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Andor – Season 1, Episode 5

The Axe Forgets

Aired Oct 5, 2022

Sci-Fi

Action

Adventure

100%

18 Reviews

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Cassian must carefully navigate the distrust inherent in being the new member of a secret operation.

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Andor's band of scrappy rebels comes into full focus in "The Axe Forgets," a bridge episode that goes a long way toward fleshing out these characters.

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Tony Gilroy

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Diego Luna

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Tom Philip

AV Club

Andor himself shines in the center of a very good episode of television which asks: Who are we without a true cause?

Rated: B+

Oct 6, 2022

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Emmet Asher-Perrin

Tor.com

There’s a lot of discussion in this episode about people’s reasons for joining the cause, and this series is doing a much better job of something that Rogue One needed to do—show that everyone’s motives are entirely different, entirely personal[...]

Jan 18, 2023

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Robert W. Butler

Butler's Cinema Scene

The show covers much territory...

Nov 18, 2022

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Charles Mudede

The Stranger (Seattle, WA)

Humans run the empire; and humans are oppressed by the military and economic power of this empire. And it is here we enter the political economy of the TV series...

Nov 10, 2022

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Mike Redmond

Pajiba

Andor is showing an Empire that’s worthy of being feared. It is not a bumbling gaggle of Stormtroopers and stuffy Imperial officers. It is a ruthless machine with an intelligence apparatus that’s laser-focused on pockets of unrest.

Oct 7, 2022

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Jeffrey Lyles

Lyles' Movie Files

The kind of episode that might flow better if watching Andor in a binge format. As the latest weekly installment, it felt slow without much of note playing out.

Rated: 6/10

Oct 6, 2022

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Synopsis

Cassian must carefully navigate the distrust inherent in being the new member of a secret operation.

Executive Producer: Tony Gilroy, Kathleen Kennedy, Diego Luna
Network: Disney+
Rating: TV-14
Genre: Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure
Original Language: English
Release Date: Oct 5, 2022