Fighting Trumpian fascism in the Star Wars universe! That was the angle taken by James Poniewozik, chief TV critic for the New York Times, to mark the second and final season of the Star Wars streaming spinoff Andor, on the front page of Thursday’s Arts section: “Building a Resistance, Brick by Brick.”
The online headline deck: “‘Andor’ Shows How a Resistance Is Built, One Brick at a Time — In the best of the Disney+ “Star Wars” series, returning for its final season, fighting fascism is more than just a joyride.”
Poniewozik got political at the beginning:
Like many “Star Wars” stories, the series is about a battle against a fascistic empire….
After a Jar Jar Binks joke and discussion of the difficulty maintaining “dramatic tension” in prequels, the lecture, er review turned to (ugh) “revolutionary praxis.” It’s a…
