Andor Wins Golden Tomato Award for Best TV Series of 2025

For a franchise that’s been around for nearly 50 years, Star Wars still finds ways to surprise people.

This time, it’s not with a trailer or a new cast announcement.

It’s with something a little rarer in modern fandom discourse: a clear, public “best of the year” win.

Rotten Tomatoes has awarded Andor: Season 2 the Golden Tomato for Best TV Series of 2025.

And yes — it’s a big deal.

Why this matters now

The Golden Tomato awards aren’t a random poll or a popularity contest with unclear rules.

They’re Rotten Tomatoes’ yearly editorial recognition based on their site’s review data — and in this case, it places Andor at the very top of 2025 television.

The award landing now also reinforces what many Star Wars fans have been saying for a while:

Andor isn’t just “good for Star Wars.”

It’s just plain great TV, full stop.

What Andor won

According to Rotten Tomatoes’ published Golden Tomato winners list, Andor: Season 2 was named:

Best TV Series of 2025 (Golden Tomato Winner)
Best Returning Series of 2025 (Golden Tomato Winner)
Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy Series of 2025 (Golden Tomato Winner)

So this wasn’t a one-category moment.

It was a statement.

Why Andor stands out (even in a strong TV year)

A lot of Star Wars shows aim for spectacle.

Andor aims for something harder: credibility.

It’s not built around Jedi lore dumps or cameo fireworks. It’s built around:

consequences
sacrifice
slow-burning tension
real political pressure
characters who feel like they exist outside the script

And that approach has paid off.

Rotten Tomatoes currently lists Andor with a 96% average Tomatometer across the series.

The bigger win for Star Wars

What makes this Golden Tomato award particularly satisfying is what it represents.

Star Wars doesn’t always get credited for its best work — especially in the streaming era, where everything gets compared, argued about, and memed to death within 48 hours.

But awards like this cut through the noise.

It’s Rotten Tomatoes essentially saying:

This is one of the best-made shows of the year, period.

And it’s Star Wars.

The takeaway

If the last few years proved anything, it’s that Star Wars on TV can be many things.

But Andor proved it can also be:

mature
grounded
fearless
and genuinely prestige-level

Winning the Golden Tomato for Best TV Series of 2025 doesn’t just give the show another trophy.

It cements the legacy of Andor as one of the rare Star Wars projects that didn’t just meet expectations…

It rewrote them.

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