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What Andor Gets Right About Espionage
Much has been written about Tony Gilroy’s excellent Star Wars series Andor, available on Disney+. It’s being rightly praised for its complex characters and its multilayered plot. However, what jumped out at me, as a veteran of the intelligence business, was its knowing depiction of the role and execution of espionage. No surprise, given Gilroy’s…
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Andor Just Gave Us Another Great Easter Egg
Storywise, Andor may be avoiding the reference-heavy tropes of other Star Wars Disney+ shows but there’s still plenty going on for eagle-eyed fans to analyse. Last week, it was the Rakatan invaders; this week, in “The Axe Forgets,” we learned that one of the characters owns something very near and dear to fans of another…