So we just saw Andor episode 8, and I'm quite blown away.
It evolves from what seemed like a superficially subversive show to essentially a revolution manifesto. There's the arbitrary police repression, corruption throughout the layers of hierarchy, the displacement/genocide of entire peoples and destruction of ecosystems for access to resources... In episode 8 there's left-infighting, the complete oppression of workers, the figure of the foreman -using the workforce to police itself, through granting of privileges and performance goals,... McCarthyism, slavery, wage theft, genocide.... there's all of it. It really is a thinly veiled history of the USA.

In fact I am surprised this got produced at all, I'll have to read who's behind it.

[–] UPGRAYEDD@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

If i remember correctly. The writers included multiple historians that specialized in revolutions of history. That is why the show felt so real. It was an amalgamation or real revolutions here.

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 1 points 13 hours ago

aha !! that makes sense. Once we finish watching I'll get to reading everything I can about it

[–] wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That was 8th episode of the season 2. I rewatched the thing (the entire two seasons, plus Rogue One) mostly to enjoy that one episode. It’s a quintessential of the entire show, and to some degree the entire universe / its global story. I was blown away how complex and actually great this show is. Especially compared to this quite silly and too dull universe. (I mean, the universe they created is great. But for some reason, most of the movies are just utter shit.)

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 2 points 2 days ago

Well I am very eager to reach that point then