Andor Episode 4 Review
Warning! Spoilers ahead for Andor episode 4.
After its super-sized three-episode premiere set up the premise of Cassian fleeing from the Empire while searching for his missing sister, Lucasfilm’s new Star Wars streaming series Andor settles into its regular one-episode-a-week release schedule with the fourth installment, “Aldhani.” Whereas the three-part premiere blended together like an extended pilot episode or even a movie, “Aldhani” has its own standalone adventure-of-the-week storyline as Cassian is reluctantly recruited for a heist by mysterious Rebel ally Luthen Rael. Rael drops Cassian off on the titular mountainous planet and leaves him in the hands of a group of Rebels who need all the help they can get.
Scripted by Dan Gilroy, brother of showrunner Tony Gilroy and writer-director of modern neo-noir classic Nightcrawler, “Aldhani” continues to explore the moral gray areas on both sides of the central conflict. Breaking from Star Wars tradition, the Rebels aren’t blindly portrayed as the good guys and the Empire isn’t blindly portrayed as the bad guys. Cassian is still dealing with the consequences of his double homicide, while most of the show’s Imperial characters aren’t smarmy warmongers in the mold of Grand Moff Tarkin; they’re just trying to do their job, seeking justice for the deaths of two of their colleagues. Unlike the typically archetypal entries in the franchise, this show has no straightforward heroes or villains; it has a sprawling ensemble of three-dimensional characters who all believe they’re doing the right thing.
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