takes place as the horizon of war draws near and Cassian becomes a key player in the Rebel Alliance. Everyone will be tested and, as the stakes rise, … Continue reading “Andor” Season 2: Episode 10 “Make It Stop”
In the aftermath of the Ghorman Massacre, Senator Mon Mothma prepares a career-ending speech while navigating ISB bugs and news that her trusted aide, Erskin Semaj, has been working for Luthen Rael. Senator Bail Organa offers an extraction team, unaware … Continue reading “Andor” Season 2: Episode 9 “Welcome to the Rebellion”
Tensions on Ghorman come to a head as the Empire ignites an all-out riot, complete with deadly KX droids, several years in the making. Imperial Security Bureau Supervisor Dedra Meero escapes Cassian Andor’s sniper scope, but the ensuing massacre brings … Continue reading “Andor” Season 2: Episode 8 “Who Are You”
A year after the Ghorman Front’s heist, the Imperial crackdown persists with checkpoints, curfews, and the looming construction nearing completion. While Senator Mon Mothma continues to seek diplomatic solutions, Director Orson Krennic has turned his sights to the operation on … Continue reading “Andor” Season 2: Episode 7 “Messenger”
Kiss kiss climb climb. Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – April 24th, 2025
“One Year Later” Rebel agent Cassian Andor goes undercover as a test pilot to steal an experimental TIE Avenger, successfully flying the Imperial craft to a jungle moon. But once at the rendezvous point, Cassian finds himself caught in the … Continue reading “Andor” Season 2: Episodes 1-3
Season 2 will drop in 3 episode blocks on April 22nd, April 29th, May 6th, and May 13th. Each group of episodes will be a different year leading up to the events of Rogue One. https://collider.com/andor-season-2-release-schedule Now’s a good time … Continue reading Andor Season 2 Trailer Thread
If Andor were to end with “Rix Road” I would be satisfied, at least as far as Cassian Andor’s story goes. Everything I need to know about Cassian has been answered over the course of the series, and “Kill me…or … Continue reading Andor S1E12: Rix Road
The writing on Andor is tight enough that you can never say that an episode is “wasted” or treading water. Things advance in each one, some more coherently and compellingly than others. But I think “Daughter of Ferrix” feels like … Continue reading Andor S1E11: Daughter of Ferrix
If Andor has a thesis statement, I would argue that it’s contained within this episode (and then explicitly underscored in “Rix Road”). When you are trapped in an oppressive system, one that thrives on the false belief that compliance will … Continue reading Andor S1E10: One Way Out
I want to talk a little bit about Kino Loy, Andy Serkis’ character, who more or less dominates Andor’s prison triplet. There’s another version of Kino Loy’s character where he’s an antagonist—a power-hungry psychopath, for example, who relishes his position … Continue reading Andor S1E09: Nobody’s Listening!
“Narkina 5” kicks off the prison triplet of Andor, which all take place primarily on a heptagonal floating prison on the eponymous planet. Star Wars gains a lot of currency from how used and lived it is: ships and vehicles … Continue reading Andor S1E08: Narkina 5
It’d be easy, I think, to say that “Announcement” is a comedown after “The Eye.” Certainly, the tension is less pronounced and the narrative less focused than the fifty-odd minutes that episode spends almost entirely on the heist. But in … Continue reading Andor S1E07: Announcement
To me, the standout feature of “The Eye” is its magnificent bleakness. Don’t get me wrong: it’s a thrilling, tense episode, featuring an almost perfectly executed heist, and because Gilroy and company have given us no information at all about … Continue reading Andor S1E06 The Eye
The odd thing about “The Axe Forgets” is that it isn’t particularly memorable, and not much actually happens, but I wouldn’t say it’s weak. Much like “That Would Be Me” there isn’t so much of a throughline (though if the … Continue reading Andor S1E05: The Axe Forgets
