*Spoilers for the end of episode 3.*
First things first: Andor season 2 trailer!!! I screamed, I hand-flapped, I jumped up and down, I immediately watched it three more times! Still processing the news that they’re going to be dropping three episodes a week. On the one hand, I want all the Andor content and give-it-me-to-now-please!!!, but on the other, this is the last Andor we’re gonna get and I don’t want it to be over in four short weeks. Either way, I am sooooooo ready for April 22nd!
We’ve hit the middle of the season now. Some big things happening in this episode, which set up the major conflicts for the second half of the show.
At the end of the last episode, Julia came home to realize that Ruy had the locks changed while she was out. This understandably infuriates her, and it pushes her to hire a lawyer, even though they’d previously agreed to handle things themselves. Ruy’s behavior catches up with him at work too, when a major revelation is exposed live on air.
Let’s just say that no one is exactly Team Ruy here. When he confronts Idalia about letting Julia into the house after he changed the locks, she shrugs until he leaves and then mutters, “‘My house.’ Like you paid for it.” Julia has reached her absolute limit and will not put up with any of his shit anymore. And at work, he’s back into a corner to the point where he says, “I think it’s necessary to clarify that I’m not a male chauvinist”—and if you have to say that out loud, you’re probably not doing awesome! His friend Raisa is one of the few people who hasn’t written him off, but with an attitude that suggests tough love is coming his way.
Julia is facing just how far things have deteriorated with Ruy, and while she’s previously run from that by going off to be with Fausto, she’s now ready to do something about it. The scene between her and her lawyer is really well done, especially when he has her do an exercise where she voices what Ruy does that makes her angry—I think the most insightful one is, “It angers me that your refuse to accept your failure, and yet you drag everyone else down with you.”
We also get some nice stuff between Julia and Andrea here. Andrea is upset about something that went down at school, plus Julia is trying to shield her from the ugly things that have been going down between the grownups. This leads to the “I’ll buy you anything you want (except a black rooster)” style of parental coping, so we get to see Andrea making it rain with dolls and princess costumes. (Side note: I’m not positive, but I think the dress she picks out is a Tangled costume.) As Andrea debates which prince doll to pair with her princess, wondering which one would lead to a happily-ever-after, she unintentionally strikes a chord with her mom. “Oh, my love,” Julia says sadly, “that ‘happily ever after’ stuff is a lie.” I love the scene that follows, because Julia is very clearly talking about her own situation, but in such a smooth, kid-friendly way that Andrea doesn’t fully pick up on it. So Julia gets to process her feelings without making it overly weird, and Andrea’s guileless response is all the better for it.
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