The second season will offer four blocks of episodes that each explore a year leading up to Rogue One.
It felt like quite a strange decision from Disney to forsake its originally planned five-season run for Andor to instead serve up a monster second season that covered the four years between the first season and the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. But this was the route that was taken for a multitude of reasons.
Showrunner Tony Gilroy has explained many of these in a new interview with SFX magazine (thanks, GamesRadar+), where he noted that this more streamlined approach – where every three episodes spans a year of Cassian Andor’s life – was “born out of desperation”.
