The Glorious, Terrible Delirium of Mon Mothma’s Liberating Andor Moment

We open Andor‘s second season with, among other things, Mon Mothma in crisis. The moment she had been dreading since her deal with the devil in season one—the wedding of her daughter Leida to scoundrel financier Davo Sculden’s son—has arrived, a reminder of what the cost of funding the rebellion means to her, and the past traumas of Chandrilan culture, made manifest. But at the climax of it all we and Mon Mothma alike find out just how worst it can get for her to commit to this path, and what it will take to truly make Mon a rebel. It’s not her speech denouncing the Ghorman Massacre—at least, not yet. We know that’s to come. Instead, Mon seals her path in the climax of season two’s three-episode first act with a simple, beautiful, terrible act… a dance. The final third of Andor season two’s third episode, “TK TITLE,” comes as Mon has a frosty conversation with wedding guest and longtime rebellious associate Luthen Rael. Over the course of the three-day traditional wedding ceremony th ... Read full article.