I started watching Andor three days ago and it seems awesome.
I am not a Star Wars fan. I got introduced to the franchise much later in my life and I didn't like it. Most of it was just straight up trash. There is a lot of nice world building, the soundtracks are usually awesome but the storylines have usually sucked. There is a universe spanning imperial empire at war with its opponents so bulk of the stories revolving around space Harry Potters seems out of place.
But Andor seems really good so far. I am three or four episodes in. But it does a very good job of showing a well thought out scenario involving an imperial empire/corporation, their occupation of a place, the dynamic between the oppressor's armed "security" wing's counterinsurgency and some measures the locals have cobbled up to deal with them.
No nostalgia bait? No Skywalkers? No dead character from older trilogies suddenly coming back to life? This is pretty good so far. If this turns out good all the way I will give Mandalorian a shot too.
Yeah it was pretty good.
The shame about Starwars is that there is a ton of really good writing and world building but almost none of it is in the movies. I read a bunch of the novels as a teen and most of them were pretty good. The video games have some really good content too. KotOR 1&2 are amazing (2 needs mods to fix the ending because it wasn't finished on release) Dark Forces and the Jedi Knight games were awesome.