#The ringer series

There’s a lot of TV out there. We want to help: Every week, we’ll tell you the best and most urgent shows to stream so you can stay on top of the ever-expanding heap of Peak TV.Īndor is just starting, too, but five episodes into the series’ scheduled (pronounced shed-you-ulled, in honor of Andor’s legion of U.K. If the mission succeeds, the organized insurgents’ existence will be harder to hide, and the larger conflict, in Luthen’s words, will “just be starting.” This operation is an escalation, one that demanded months of planning and revolves around Imperial payroll records-an odd target for common thieves. Until now, it seems, the incipient Rebellion has stuck to the shadows, stealing tech across scattered systems in such a way that the pattern eludes all but the seemingly space-Adderall-powered Dedra Meero. “The Axe Forgets” lets its audience steep in the fearful calm before an offensive-not just the small-scale raid on a lightly garrisoned base on a semi-backwater world, but what that strike will signify. It’s not the sort of viewing experience that drew most fans to the franchise, but for many, it might be the kind that keeps them there (or brings them back). This week, Andor doubled down on its status as slow-food Star Wars.

#The ringer series

Yet there is something exhilarating about watching creator Tony Gilroy-aided once more by brother and writer Dan Gilroy and director Susanna White-try to stick a square streaming series into a round hole and somehow have it fit perfectly. Admittedly, “exciting” would probably be an overbid “absorbing” may be more the mot juste. Nobody discharged a blaster, and the closest thing to a set piece was one TIE fighter flying by.Įven if I tried to punch up that plot summary, I’d have a hard time making a synopsis of “The Axe Forgets” sound exciting. Still others popped pills and did paperwork. Some characters conducted drills, performed inspections, or traipsed across Aldhani, while others waited, worried, and wondered what would happen there.

In Episode 5 of Andor, almost everyone ate breakfast, or at least bickered at the breakfast table.