Andor Brings the Messiness of Rebellion Bubbling to the Surface

Each character’s war within comes scratching to the surface in this week’s three-episode drop of Andor season two. The events that take place three years before the battle of Yavin see an embattled Mon Mothma (Genevieve O’Reilly) not having the votes to sway the Senate against Palpatine, and Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) seeing that the Ghorman resistance is ready to get its hands dirty. All the while Luthen (Stellan Skarsgård) and Saw (Forest Whittaker) willingly court the risk of a huge sacrifice to expose the Empire. The opening picks up on Bix (Adria Arjona) still dealing with nightmares of torture at the hands of Dr. Gorst—this time he’s in the apartment she shares with Cassian on Coruscant, haunting her with the body of a soldier they let die so she could make a break for it. The guilt eats at her, and Cassian assures her there was no other way to handle the situation. Bix argues it was to protect her identity and done selfishly on Cassian’s part; sitting in an empty apartment just ... Read full article.