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Andor – Season 1, Episode 8 Narkina 5

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Andor – Season 1, Episode 8

Narkina 5

Aired Oct 26, 2022

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The Empire catches up to Cassian, but are as yet unaware of his identity and past.

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"Narkina 5" repeats some of the same beats as previous installments, but its harrowing depiction of Cassian Andor's imprisonment makes it a dramatically sturdy chapter.

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Tony Gilroy

Creator

Diego Luna

Cassian Andor

Stellan Skarsgård

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Genevieve O'Reilly

Mon Mothma

Forest Whitaker

Saw Gerrera

Adria Arjona

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Tom Philip

AV Club

10/27/2022

B+

You’d think it would get boring, reviewing a show with (nearly) only positive things to say about it, but I’m absolutely floored by what Andor has achieved in eight swift episodes.

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Sean Keane

CNET

03/29/2023

The Disney Plus series gives us a fresh angle on the Empire's long-term cruelty, along with a pair of familiar faces.

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Emmet Asher-Perrin

Reactor

01/18/2023

I really hope this series isn’t trying to reposition Saw Gerrera as an anarchist, because that would be… entirely inaccurate from both a political and a philosophical standpoint.

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Robert W. Butler

Butler's Cinema Scene

11/18/2022

The villains, usually only paper thin in the "Star Wars" universe, are here given substance and backgrounds.

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Charles Mudede

The Stranger (Seattle, WA)

11/10/2022

I will go so far as to say that Andor is the fullest and maybe even the final realization of everything that made the original space opera great.

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Mike Redmond

Pajiba

10/31/2022

It is the longest episode yet thanks to writer Beau Willimon taking the show through a Dickensian journey under the Empire’s boot on top of delivering the level of complex narrative that Andor has been churning out week after week.

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Synopsis

The Empire catches up to Cassian, but are as yet unaware of his identity and past.

Creator: Tony Gilroy
Executive Producer: Tony Gilroy, Kathleen Kennedy, Diego Luna
Network: Disney+
Rating: TV-14
Genre: Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure
Original Language: English
Release Date: Oct 26, 2022