Andorks: A Star Wars "Andor" Rewatch Podcast

It's time to say goodbye to Season 1, Episode 11 "Daughters of Ferrix", but it's ready to exit into light-speed with a bang! We're joined by our friends Bill and Evan from the Left of the Projector podcast to watch in awe as Luthen does some extremely cool shit to get the hell out of Segra Milo's orbit and an Imperial tractor beam, and as Cassian gets some bad news on the barren shores of Niamos....

Just days before the 2026 United States midterm elections, online discourse shifted in strange ways. Namely, fascists started to openly embrace Anakin Skywalker, and leftist partisans countered with so much Andor propaganda that the show's viewership numbers rocketed up the charts. We knew we had to record an emergency pod. Welcome to "Anakin Poasting". (no we didn't spell it wrong, the original p...

We know that Tony Gilroy made Andor, but what made Tony Gilroy? Well, his parents. But more metaphorically, what was the route that Tony Gilroy took through his Hollywood career to end up on Ferrix? How did his journey shape him to make a Star Wars prequel to prequel one of the greatest shows of the 21st century? We think that’s a route worth of a DETOUR! So we’re excited to launch Andorks Detours...

There’s many things to you can do with a star. You can gate, you can lord, you can fox, you can even bucks. But often there is a simple choice: do you wars or trek? Our special guest this week, the filmmaker and YouTuber Jesse Earl (aka Jesse Gender) asks: why not both? Together we trek our way through ANDOR Episode 11 “Daughters of Ferrix”, and investigate the fomenting war against the Galactic E...

What do the public commons, the Empire, diggers, ranters, time grapplers, the Global War on Terror, Eedy Karn, and trad caths all have in common? Why, they’re all topics discussed in this week’s episode of Andorks! We’re joined by the host of the Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff podcast and speculative fiction writer Margaret Killjoy! We reach the halfway point of ANDOR episode 11, where we find Mon...

We spend a lot of (too much?) time on ANDORKS talking about arcane Star Wars canon. So get ready, because this week we’re delighted to be joined by OFFICIAL STAR WARS(!!!!) author Adam Lance Garcia! Together we continue through Andor Episode 11 “Daughter of Ferrix”! We talk about Adam’s experience writing canonical Dexter Jettster lore, hop on a quad jumper back to Niamos, learn about creating Sta...

Mysie my! We’ve made it all the way to ANDOR Episode 11 “Daughter of Ferrix.” Who’d have think we’d make this far, haye? To help us kick off the penultimate episode of season one, we're joined by our friend, writer and filmmaker Dave Schilling! We discuss B2EMO finding his sleepover buddy, hating AI but loving droids, the parallels between Ferrix and Minneapolis, why the Canto Bight arc rules, the...

Watching ANDOR leads to a lot of logistic questions about the Star Wars universe, like: how does the Empire produce all these weapons? What is the parliamentary procedure for the Galactic Senate? Why did the New Republic fall apart? What if somebody wrote a version of William L. Shirer "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" but about Palpatine? Finally, we've found those answers in "Star Wars: The...

Get out your flashlights, because we’re going to a sunless place. And we hear it's full of... g-g-g-ghosts?!? It's time to witness Luthen Rael’s seething monologue to Lonni Jung down in the dregs of Coruscant. And to help us break the scene and speech down, we're honored to be joined by actor, writer, and video essayist, Maggie Mae Fish! Together we say goodbye to Episode 10, discuss growing up am...

We all know the story. A random bunch of misfits came together to steal the plans for the Death Star and started a rebellion. That said: they died. So we decided to ask, what combo of Star Wars weirdos could've gotten the job done and lived to tell the tale and grab a drink at Niamos? There was only one way to find out. WELCOME TO THE FIRST GLUP SHITTO DRAFT. For a special bonus episode this week,...

You’ve been waiting for it, and it’s finally arrived: it’s time for Kino Loy is tell all of Narkina 5 that there is only. One. Way. Out. So to mark the occasion, we're honored to be joined by our friend, writer and the host of X-Ray Vision and Wait a Second..., Jason Concepcion! Come along as we break down Andy Serkis’s monumental speech, talk about political recuperation, consider George Lucas’s...

The Serkis is in town, so we're making a detour. ANDOR's Narkina 5 arc wouldn’t work without the profound performance of Andy Serkis as Kino Loy. He embodies the angers of a man trapped inside a political reality that seems unchangeable, let alone escapeable. So when we heard he was making a CGI(!) reboot(!!) of George Orwell's Animal Farm (!!!) starring Seth Rogen (!!!!) released by Angel Studios...

This week on Andorks, just as our heroes bravely step out of the shop floor of Narkina 5-D, your hosts step out of their ideological safe space to welcome this week's guest, Eric Boehm, a libertarian(!!) journalist at Reason magazine! Eric joins us as we cross the midpoint of ANDOR's Episode 10 "One Way Out" to talk about his interview with Tony Gilroy, libertarianism versus socialism, Shin Godzil...

