Review: Andor, "Nobody's Listening!" | Season 1, Episode 9
Cassian stops being scared straight and starts plotting escape in a suspenseful new installment
“The very worst thing you can do now is bore me.”
A few commenters in the last couple weeks were a bit more on the ball than I was. “Nobody’s Listening!” marks the ninth episode of twelve in the first season of Andor, and based on the past three-episode chunks, it would stand to reason that this week marks the end of yet another mini-movie-like chunk. But this week’s installment also marks just the second straight episode that share a director and writer—Toby Haynes and Beau Willimon, respectively. And wouldn’t you know it, Haynes and Willimon directed and wrote next week’s episode too.
So “Nobody’s Listening!” ends on a tense cliffhanger as opposed to feeling like it’s wrapped anything up even temporarily. Fortunately, as we rush headlong to the season finale, Andor is doing the very opposite of being boring, a threat laid down in an early, prolonged interrogation scene between Dedra Meero and Bix Caleen. That extended sequence kicks off arguably the strongest episode of …