In its second season, what happens in the acclaimed Star Wars thriller is hard to separate from what’s happening in Gaza now

In the new and final season of Andor, an occupied civilian population is massacred; their cries for help ignored by the Empire-run media, which instead paint the victims as terrorist threats to public safety. Meanwhile, the politicians who have enough backbone to speak out, and use the word “genocide” to describe these aggressions, are met with violent suppression.

Andor goes there. And when it does, Star Wars fans will be forced to reckon with how this story isn’t about what happens “a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away”. It’s about what’s unfolding right now in Gaza.