Hannah Arendt once wrote that “the raison d’être of politics is freedom, and its field of experience is action”, and yeah, that’s kind of the core message of Star Wars, isn't it? We’ll admit that your hosts here at Andorks haven’t read enough Arendt. So that’s why we’re so lucky to be joined by this week’s guest, professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ramzi Fawaz, to walk us...

It's time to go WAY IN on "One Way Out"! To help us kick off our escape from ANDOR Episode 10 and the Narkina 5 arc, we're honored to welcome our friend the culture writer Corey Atad! Together we analyze Kino and Cassian's arguments, say goodbye to Ulaf, and check in on Maarva, the ISB, and Anto Kreegyr. Other topics include: Kathleen Kennedy's career, right-wing fashion, left-wing architecture, s...

“Mad but real.” That's how Tony Gilroy described his goal for ANDOR in his original manifesto for the series. It's one of the many, many, many, insights included in the newly released book "The Art of Star Wars: Andor" by Phil Szostak. We originally had different plans for this Detour, but once we cracked this big boy open, we knew we had to detour from the detour and talk to you about our first i...

[extreme Jim Downey voice]: "𝘋𝘢𝘷𝘰 𝘚𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘶𝘯? 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘯 𝘧𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘳?” This week on ANDORKS, we’re delighted to be joined by television critic Sean T. Collins as we finally wrap up Andor's season 1, episode 9, “Nobody’s Listening”! Together we explore the upper echelon of the galaxy, from banking and tax-dodging on Chandrilla to the intelligentsia of the ISB leadership on Coruscant. And nobody’s i...

Do you like television shows about traitors and murderers in space? We know you do. That’s why we’ve brought in an expert in the genre: Justin Michael , a writer on the new Among Us television show on Paramount+! Justin joins us as we continue our way through Season 1 Episode 9, “Nobody’s Listening”, wherein we travel from the familial prison of Eedy Karn’s co-op apartment, to the literal prison o...

Here’s the story: a cynical dashing rogue, unfairly arrested and jailed by fascists, is forced to convince his fellow prisoners that escape is the only option. Also, his escape plan involves a toilet. But no, we’re not talking about Cassian Andor on Narkina 5! Of course we're talking about William Holden’s J.J. Sefton in Billy Wilder’s 1953 prison-of-war camp classic, Stalag 17 . For this week’s A...

Jane McAlevey once said that “organizing, at its core, is about raising expectations.” This week, it’s also about raising hell . As we reach the midpoint of Andor S01E09 “Nobody’s Listening” – and the Narkina 5 arc as a whole – we figured we needed to discuss ORGANIZING. That's why we’re excited to be joined by our friend and political organizing expert, Sydney Ghazarian! We talk about how to orga...

Does the Outer Rim have a Geneva Convention? Are there war crimes in Star Wars? We ask this because we’re making our way through ANDOR Season 1 Episode 9 “Nobody’s Listening”, and well, it sure seems like we’re looking at some war crimes. We wanted to bring on An Actual Lawyer to talk us through it – that’s why we’re excited to welcome this week’s special guest: Charles Star , the co-host of the N...

"Nobody's Listening"? Well, not for long, because it's time for you to START listening as we kick-off our coverage of Episode 8 of Season 1 of ANDOR here on Andorks! We're joined this week by our friend, the incredibly talented filmmaker and television writer, Nida Chowdhry ! We dig deep into the crucial interrogation scene between Dedra Meero and Bix Caleen, meet Space Mengele, draw tenuous "Spac...

The Narkina 5 Arc on Andor isn't just inspired by George Lucas's original Star Wars movies. It's also deeply indebted to another George Lucas project... and we're not talking Strange Magic (yet) . So shave your head and pop your Political Repression Pills, because we're taking a DETOUR this week on ANDORKS to visit George Lucas' debut film THX 1138 ! Join us as we explore a totalitarian nightmare...

We opened the Book of Saw this week, and now its time to take the trip to Segra Milo and visit Saw Gerrera's Partisans in their home base. It's not hyperbole to say we've been looking forward to this episode since we had the idea for this podcast, and we couldn't think of a better guest than Shanti Singh, a tenant organizer from DSA San Francisco. Shanti knows a thing or two about leftist infighti...

In a 1983 interview with Rolling Stone, Carrie Fisher said to "not forget that these movies are basically boys’ fantasies." 40 years later, has ANDOR improved on the franchise's reputation? To answer that question and more, we're excited to welcome this week's special guest, the incredibly talent cosplayer and maker, Liz McFarland ! Together we begin to wrap up Season 1, Episode 7 "Narkina 5", che...