Why Is “Andor” Ending After Season 2? All About the Decision to Conclude Cassian’s Story

Andor might have come to an end, but the Star Wars saga is far, far from over.

On May 13, the sci-fi series concluded after two seasons, with a total of 24 episodes. Andor premiered in 2022, serving as a prequel to the 2016 standalone film, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which itself was a prequel to 1977’s original Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope.

The Emmy-nominated Disney+ original starred Diego Luna, who reprised his role of Cassian Andor from Rogue One. Fans watch as Cassian is recruited to become a spy for the Rebel Alliance, whose actions will forever change Star Wars history.

“I still go back to feeling like a lucky kid that suddenly got to play in the playground he was dreaming of. It’s that kind of feeling because I did grow up with this universe,” Luna told PEOPLE in September 2022. “It’s part of my past so deeply, that being asked to do what I love the most in this universe is something I’m never going to get used to. And I shouldn’t.”

So with Emmy nominations and critical acclaim, why is Andor blasting off into hyperspace after two seasons? Here’s everything to know about the decision to end Andor, and how the actors feel about saying goodbye.

Why is Andor ending after season 2?

Andor was conceived as a five-season story, but due to the “scale of the show,” series creator Tony Gilroy revealed they had to rethink how to tell Cassian’s story with fewer episodes.

Fans might want more Andor, but in a May 2022 interview with ComicBook.com, Gilroy said, “I think when the show comes out everybody will forgive us for not doing that.”

“The show is huge and it’s just physically impossible,” he continued. “So then we were like, ‘What are we going to do?’ And then the answer turned out to be incredibly elegant and perfect because we knew where we wanted to go. Every now and then you get really lucky and the solution turned out to be really fortunate for us.”

With that in mind, the creative team truncated the remaining four years into a single second season consisting of 12 episodes. Each three-episode block takes place a year before the events of Rogue One.

Andor is also an expensive show. According to Forbes, the two seasons cost Disney at least $645 million to make. Ratings-wise, for the week of May 1-8, 2025, Andor was the second most-watched original series on streaming, per Variety.

How many seasons was Andor originally supposed to be?

Andor was initially envisioned to have five installments. The first season was set five years before Rogue One, with each follow-up taking place over a subsequent year, leading into the events of the 2016 prequel movie.

But after coming to terms with Andor‘s long production schedule — the first season took two years to make — Gilroy realized it wasn’t a realistic timeline for the series.

“You just couldn’t possibly physically make five years of the show,” he told Variety in August 2022. “I mean, Diego would be, like, 65. I’d be in a nursing home. We were panicked. We can’t sign on to this forever.”

What have cast members said about Andor ending?

In March 2023, Luna confessed that filming season 2 of Andor was “bittersweet because every day I know I’m a day closer to the end.”

“It was really nice to approach a series knowing there’s an ending,” he explained at an event, per Variety. “It doesn’t happen!”

That same month, the actor spoke with the outlet and revealed that the show only have two seasons was “really important for my mental health … Knowing this is the end, I want to enjoy it and get the best out of this experience.”

As for Genevieve O’Reilly, who played Senator Mon Mothma, she recalled that the cast and crew knew season 2 was “going to be our last shot.”

“So this might sound strange, but the collective ambition of everyone on, particularly, season two was palpable,” she told Vanity Fair in May 2025. “That collective ambition—I could see it there, and I felt deeply proud to be a part of that. I could see that magic that everyone was reaching for.”

Will there be any Andor spinoffs?

No Andor spinoffs have been announced, but actress Adria Arjona, who portrayed Bix on the series, said she would be open to reprising her character someday.

“I feel like a big spinoff could be later in my career,” she told Variety in May 2024. “I got a tattoo for Bix. My makeup artist from the show did it in my trailer.”

When asked if he would return for a movie centered around Cassian and Bix’s relationship, Luna told The Hollywood Reporter, “I would love to tell the story of these two characters during the year we don’t see between season one and season two.

“This moment of history in a galaxy far, far away is at its darkest, and to have the opportunity to see a love story … could be so beautiful and unique,” he added.

While there are no confirmed Andor spinoffs, viewers can get ready to return to the Star Wars galaxy later this year. The third season of the animated anthology series, Star Wars: Visions, premieres Oct. 29 on Disney+, and The Mandalorian & Grogu movie will hit theaters on May 22, 2026.

Where can I watch Andor?

Both seasons of Andor are available to stream on Disney+.

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