Such a great show, an all time favorite of mine now. This show constantly has some of the most interesting conversations about so many things beyond the world of star Wars. I truly feel like my ability to interpret media has improved after listening to this show.

Really great show with tons of content to listen to and a lot of interesting opinions and perspectives, especially on Andor! The one issue I keep bumping against is how often two of the hosts, Natalie and Ali, get talked over or arbitrarily argued against, which feels like a consistent issue, though especially in more recent content where they don't speak up as often. Don't know why that's happening, love to hear from them!

Amusing, insightful, and rife with critiques of galactic institutions great and small. I think these folks get Star Wars on a level as to have conversations that add whole new dimensions to my understanding and love for the story, characters, and world while also lovingly tearing into the shortcomings of the works and the franchise as a whole. To top it all off you have an energetic cast of pleasant voices who all have their own fan journeys through this beloved galaxy of ours.

I like these guys. I used to follow a lot of them back on there previous podcasts and they’ve only gotten better at casting overtime. The only real issue I have with these guys is their politics. It’s not specifically about them being left leaning. It’s not actually about right or left at all. It’s about the performative nature of the political conversations. They’ll “boycott” certain very specific elements of very specific media conglomerates in order to avoid engaging in conversation conversations about their media (such as specific Star Wars properies, e.g. Andor) while also continuing to produce a podcast entirely centered around Star Wars. All in all, they are very fun and entertaining group of very talented folks, but I wouldn’t take their political leanings too seriously, no matter how much they love to discuss those leanings.

I don’t like exercising, but I do enjoy listening to cool folks talk about Star Wars. This podcast never fails to get me through a workout. Been there since 2021, now I have big muscles and a hot girlfriend. Thanks AMCA! Best podcast ever.

Not black-pilled enough about the Jedi

Update 2025 This podcast sticks by the hosts moral core good for y’all and good for us. Also I have no memory why I picked this title for the review ages ago.

Hey if you are right of democratic socialism you probably lack a certain amount of understanding about how the world works and you certainly could due with a lot more empathy. Anyway; real world bad, podcast good.

read the title i didn’t lie

I’m currently listening to the Kotor 2 story beats and I just wanna give a huge shout out to EP 116, it’s just so fun listening the gang gush about the main party and the themes of Kotor 2. And it just feels so good to hear everyone gush and talk about the Force how it’s portrayed in the game and I just love Kotor 2 so much. So it’s so exciting hearing the podcast crew be so engrossed and into the game I love. This is a great and fun podcast, great for listening and having some laughs.

There are a lot of Star Wars podcasts out there to consume. This is the only one that is worth your time. Amazing coverage of a wide range of Star Wars media and a fantastic critical perspective that gets it more than just “space wizard defeats everyone with their laser sword“.

The podcast hosts are quite enjoyable and funny. If you’re political and right of solidly democratic socialist, you’re not going to get much from their political commentary as the latter designation dwarfs the former in their estimation. Regardless, it is funny and insightful into Star Wars. And, genuinely, I’d absolutely grab a beer with everyone on the cast. They’re engaging, thorough, charming, and even get on those slight tangents that make for the best conversations.

To Rob, Austin, Ali, and Natalie I was listening to your first KOTOR 2 episode and hearing you talk about people’s reactions made me want to write this, because I’ve been a fan of this podcast for several years and you guys have genuinely brought so much joy into my life, and it doesn’t matter if you’re talking about The Clone Wars, or Andor, or the Halcyon (rest in peace) or video games, you have the most insightful, entertaining, and unbelievably funny takes on Star Wars and pop culture/life in general. You’ve all made me laugh so many times over the last few years, and no matter what the future looks like for this podcast I will always be a fan. I love you guys, and hope this resonates if you ever read it. May the force be with you.

Even when they play games like KOTOR that are too tedious for me to play along with, each episode is appointment listening!

This is my favorite podcast and has brought me a lot of joy. Silly enough to be fun and substantive enough to be interesting.

I have been listening to the show since it started. I don’t generally leave reviews, but felt I needed to after the announcement of the postponement. I am so happy the crew took a stance on what is happening in Gaza. You have a forever listener in me. Thank you for all you do!

Not a huge Star Wars extended universe fan to be honest, but I’ll listen to Rob Zachny tell video game war stories on any podcast any time.

I’m so impressed. Listening to the first season, I heard Gaza brought up and wondered about the second season. I’m floored that you guys are doing this. Thank you - it’s so nice to hear smart people talk about Andor and stand in solidarity with BDS

This is how to enjoy star wars! This Machine Creates Folk Music.

