After spending years and billions of dollars on exclusive content for streaming platforms, Hollywood studios are selling shows to rival platforms and even giving them away for free.

Genre films and TV that take themselves very seriously are not rare at the moment. But the remarkable thing about Andor is that the folks behind it never forget that it exists in a universe where the fantastical is as mundane as the fascism. [ Ed. note: This piece will contain some spoilers for Andor season 2 episodes 1-3.]