'Andor' Season 2 Finally Gives the Empire an Identity

Thanks to "Andor," the Galactic Empire is no longer just an aesthetic or a force of expendable, faceless bad guys to stand behind a cackling evil sorcerer. It is not just a symbol of fascism anymore. It is a hulking, lumbering machine fueled by a puritanical belief in colonialism and military might, a tank that seeks to flatten and homogenize an entire galaxy and all of its people. In "Andor" Season 1, "Star Wars" fans got a sense through the show's protagonist, fledgling rebel Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), of what it would actually feel like to live within the grip of a fascistic . . .