Never wrote a review before, just want to say I appreciate your solidarity with BDS! Lovely group, incredible show

heard you all were doing KOTOR II and thought “yeah i love that game, good for them” and then i saw people mad that you were doing KOTOR II instead of Andor out of solidarity with the BDS movement and decided that I should listen out of support. thanks for doing the right thing! it matters.

One of the best Star Wars pods from some of the greatest podcasters to ever do the dang thing. It’s a great time and I’m glad a pod like this exists. Y’all, thanks for making this show. Free Palestine.

Sorry about the Star Wars fans

Bunch of unmarried no children libs that rather sleep around and not commit and abort their children when they accidentally get pregnant. They act like they’re on a higher moral ground when really they’re despicable anti human “rebels”

Thank you, civvies.

5-Star runtimes with a 10-star crew.

As a staunch supporter of Palestinian rights and a vehement opposer of the Netanyahu regime, your reasoning for stopping coverage of Andor is abysmally antisemitic, and it breaks my heart. Lumping all characters with ties to Israel over its history is textbook antisemitism. Apparently every citizen of Israel for the last 100 years is tied to the current war crimes? Come on, that’s intellectually and morally dishonest. Not to mention, Disney got caught up a few years ago with the Chinese government’s genocide of the Uyghurs. Did you stop covering Disney then? No. Did you stop covering characters with ties to China? Of course not! How about characters tied to Russia during the invasion of Ukraine? No. So it’s not about genocide or war crimes, it’s about the Jewish nation. I am baffled that a podcast that prides itself on progressivism and empathy can have such a blind spot for its own bigotry. I hope you read this and take it to heart. I feel very betrayed by this podcast and will not be back.

As much as I was looking forward to more about Andor, I deeply respect your decision. Thank you civvies! Free Palestine!

Edit: Been salivating at the mouth for coverage of Andor Season 2 for months now, but I think the crew is making the braver choice by participating in the BDS boycott of Disney+. Free Palestine! Listen, the crew here have nice voices, critical thinking skills, a good rapport with each other, knowledge and enthusiam about more than just the shallow end of the pop-culture pool - couldn’t ask for a more entertaining podcast. P.S. Feel free to let your Andor episodes run even longer next season; I will happily listen. P.P.S. Shout-out to the fellow on the rpg.net forums who recommended this; rarely have I been so glad to have followed a podcast link.

i cannot tell you the number of times i have reached the brink of star wars induced madness, whether over some mind boggling creative choice of george lucas or david filoni, fandom nonsense, or just pure hype when oh my god this sw show is actually good?? each and every time i can count on the amca crew to suit up and charge into blaster fire to unpack and analyze the delightfully frustrating stories of the galaxy far far away, keeping me from ending up much like darth maul on the trash planet. you remember. shout outs to the pod for putting my thoughts to words and bringing new angles of analysis i never would have thought of. who knows where i’d be without y’all.

I’ve listened to most of the Andor S1 episodes and nothing else by this group of podcasters. Was excited about their enthusiasm for this excellent show but disappointed to discover that Mr. Walker monopolized the show. Started to skip ahead whenever he began to “grad school on” and wished that the three other people on the podcast including the host could get more of a word in edgewise.

AMCA reviewing various animated Dave Filoni Star Wars things or the old Zahn trilogy and the like is a very good, very fun podcast which I recommend. AMCA reviewing Andor is maybe the best podcast to ever do it. Metaphorically speaking, Andor in particular is proton torpedoes fired directly into the exhaust ports of its four hosts and then you just listen to them explode for a few hours every week. It is a joy.

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Just weeks before Andor S2 comes out, I’m rewatching season 1 of Andor and I crave more Andor content. I dig through this pod’s archives and find the episodes they released for Andor in 2022. They are wonderful companions to my rewatch. I love the deep dives into every detail, the obscure world lore that I would miss, the theories on what may happen next. Even if you don’t follow clone wars, like me, I can recommend this podcast for the strength of its Andor episodes, and I hope they can cover season 2 just as deeply.

i think one of the best way to say how good this show is is that for as excited as i am about andor season 2, i’m equally if not more excited to listen to the episodes of this show talking about it

What a great balance of humor, insight, and good faith speculation. I’m so glad I stumbled upon this podcast!!

