It is this time of year: the wedding season. For a large part of the continent the United States, spring and summer provide fruit a burst of wedding invitations – and AndorThe first batch of episodes is no exception, with everyone to watch the teenage girl of my Mothma get married during a traditional (and quite decadent) ceremony.
These first three episodes of AndorThe second and last season brings a lot of intrigue, sniper and retro-channel, even beyond marriage. But the marriage of my Mothma’s daughter feels as high as the emission galactic level conflict. What seems so fun of the whole case is how much we get chandrilans traditions – applauding “Sagrona!” Before a speech, or the groom telling the father of the bride, he will not return the ceremonial knife.
It is the chandrular culture to its most baroque and high -end tradition resurrected in a way which, apparently, even they rarely see more. For Geneviève O’Reilly, who plays my Mothma, all this Byzantine tradition has a volume how my has become who is to know who it is today.
“What was so extraordinary of the opportunity to have marriage is that it revealed a culture, and therefore a story,” O’Reilly told Polygon during a junket before the release. “It was therefore really very revealing for me to get into this world, with regard to the meaning of character when you understand a story, a tradition and a family practice.”
The idea of the intrigue came from the own life of the creator of the show Tony Gilroy: “I was going to a lot of weddings when I wrote it; my son’s friends married,” he told Polygon. “Who wouldn’t want to invent a wedding ritual?”
For Gilroy, the structure of the season all sank of this choice: the three days of the wedding ceremony would define the deadlines of other stories, and finally how the arc of three episodes of each season would follow our characters over the years. He worked with the production creator Luke Hull to cut himself which would be feasible in terms of sets and leave the costume creator Michael Wilkinson Cook on all traditional wedding looks.
And Gilroy brought “Niamos!” The absolute banger of a club track of season 1, for True Party Vibes. “We say in a way that” Niamos! ” is a galactic success, “he said. “So we wanted to make a really hardcore mixture on it. We just brought all these pieces, then let the rest of the team go to work.”
Of course, “Niamos!” Here is not used for the Bacchanalia free wheel club, at least not for Monday. On the contrary, it is used here as the 2025 soundtrack is the recession: sometimes you have to dance and catch an atmosphere.
In this case, the atmosphere of my is hopeless. She has just learned that her childhood friend will be killed in the name of rebellion, and she feels more isolated and out of control than ever.
“It is only effective for rebellion if it maintains composure and diplomacy,” said O’Reilly. “Since this very first scene (in season 1), you meet it in this world of Andor Where you understand that she is a deeply composed structured woman, publicly, juggling perpetually with chaos. »»
“I think she dances to avoid screaming there,” said Gilroy. “She is in a fairly dark hole when she strikes this dance floor.”
That is to say, of course, by design. For Gilroy, the wedding presented the ideal opportunity to superimpose tension and isolation like butter in the dough. “You always want scenes that do more than one thing. So there are a lot of devious scenes that don’t only show you a ritual, or just be somehow eccentric in their own way. They also do other things.”
And, really, what better place to sail in a range of emotions than a wedding?
The first three episodes of Andor Season 2 is now on Disney Plus. New episodes are published (by lots of three) every Tuesday.
