Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. While my house is still looking for our next anime project, this week saw us burning through the first season of Andor. The show feels like a genuine miracle – not just a novel, compelling take on Star Wars, but simply the best thing the prestige TV era has produced. The script is graceful and boiling over with taut, ferocious insights, the cast is phenomenal, and the production’s fury is palpable, its drama facilitating thoughtful, anthemic commentary on our modern world. I frankly had heard indications of all this before watching, but ended up being further impressed by how well the whole thing hangs together, as well as how effectively it contorts itself into various genre molds (the heist arc, the prison break) that end up both facilitating the overall narrative and demonstrating the greatest pleasures of their own hooks in the bargain. It’s one of the best things I’ve seen in years, and I’d suggest giving it a try even if you’re understandably fatigued by Disney’s relentless exploitation of the brand. In the meantime, let’s break down some films!

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