Andor Viewership Ratings Hit All Time Highs Each Week Costing $650 Million

Why do people praise this??... Its not even Star Wars.... you got surfaced level one dimensional characters, there's zero fantasy elements, it's very boring, lacks wonder, and what ever happened to just plain old "fun" there is no fun in either season... I could care less about these characters....Bring back good Fantasy Star Wars! I watch Star Wars to escape reality and go on an adventure not to see how similar it is to our lives cause its NOT, its a LONG TIME AGO IN A GALAXY FAR AWAY, Its Star Wars for god sake...

While Andor is "only" two(2) seasons, it's basically 6 to 7 big budget movies.

I am still watching season 2 right now. Had to get my wife to watch season 1 first, so we watched that and now on to season 2. It is really smart. I love how this show does 3 things extremely well.
1. It makes the empire/galaxy real made out of real people doing non NPC things.
2. It showed there are a bunch of cool diverse planets in the galaxy. They feel like real places where people would choose to jump on a spaceship and go live.
3. It shows the rebels and a bunch of disorganized pockets with little direction fighting each other until events bring them together into a cohesive unit.

S2E8 Andor vs S1E13 The Pitt

I’ll take it further. Rogue One + Andor is the best Star Wars experience. Personally, I didn’t think Star Wars was much of anything except an overhyped and mediocre blockbuster franchise until Rogue One. Although, I did always respect the very first Star Wars film in 1977, so connecting Rogue One into that one was the best choice.

I think it could get maybe get a nom or not, but took 5 eps to get going. I did like that they finally did 45min eps instead of the 25 nonsense. Just wish they had more in here between the 2 seasons to flesh out characters and story. Cost so much and won't bring in the subs for the cost i don't think

290 million for season 2 based off the quality we got is really a steal

As someone who was ecstatic the moment Andor was announced I’m glad the doubters have finally joined the party!

yep, well spent. Disney needs the reputation Andor brought even if it coasts 650 mil

DATA: The Acolyte budget 230M / 8 episodes (28.75M per episode when it seems each episode cost 1M) Andor 650M / 24 episodes (27.08M per episode when each episode seems like 50M)

I've said it once and i'll say it again, Andor has some of the best set design I've ever seen for any show. So money well spent.

Never agreed with someone wholeheartedly with what you said John. I'm still at the point where I'm re-watching the last 5 eps and scouring online for some Andor love. I liken this Andor period to LoTR when it was released. The hype, the reception and hopefully its laurels to come.

I loved Rogue One and now Andor makes it better!

Give Tony Gilroy another $650m for more Star Wars content!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You can't hate your Kathleen and love your Andor too.

This is what I thought the halo show should have been. We, the audience, are master chief. We know his story during the games because we played it. The halo show should of been set during the years leading up to the covenant war or during it but following odst's, oni operatives, maybe sgt. Johnson, the colonists but the Spartan's should of been left out or used like a tank. A set peace, a visual or a macguffin. Not as a main character. In later shows or seasons you could add a Spartan character or squads but it shouldn't of leaned on the master chief like it did.

Andor is actually 8 arcs, each the length of a 2 hour+ movie. $650 million is actually pretty cheap for 8 (really good) Star Wars movies. It's also fun watching the Kennedy haters when they start to understand what she does as opposed to the stuff they thought she does in their head.

What I love about Andor is, it well written, fits the original movies perfectly, it’s filmed absolutely beautifully, the cloves is beautiful made and looks fashionable. Rouge One is even better now and it was the only star wars movie, that IMO felt like Star Wars.

how does the viewership translate to subscribers to Disney+ which is where I imagine the real ROI is for a show like this. Did it reduce churn of existing subscribers while increasing new subscribers. Increasing LTV while decreasing CAC. Does anyone know? This also explains why we haven't gotten new movies since ROS. I imagine Lucasfilm gets a specific annual budgets for development of content.

Worth the 600m. It's as good as Chernobyl. Rewatching it and it gets even better 2nd time around.

didn't rings of power cost 1 billion?

I don't think you can equate it to traditional production budgets since this streaming show probably has no backend deals so everyone's fee will be frontloaded and higher.

Just imagine if Leslie Headland, Ryan Johnson or JJ Abrams wrote Luthen's back story? Oh my god, what a train wreck disaster that would likely be..

The simple question is; would you buy this if they brought it out on disc to add to your collection ? I would but nothing else Disney have done since Rogue.

The Acolyte cost as much per episode as Andor. Let that sink in.

I'll attest to one thing: I already watched Andor season 1 three times, and it got BETTER each time thru! Just like the OG movies. It just doesn't get old. There's so much more I picked up on.

Rogue One is for sure the best Star Wars since Disney took over. Minus a few missteps, it could've been up there in the top three of the franchise's history.

If you're going to spend 650 mil might as well spend it on Andor

I can see where Andor's budget came from.
I cannot see where Rings of Power's budget went.

I'd love to see a Rogue Squadron series (pre or post ROTJ) that expands the storylines of the Rebellion or New Republic, with new characters and locations. I think that to me is one of the better things about Andor - they didn't rehash things that had been done before.

As long as it’s good i couldn’t care less how much it cost

So good so expensive but they’ll never do it again

This show will stand the test of time. I guarantee it will age gracefully.

Andor is 22 hours and 50 mins long. 10 mins longer than ALL the main nine Star Wars films combined! How much would it cost to make all nine of those?

Andor will age like fine wine

It's really feels like 8 movies...

And the toxic fans will say it failed.

If they agree to make a Season 3 for Andor, I will be willing to pay double for Disney Stream

can´t wait for season 3

What’s crazy is that Andor had less money per-episode than The Acolyte did.

How much money these companies throw at dreck? To produce something of this quality is the reason they exist.

The UK government reimbursed Disney about 25% of the costs, for filming Andor mainly in the UK. In some cases it can reach 50%.

Andor did better than anything SW has put out in the last 20 years- yes I'm nostalgic for the prequels I grew up with them

Dunno if that $650 million was well spent, but it definitely wasn't wasted. You can see where the money was spent in costumes, practical sets, and locations. Never saw the Acolyte, but the clips that make the rounds show settings that feel artificial compared to Andor.
Disney may not have made money on the series, but I think they got back a lot in intangibles such as prestige, goodwill, etc from the show that are hard to quantify in terms of dollars.

Disney simply needs to do an Andor style show set somewhere between A New Hope and Return of the Jedi. (preferably between ANH and ESB)

This was the price Disney had to pay to win back the fans. Money well spent. This show is going to go down as one of the greatest ever. Thank you Tony Gilroy and crew!

money well spent

It raises the status of Disney Plus for sure, but there needs to be more on the platform than just one great show.

The problem now is Disney does not know how to andor they just know how to acolyte