10 minutes in and holy fucking shit this show goes hard.
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I absolutely love the way the blaster is treated as if it were an actual firearm (AS IT FUCKING SHOULD BE) and the scene with the two cops carries all the weight that it would were it taking place in an alley in New York with a regular handgun. Just from that scene alone it already feels "real" in a way that most Star Wars media does not.
Makes me think a few of the writers are veterans of leftist infighting tbh
Gilroy has at least studied it, with andor = young stalin (not eebil bad old stalin lol) and nemik = his personal read of Trotsky