My Review of "Andor: Season Two"

Andor: Season Two had dropped exclusively on Disney plus. I would have finished reviewing this TV series earlier if the first half of the season wasn't so boring. Mind you they had to explain a lot because there's just so much that happened in the previous season, I kind of got lost in what was going on.

This pretty much picks up after the events of the first season but continues on with the side stories of various characters. There's a deeper look into characters like Syril and Dedra. We learn more about Mothma and what she had to endure. A large majority surrounded Luthen and how he's basically the key that binds the whole season.

At times, I forgot that this show was about Andor. I often joked this show was "And" or "Or", get on with it. Yes, I recognize it was essential for the storytelling of this show. Though, it felt like the explanation of a Ponzi scheme at times. Everyone whispering and I'd have to turn up the sound because the background music and effects at times overlapped the voices.

It was so boring at times I would realize that I missed some moments. I'd have to go back to see what the heck was really going on. I glazed over so many moments that this show has to be watched over again. Only later on in the season will you get that urge to watch the show back again because you missed so much.

There's a bit of a divide with this season too. At times the tone of this show really changes in the halfway mark. The first half is a lot of expedition where they have a serious tone of espionage. They build up the atmosphere of paranoia and mystique. Then in the second half it becomes somewhat of a cartoon superhero show. This only happens because the writers forget that they have to fit this into the Rogue One movie arc.

Due to this overstep they start abruptly adding all of these conveniently timed things for us to discover. All of a sudden they get their robot friend. Oh that's how he got his ship. The list goes on. It's sort of like the ending of Star Wars Episode III. Tonally, it doesn't feel right. The show felt like there was a huge shift. Fortunately for me, this is when the season really started to pick up though. That last half of the season is quite entertaining. Fans of the movie will have a great time because they're constantly making references to the Rogue One movie.

Some might not like this because the Andor season up until that second half was quite grounded. They never had any giant robots to save them. Usually there would be a nice calculated plan to get out of things. Although this was very entertaining it did feel a little weird for the series.

Visually, this show was stunning. They paid very close attention to detail in all of the costumes, locales and individuals. You could swear that some of the characters are in older movies until they die. Fans of Star Wars are really lucky to have people working on these shows with this amount of detail.

I would say that the second half does justify the boring slog of a first half because you kind of want to see the first half again. It is a weird show because I kind of don't want to see it again but I kind of do because I think I'll appreciate the last half a little more.

Overall, I did have fun with this season but only in the last half. That alone was able to make me have some urge to rewatch the beginning again. Everything culminates to the Rogue One movie so maybe I'll rewatch that again too. I have to give this season a 6.5 out of 10.