Review: Andor, "The Axe Forgets" | Season 1, Episode 5
The show moves the pieces around in preparation for a presumably action-packed follow-up next week
“The day before is always hard.”
Truer words have not been spoken, though they are shared in this context amidst a stressed-out, tight-knit band of freedom fighters planning an Imperial heist. “The Axe Forgets,” the fifth episode of Andor’s first season, is largely about the tension of having to wait. No one likes to wait, in part because it makes you impatient, and impatience can lead to poor decisions. In one portion of this installment, the notably poor decision is courtesy of one understandably annoyed freedom fighter demanding some hard facts about the strange interloper into their group and finding out that said interloper was literally paid to be there. In another portion, it’s less that we see a poor decision being made than we see the beginnings of a poor decision brewing, as an ex-officer connected to the Empire cannot stop his Javert-like obsession with our title character, who probably forgot said would-be baddie even existed.
But “The Axe Forgets” is very muc…