Mandalorian benefitted a lot from being far more episodic, though of course it also had some longer plot lines. Most shows that try to make their main thing the prestige TV “big damn plot” just aren’t very good at it. Episodic’s easier to get right, or at least to do OK.

It’s also a better star wars, in that it’s playing in the same space as the originals, and not a lot of things do that very well, so it’s nice to see anything doing it decently well. Andor’s competition is basically all of political action-thrillers, and that’s a crowded space in which it doesn’t really stand out.