io9 named Andorone of our top serial of 2022 , and we certainlyweren’t alone in singing its congratulations . Amongits many awards and nominations to date , Andorhas just picked up a prestigiousPeabody Award , a plunder the governing body ’s website designate as “ honoring excellent in storytelling that reflects the societal issues and the emerge phonation of our twenty-four hour period . ”
As for Andor specifically , the Peabody Awards Federal Reserve note : “ Few other long - running franchises brood as large in today ’s contemporaneous popping ethnic imagination than Star Wars . With its many trilogies , spin - offs and goggle box serial , George Lucas ’s original macrocosm can sense like a omnipresent force-out as all - comprehend as its fictional and much - rail Empire . Yet amid stories of destiny - driven sub and doomed superpowered villains , Tony Gilroy ’s Andor undertake that familiar galax with an eye not ( just ) for spectacle but for a keen - eyed loyalty to do what sci - fi and phantasy can do intimately : mirror our own workaday trials and tribulations back with enough remove that their lessons become inescapable … it infix us to a internet of galvanized figures who like to improve the state of the galaxy , painting a portrait of how revolutions are built on their own recurring nonstarter , of how hope can and need to spring interminable in the face of authoritarianism run amok . For conjuring up a terrifying public uncannily like our very own , one that stresses the need for grassroots organize lest a fascistic state wholly subsume any electric discharge of uprising — and for imagining how IP - drive storytelling can expand in today ’s corporate - aim television landscape — Andor receives a Peabody . ”
Well - deserved , and that reasoning does an fantabulous line summing up why Andor , which hasa second season on the way of life , made such a muscular impact on audiences . Other genre projects that received 2023 Peabody Awards includeHBO ’s deplorably cancelled supernatural comedy Los Espookys(“For defying Hollywood ’s old Latino figure of speech at every turn to take Latinx mental representation and bilingual drollery to a new level ” ) anddystopian Apple TV+ thrillerSeverance(“For its powerful elaboration of hope and interlocking with the gravid question of work , labour , brokenheartedness , relationship , and what it means to be human in a universe increasingly specify by discipline , ascendance , and alienation ” ) .
Melshi (Duncan Pow) and Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) confer on Andor.Image: Lucasfilm/Disney+
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