As we prepare to move out of 2025 and edge closer to the 50th year of Star Wars, one thing we can all take to the bank is the knowledge that 2025 will be remembered as the year of Andor season 2, a show that confirmed the excellence of the debut season was no fluke and cemented it as an all-time great. Speaking with Games Radar after being told the show had topped their list of best TV shows of 2025, Tony Gilroy discussed a number of related topics including what would bring him back to Star Wars (“the biggest temptation would be to go back and work in London, if you want to know the truth“), fan theories regarding Bix (“I would imagine, at some point, she would find out what had happened“) and here, telling the story in 2 rather than 5 seasons.
GR: In the world where you made five seasons of Andor instead of two, what would you have been most excited to explore further?
DL: I wouldn’t tell the story any differently at all. If we were working on season one and I was 35 and Diego was 35 and we had unlimited time, and if Disney had the money, and someone said, ‘Geez, can you do it in four [seasons]?’ You’d build a frame for four that would work. And you’d love that. But this was so very much designed and intentional by the time we went into it to be exactly what it was. To me, the second season is more exciting because of the compression that it was under and the way we had to do it. It’s really hard to tell people who aren’t writers how exciting it is to work on something in that structure, where we have all that negative space, not having to dump a basket of exposition on the table, and the challenge of that… really exciting. I would not have wanted to miss that experience. So I’m very pleased with what we did. It’s absolutely intentional.
