‘House of Cards’ Showrunner Beau Willimon Says He is ‘Proud’ of New ‘Andor’ Season and Working on ‘Severance’

Can You Do Better Than Diego Luna And The "Andor" Cast On This "Star Wars" Universe Trivia Quiz?

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‘Andor’ Used Season 1 Techno Hit To Get Mon Mothma Crying in the Club

How do you make storylines come together when the characters are worlds apart? That was the challenge facing the first arc of “Andor” Season 2 — specifically the last 15 minutes of Episode 3, “Harvest,” where Cassian (Diego Luna) swoops onto the Mina-Rau grassland in a stolen tie-fighter to rescue Bix (Adria Arjona), Wilmon (Muhannad Bhaier), and Brasso (Joplin Sibtain) while Mon Mothma (Genevieve O’Reilly) loses herself on the dance floor of he…

‘House of Cards’ Showrunner Beau Willimon Says He is ‘Proud’ of New ‘Andor’ Season and Working on ‘Severance’

Beau Willimon, the showrunner behind “House of Cards” and writer of “Andor,” says he is very proud of the second season of the “Star Wars” franchise instalment. Speaking at an industry event at Canneseries, the producer said writing the Disney+ series is “like being a session musician on someone’s album,” praising his creative collaborator and series creator Tony Gilroy.  “Tony helped me on ‘House of Cards’ for a couple of seasons as a consult…

‘Andor’ Showrunner Reveals Season 2 Secrets and Why Writing Darth Vader Is ‘Limiting’

We already know an awful lot about the fates of many of the characters on Andor, but the show’s second season is nevertheless some of the most gripping television of the year so far. As the timeline barrels toward the beginning of Rogue One, leaping a year ahead every three episodes, both the stakes and the scale of the narrative are escalating rapidly. With the show’s first block of episodes now available, showrunner Tony Gilroy was ready to br…

‘Revenge of the Sith’ Was Actually Great—And Paved the Way for ‘Andor’

Disney+'s grown-up Star Wars series is an eerily topical parable about democracy dying at the hands of the Dark Side—but so was George Lucas' third Star Wars prequel, which returns to theaters this weekend for the first time in two decades.

Star Wars’ ‘Andor’ Season 2 Depicts the Banality of American Fascism

The franchise’s Disney era has been defined by toothless politics, but “Andor” Season 2 is a vivid metaphor for America’s descent into authoritarianism.