Main cast: Diego Luna (Cassian Andor), Stellan Skarsgård (Luthen Rael), Genevieve O’Reilly (Mon Mothma), Denise Gough (Dedra Meero), Kyle Soller (Syril Karn), Adria Arjona (Bix Caleen), Faye Marsay (Vel Sartha), Varada Sethu (Cinta Kaz), Elizabeth Dulau (Kleya Marki), Kathryn Hunter (Eedy Karn), Joplin Sibtain (Brasso), Alex Ferns (Sergeant Linus Mosk), Duncan Pow (Melshi), and Forest Whitaker (Saw Gerrera)
Director: Benjamin Caron

Watching Daughter of Ferrix has me so excited for this show in a while, but that’s because this is the second-to-last episode of this season and I am so close to freedom.

This episode also annoys me because, finally, it seems like the plot is moving, but alas, it’s moving at such a rapid breakneck speed that I can’t help feeling that the screenwriter Tony Gilroy had finally woken up from a long sleep and realized that he had better do something to get people interested enough to tune in to the next season.

All this while, the season has been meandering around and around without any clear direction, like the middle of an interminable soap opera with no beginning or end in sight, and now things are finally moving at the last minute? Screenwriter Tony Gilroy’s forte appears to be movies instead of small screen series, and I think it really shows here.

So here, Andor and some temporary stragglers are making their way around and about after breaking out of prison, and they get caught again because they are so competent that way, only to then be set free again because the captors are bleeding hearts that don’t like the Galactic Empire people even more.

Because this show has no budget and hence has to reuse the same props over and over, Andor’s adventures in foreign lands are kept mostly off-screen. We focus back to Ferrix, as the sets are all made up and they may as well use these things over and over until they fall apart. 

Oh no, Andor’s mom dies. Uh, okay, I’m sure I should be sad or something, but this is an ass-pull development that comes up in the previous episode instead of slowly built up over the season, so here’s a big whatever burger to these people. Talk about a transparent way to get Andor back to this place so that the people behind this show don’t have to waste any effort to create props for scenes on a different planet.

In the meantime, the other secondary characters mill about, talking mostly to one another about the plot hooks for the next season.

Rael continues to show that he is a “the cause above all” kind of guy, willing to sacrifice anyone without Andor’s plot armor to further the cause, and really, why isn’t this show about him? Andor is barely in this episode, and I don’t even miss him, so talk about a flop of a titular character!

So that’s it, I’m one step closer to the end of this massively overrated show, and I can only feel relief that this whole thing is soon going to be over and done with!