

It traces the life of Cassian Andor, the Rebel spy played by Diego Luna, along the rough-and-tumble trajectory that will eventually lead him to the desperate act of espionage he helps carry out against the Galactic Empire in the 2016 film “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.”Īt least at its outset, “Andor” is a show that is less interested in lightsaber duels or gratuitous cameos than in the details of day-to-day life on distant planets - the byzantine bureaucracies needed to run the galaxy and the conflicts that arise in these organizations. 21 on Disney+, adds to the sense of strangeness by not following this pattern.

The latest “Star Wars” show, “Andor,” which makes its debut Sept. It is a strange time for “Star Wars.” Quiet at movie theaters since the 2019 release of “The Rise of Skywalker,” the mighty science-fiction series has been carried forward by streaming shows like “The Mandalorian,” “The Book of Boba Fett” and “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” in which characters old and new mingle in adventures that occasionally fill in gaps in the franchise’s master narrative.
