Andor star teases bold new structure for season 2 of the best Star Wars TV show

The second and final season of Star Wars: Andor will bring to an end the only Star Wars show yet to air on Disney+ that's received something close to universal love from fans and critics alike. People loved its dense plot, its layered characters, and its attention to detail. There are no Jedi and no lightsabers, just a bunch of ordindary people trying to resist the might of the nascent Empire. It's the best Star Wars thing to come out in years.

The guy responsible is Tony Gilroy, who's crafting Andor as a prequel to the 2016 standalone Star Wars movie Rogue One, which he wrote. The first season introduced us to a wide cast of characters and set Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) firmly on the path to becoming a freedom fighter. According to star Adria Arjona (Bix Caleen), the second season will skip around in time a bit more.

"Tony Gilroy is one of the most brilliant minds I have ever had the honor of picking," Arjona told Collider. "The structure for Season 2 was one that I've never heard anyone do before. It takes a course of time to get to right before Rogue One. He had a whole season to get to the end ofRogue One, and he's like, 'How am I going to do it?'"

"In between every three episodes, there's a year, and then there's three more episodes, then a year, and then three more. So, you're seeing the evolution of these characters through such a large span of time, and I've never done that.

It's not like you're aging 10 years, so you can't even act it to the point where you'll have prosthetics, or you can't quite hide behind masks. You're aging subtly, and I'm a very different person than I was last year, but to many other people, I might not be. So, it was really tricky and interesting to get to those places and find where Bix sort of shifts a little bit."

The temporal element is new, but this structure reminds me of how the first season was set up, with each block of three episodes focusing on a different incident. First Cassian is recruited into the budding rebellion, then he spends three episodes disrupting Imperial operations on the planet of Aldhani, then he spends three episodes in jail, and the final three episodes sew everything together. So in some ways, it sounds like the second season will closely resemble the first.

"I had a lot of fun navigating that with both Tony and with Diego, and sort of aging," Arjona finished. The second season of Andor will premiere either late this year or early next, although we haven't been able to pin down specifics as of yet. Whenever we get to watch episodes, odds are they'll be worth the wait.

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