I love this podcast, it is my absolute #1 right now when I need a break from reality and the news. I started listening for Andor content and then went back to the beginning. As someone who watched the animated series as an adult and is left politically, this is the best. Love how in-depth each episode is and how the tone veers from serious to hysterical. Can’t wait for you all to cover season two of Andor!

thank u for ur whimsy and willingness to go feral

Love this crew and their deep, delightful conversations.

I can’t even listen to it bc of restrictions on my device for language…wish I could listen to it tho. If only it had less language…😔

Entertaining deep dive into several different Star Wars series with astute political, literary, and cultural references. They’re so fun to listen to you hardly notice the breadth and scope of the information being served.

The AMCA crew has taught me how to engage with media in more critical, thoughtful ways. Their coverage of Andor season 1 was phenomenal - I’m on my third re-listen now as I wait for season 2. They know how to critique Star Wars while still *clearly* loving the series and the work they get to do. Also, the five star runtimes make this a great podcast for long drives or cleaning sessions! Appreciate this crew for the work they do and the stuff they’ve taught me ❤️

I heard about this podcast from some other podcast. I don’t even remember which one. This podcast has made me a more thoughtful (and therefore better?) consumer of Star Wars media. I’ve been a Star Wars fan for as long as I can remember, but never really delved deeper into it other than looking to be entertained. After listening to about 50 or so episodes, thinking about the themes of Star Wars while watching and rewatching things I’ve seen a thousand times make me appreciate them even more. I really didn’t get Andor when I first saw it, but now as I’m finishing the Andor episodes, it’s very clear to me how good it is. Even the clone wars has me looking with a more critical and appreciative eye to see things I didn’t see before. So thank you Austin, Natalie, Rob, and Ali for all your hard work!

I found these guys due to a recommendation from someone in one of the Star Wars groups I follow in Facebook. I picked up with the beginning of the Heir to the Empire series review and have been hooked since! It is funny as I had just re-read the trilogy recently in 2024 for the first time since a teenager and was able to laugh and nod my head to the conversation. They are fans at heart and were able to hit the high points of the text, including how this was the beginnings of a larger universe outside of the original trilogy, with some references still in use even today! This team was also able to find the humor in points of the story that I also agree with and was able to laugh along to! I will be following this podcast going forward as I fully appreciate this team’s love of Star Wars and ability to both call out the seriousness, but also the humor, in our beloved franchise!

To my shame, it took me years to review this podcast despite it enriching my life every single episode. I love this show because of how seriously the hosts take Star Wars not only as a media property but as a text of the times, of the ever-dark days of American empire. They’re the only takes on Star Wars I vigorously agree with anymore, and best of all, they come from a place of wishing Star Wars was better than it is. I’m reminded of the line from “The Last Black Man in San Francisco”: you don’t get to hate it unless you love it. And this crew loves Star Wars. (I do disagree with their take on Hera code switching in Rebels though. That kind of thing where you switch into an accent wholly different from your own when talking to your parents and other immigrants happens ALL THE TIME. It moved me to see it with Hera. But that’s all!)

AMCA is oftentimes better than the Star Wars they’re covering. This show has become the barometer by which I measure all other podcasts.

First of all, this is an absolutely killer podcast. Secondly, Allie is absolutely right about how Maul and Obi reunion should go if it happens. I’ve been listening to your episodes in rough canonical order (starting with Kotor and moving forward) and it is a solid companion to the work and as another reviewer said deepens the experience. Caught up and we’re at Rebels! Sam Whitwer’s Maul basically single handedly made Maul one of my favorite characters in Star Wars. The Maul takes on the show, like all the others, are fire writ upon my ears. Love the Star Wars RPG shout outs and the books content also. Great way to learn about the extended universes; and love how you draw connections from the shows/movies to the EU/Legends and the RPG books and the novels. I didn’t realize that Maul was played by the same actor as the vampire in Being Human until this podcast; I’m not sure if yall mention it but it was because of you I googled it and found out. Worse the price of admission on its own. Thanks for the show!

I came to this show for their Andor episodes and have now started working my way through their backlog. Listening to their hot takes and key points and tangents feels like hanging out with friends and I find myself going back and actually re-listening to episodes, not because I forgot what was in them, but because they’re comfort food at this point.

This has been my #1 podcast since the Andor era when I hopped on. Loved Austin back at Giant Bomb, but the whole crew here is just so good together. This is what all pop culture media crit shows should be emulating. Always great insights and a ton of fun.

simply the best