Andor isn’t just top-tier Star Wars storytelling, it’s hands-down one of the best TV shows of the decade so far. Fans have been patiently waiting for news of its season 2 release, and Disney has finally confirmed the Rogue One prequel series will return in April 2025.
The announcement came after the Disney+ app accidentally revealed the season 2 debut on April 22, 2025 via an in-app ad. Arriving two and a half years after season 1 wrapped up, the next slate of episodes about reluctant resistance fighters trying to bring down the Empire leads directly into the events that start Star Wars: Rogue One. Showrunner Tony Gilroy previously confirmed that season 2’s 12 episode arc will be full of time jumps, with each section covering a span of a few days before jumping another year forward.
While Gilroy is writing the first three episodes of the show’s final season, he’ll be joined again by Beau Willimon (House of Cards), Dan Gilroy (Nightcrawler), and Tom Bissell, the novelist and essayist who’s also written for several video games, including The Vanishing of Ethan Carter and Gears of War 5. Andor star Diego Luna previously said the end of show would make Rogue One feel like a “different” movie, presumably in a good way.
The Mandalorian jump started Star Wars’ streaming era on Disney+, and there have been plenty of decent to good shows in the years since. Still, Andor arguably stands head and shoulders above them, at least when it comes to the script, acting, character development, and world-building. It’s a shame that we’re only getting one more season, but in the end, it’s nice to see creatives allowed to follow through on a specific vision and storyline without the need to keep expanding it and padding it out to juice subscription numbers.
And so far, outside of Andor’s April return, 2025 is looking pretty empty otherwise when it comes to Star Wars. Skeleton Crew arrives this December and the Mandalorian & Grogu movie isn’t until 2026, with Ahsoka season 2 seemingly not set to arrive before then either. Hopefully, that encourages everyone to give Andor it’s due in the meantime.
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