Fans of “Andor” are fuming after the galaxy’s most radical sci-fi series was snubbed in several key Emmy categories.
While Disney+’s “Star Wars” prequel saga nabbed 14 total nominations when contenders were announced on Tuesday morning, Forest Whitaker was the only cast member to land a nod in any acting category.
Online, TV buffs were floored that Diego Luna’s leading rebel Cassian Andor, Fiona Shaw’s fiercely principled Maarva Andor, Stellan Skarsgård’s morally murky spymaster Luthen Rael and Denise Gough’s coldly ambitious Imperial officer Dedra Meero were overlooked.
Others thought the snub was especially galling given “Andor’s” eerie resonance amid the second Donald Trump administration.
A slow-burning tale about the creep of authoritarianism, the show explores how the “Star Wars” universe’s revolutionary Rebel Alliance is born from the wreckage of state surveillance, militarism and the erosion of civil liberties under the fascist-coded Galactic Empire.
Though many viewers interpret “Andor” as an allegory for the totalitarianism impulses leeching their way into contemporary politics, creator Tony Gilroy has emphasized the story’s deeper historical underpinnings.
“You could drop this show at any point in the last 6,000 years, and it would make sense to some people about what’s happening to them,” he told The Hollywood Reporter in May.
See “Andor” fans’ reactions to the acting snubs right here: