Star Wars in the age of lost innocence

Star Wars’s most critically acclaimed TV series to date, Andor, returned last month for its much-anticipated second season. In its three-episode debut, Andor pulls no punches on living up to its reputation as the “gritty,” “realistic” take on life in the Star Wars galaxy during the height of the Galactic Empire. Controversy, as usual with Disney‘s Star Wars, was invited.

The same show that opened its first season with Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) visiting a brothel in search of his sister also featured a violent attempted rape in its third episode. Fans are bitterly divided over what this means for Star Wars — and they should be.