With regards to measuring totally different seasons of a given present, sure ones are simpler to rank than others. The collection finale of “Stranger Issues,” for instance, won’t depart many followers scrambling to position season 5 on the very high of their lists. However how about having to call a favourite season of “Andor,” the acclaimed and bold “Star Wars” manufacturing that got here to a triumphant finish in 2025? Your decisions come all the way down to the batch of episodes that gave us Luthen Rael’s (Stellan Skarsgård) “sunless area” monologue, and Diego Luna’s Cassian Andor inciting a jail riot in “One Means Out,” versus the heartbreaking Ghorman Bloodbath or Mon Mothma (Genevieve O’Reilly) delivering the antifascist speech of a lifetime. Do not ask us “Andor” obsessives to select between our children!
You already know who that is not an issue for? None apart from “Andor” creator/showrunner/author Tony Gilroy, extremely sufficient. 2026 might have arrived, however the man who helped reinvent “Star Wars” continues to be basking in final yr’s monumental achievement — and rightfully so. In an prolonged interview with Whole Movie, Gilroy was requested for his ideas on the collection now that it is firmly within the rearview mirror. He did not even hesitate to single out which season he is most pleased with:
“To me, the second season is extra thrilling due to the compression that it was below and the best way we needed to do it. It is actually arduous to inform individuals who aren’t writers how thrilling it’s to work on one thing in that construction, the place we’ve got all that unfavorable area, not having to dump a basket of exposition on the desk, and the problem of that — actually thrilling. I might not have needed to overlook that have. So, I am more than happy with what we did. It is completely intentional.”
Tony Gilroy has no regrets about shortening Andor from 5 seasons to 2
That is spoken like a inventive expertise with completely zero curiosity in second-guessing himself about how he introduced issues to a sweeping however satisfying conclusion with “Andor.” As many followers are nicely conscious of, Tony Gilroy initially envisioned a five-season plan for this prequel collection earlier than realizing he wanted to vary his strategy fully — a gutsy resolution that resulted within the uncommon time-jump construction happening each few episodes in season 2. Even the largest skeptics must agree that this turned out to be a powerful success, serving to bridge the years-long hole between “Andor” and “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” in a compressed tv schedule, and Gilroy himself readily agrees. Whereas chatting with Whole Movie, the showrunner expressed no regrets about sticking together with his two-season adjustment:
“I would not inform the story any in a different way in any respect. If we had been engaged on season 1 and I used to be 35 and Diego was 35 and we had limitless time, and if Disney had the cash, and somebody stated, ‘Geez, are you able to do it in 4 [seasons]?’ You’d construct a body for 4 [seasons] that may work. And also you’d love that. However this was so very a lot designed and intentional by the point we went into it to be precisely what it was.”
Man, might all of us develop the identical sense of zen. It is a actuality of the business that sure parts can be misplaced alongside the best way, like that horror-infused Okay-2SO episode which wasn’t to be and even a attainable Emperor Palpatine cameo. As a lot as we might daydream about what 5 full seasons of “Andor” might’ve regarded like, Gilroy clearly is not shedding sleep over it. Both method, two sensible seasons are definitely higher than none.
