Main cast: Diego Luna (Cassian Andor), Stellan Skarsgård (Luthen Rael), Genevieve O’Reilly (Mon Mothma), Denise Gough (Dedra Meero), Andy Serkis (Kino Loy), Varada Sethu (Cinta Kaz), Elizabeth Dulau (Kleya Marki), Anton Lesser (Major Lio Partagaz), Ben Miles (Tay Kolma), Richard Dillane (Davo Sculdun), and Duncan Pow (Melshi)
Director: Toby Haynes
In One Way Out, Andor finally breaks out of the Narkina 5 Imperial Prison Complex. I know, what a shocking development.
Of course, Kino Loy is initially skeptical of Andor’s plan, because the plan is basically “I have… a plan! Trust me, bro!” but because this is the final episode of this season that Andy Serkis is contractually obligated to sppear in, Loy is like, okay, whatever, let him do all the work then.
So yes, Andor is now free and the rest of the world can only sigh in resignation as the dim-witted moon-faced nitwit is out of his quarantine and will bore them all again.
What else happens in this episode? Well, Rael tells Lonni Jung that Jung can’t quit being a double agent just because Jung is now a daddy. Wait, who’s Jung again? I’ve seen him before on this show, definitely, but because I don’t care about the large cast of characters anymore to keep track of who is whom, I may as well be seeing him for the first time.
Honestly, I can’t be arsed to recall whom Jung is anyway, as this season has been going on and on for almost a century now, and I just want it to be over with.
Meanwhile, Mothma is approached with a proposal to betroth her 13-year old daughter to some other kid. Let me try to put on my “I really care about this!” face… nope, sorry, I can’t give a damn about this either. Can this show end now?
Mommy Andor is not taking her meds. Oh no, I guess she’s going to die soon as the finale of the season? I mean, Andor is out of prison, so they are going to need some new filler plot for the remaining two episodes of this show. Yeah, I still don’t care.
The only thing even remotely interesting about these characters is how when I string all their names together and mention them out loud, it’s like I’m reciting the vilest spell in the Necronomicon and who knows what eldritch terror I would unleash onto this world by doing so.
At this point, the show seems more interested in fleshing out Rael as a ruthless mastermind supreme with some hidden depths, clearly as a set up for the next season. A part of me feels that it’s way too late in the season to do this, but now that I think of it, I’d likely have loved this show more had it been called Rael. He had been at the center of much of the admittedly amateurishly done political intrigue of this season, while the plot most of the time either flows around Andor or it has Andor being used as a pawn of Rael.
Not to mention, Stellan Skarsgård is a far more charismatic actor with much better screen presence than Diego Luna whose acting range boils down to whether or not Andor has facial hair in a particular scene.
Oh well, this episode is far more interesting than the previous few due to Mr Skarsgård getting more screen time and being awesome in the process, but it only cements my belief that this whole show should have been about his character.
