While it is not unusual to have to wait for a year for a new season of a show, Disney+’s Andor has made us wait even longer, almost three years, but the wait has been worth it for fans, as we have been promised that Season 2 will jump forward through four different points in time, gradually leading us to the edge of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
Since the Star Wars universe started getting more and more complex and media started coming out to connect the plot points, fans are desperately waiting for this new season to discover how the franchise will handle some of he beloved characters and situations that have had us hovering at the edge of our seats for years.
Andor Season 2, what to expect from this new release
We pick up the story of Cassian Andor about a year after where we left him in Season 1, with Diego Luna back in the lead role and other familiar faces like Genevieve O’Reilly, Stellan Skarsgård, and Adria Arjona retuning to reprise their characters as well. Considering that this new season is the point of connection to Rogue One, one of the most expected returns is that of Alan Tudyk as droid K-2SO.
But some of the most exciting cameos will be a surprise, as series creator Tony Gilroy has been teasing “some [cameos] are inevitable, [and] there are some that are surprising.”
Since the new season is meant to cover a lot of time and ground, Disney+ has chosen to script it and release it in a very interesting way that many will find surprising but will hopefully make sense when it comes to watching. Andor Season 2 will start streaming on Tuesday, April 22, but instead of a weekly drip of single episodes, they will be dropping in clusters of three at a time.
The entire season is broken into four arcs, and each trio of episodes tells a self-contained story set a year apart in Andor’s journey and by the end we will have connected to Rogue One seamlessly. This means that the release dates will be as follows:
- April 22: Episodes 1-3
- April 29: Episodes 4-6
- May 6: Episodes 7-9
- May 13: Episodes 10-12
While it might not be as good as binging an entire season in one go, this format will hopefully give fans the time and space to process the events on each chapter and prepare for the next drop, which will hopefully generate the hype Disney+ is hoping to achieve.
While the complete cast is a mystery, after all we are expecting exciting cameos, we do have a fairly comprehensive list of actors that will be reprising their roles:
- Denise Gough as Dedra Meero
- Kyle Soller as Syril Karn
- Faye Marsay as Vel Sartha
- Varada Sethu as Cinta Kaz
- Elizabeth Dulau as Kleya Marki
- Ben Mendelsohn returning as Orson Krennic
- Forest Whitaker as the intense Saw Gerrera
- Muhannad Bhaier as Wilmon
- Joplin Sibtain as Brasso
- Kathryn Hunter as Eedy Karn
For those who fear lose ends, there will be no Andor Season 3, as we all know how Rogue One ended, so this season will wrap the characters arcs and leave no plot points unresolved unless Disney+ is planning another spinoff, which has not been confirmed or suspected again, considering the end of Rogue One.
For those who are fuzzy on the timeline of the movies and the show, Andor Season 1 happened around 5 BBY (which is five years before the Battle of Yavin from A New Hope). If you are trying to place all this in the broader Star Wars timeline, here’s where Andor fits:
- Young Jedi Adventures (canon unconfirmed)
- Episode I: The Phantom Menace
- Episode II: Attack of the Clones
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars (movie)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars (series)
- Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
- Star Wars: The Bad Batch
- Solo: A Star Wars Story
- Obi-Wan Kenobi
- Star Wars Rebels
- Andor Season 1
- Andor Season 2
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
- Episode IV: A New Hope
- Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
- Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
- The Mandalorian
- Star Wars: Ahsoka
- The Book of Boba Fett
- Star Wars: Resistance
- Episode VII: The Force Awakens
- Episode VIII: The Last Jedi
- Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker
- Bonus: Star Wars: Visions (timeline adjacent)