Andor

70Worth an evening.

The rare adventure that treats a republic as work. Stay for the cost.

The review

Most space opera wants a chosen man and a glow. This one wants a payroll, a prison shift, and a speech that gets the speaker killed. That is closer to how a free country is actually kept. The work is unglamorous and the courage has a bill. You can feel the difference.

It is thin on the household, and it knows the rebellion can become its own hard church. Watch it for the people who do the job without becoming the poster. Then ask what unglamorous post you are avoiding while you wait to feel heroic.

Journal

Keep Andor in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 70. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Below

78 instead of 70

Below is still a thriller show, and it scores 78 instead of 70. What you gain is household: A stubborn father who will not hand his son to the dark.

The eight

8
Industry
Prison labor, a heist, a machine shop. Freedom is shown as something you build.
4
Household
Homes are left behind. The loyalty is to a cell, not a table.
4
Piety
No creed but the cause. A few characters still act as if a soul is real.
9
Courage
People risk a name and then a life, and the show does not wink it away.
9
Republic
Oppression is specific. So is the duty of the people who refuse it.
6
Temperance
Fear and drink are present. They are not the lesson.
8
Truth
Speeches have to be paid for. A lie to the Empire is not a lie to your own.
8
Stewardship
The point is a future the speaker will not live to see.

Where to watch

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Series · Disney+ · 2019

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The Mandalorian

68Worth an evening.

A western about keeping a child. The creed matters when it costs the paycheck.

The review

It begins as a man who collects people for money and becomes a man who will not sell a child. That is an old story and a good one. The helmet and the myth are costume. The decision is not. A household can start in a cockpit if someone decides the small person counts more than the purse.

Do not let the gunfights do your thinking. Ask which of your own rules you keep only when they pay. The show is worth an evening when it stays on that question, and ordinary when it forgets the child and goes back to the toy box.

Journal

Keep The Mandalorian in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 68. Yours can differ.