If there were an award for taking a series of grim clips from a grim show and making them seem absolutely joyous, then the trailer for Andor season 2 — coming to Disney+ on April 22 — would be a lock to win this year.
As fans of season 1 know, Andor can be many things (prison break drama, political intrigue, pulse-pounding spy thriller), but light and fluffy it ain’t. According to creator and showrunner Tony Gilroy, Andor is really a Charles Dickens-like tale: an orphan tries to escape his circumstances, finding friends and foes who expose the dark heart of a cruel era.
That orphan is of course Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), one of the rebel spies who (spoiler alert for a 9 year old movie) dies after transmitting the Death Star plans to the Rebel Alliance in Rogue One. Gilroy is clear about the fact that the show finishes where the movie starts.
So we already how Season 2 will end: with Cassian perfectly willing to kill a colleague who would slow down his escape, and perfectly ready to die fighting the Empire.
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