List of things in Andor that absolutely snatched my weave fucking Star Wars Disney let be in Andor:
Visceral and realistic police brutality.
A meaningful queer relationship.
A none-insignificant amount of blood and violence.
Imperial characters that were very real people-- and not just British cartoon villians.
Pointed depictions of bureaucratic laziness and incompetence.
Consistent, coherent, well rationed Marxist, socialist, anarchist, and revolutionary theory and philosophy.
A realistic depiction of the practicalities and morally compromising nature of fighting a totalitarian regime. The degree of physical, emotional, and spiritual sacrifice that actually goes into it.
Genocide being called explicitly genocide.
A fancy white woman forced to sacrifice her daughter for the cause drunkenly dancing her feelings away like the queen she is.
"Make it stop, make it stop."
Weaponized old lady brick being a highlight kickass moment.
Several characters fates being left hauntingly ambiguous.
A care to squeeze in these strangely humanizing moments-- like Luthen taking a moment to get into his Antique Dealer headspace in season 1, or Cassian taking the time to water plants he likely never had a chance to return to in the final episode.