Meg Dowell

Meg Dowell

Meg Dowell is the Site Expert at Culturess, a FanSided contributor, Star Wars enthusiast, and professional journalist. She hosts Now This Is Lit: A Star Wars Books Podcast, where she interviews publishing professionals and facilitates book discussions. Meg also writes for Star Wars Insider and Dork Side of the Force. She can be reached at megdowell21@gmail.com. Meg has conducted dozens of interviews with authors, editors, audiobook narrators, and more. She has served as a Senior Editor for multiple online media companies and the Managing Editor of several online publications. She earned her Master of Science in Health Communications from Boston University and specializes in covering TV, Movies, Books, and Music.

Star Wars: Andor Season 2 ISB Agent Dedra Meero waiting for interrogation. Image Credit: StarWars.com

The next Star Wars show after Andor season 2 is coming soon

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Star Wars: Andor Season 2 Cassian Andor on Yavin IV. Image Credit: StarWars.com

Rogue One and Andor are the most important Star Wars projects since A New Hope

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Grogu and Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) in Lucasfilm's Star Wars THE MANDALORIAN, season two, exclusively on Disney+. © 2020 Lucasfilm Ltd. & ™. All Rights Reserved.

A cut scene gives hope we'll see Pedro Pascal's face in The Mandalorian & Grogu

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Star Wars Hyperspace Stories Covers Grievous and Mace Windu. Image Credit: StarWars.com

General Grievous is the next Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories star

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi..Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill)..Photo: John Wilson..©2017 Lucasfilm Ltd. All Rights Reserved.

Mark Hamill's The Last Jedi head canon is much different from ours

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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story with Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones). Image Credit: StarWars.com

Rogue One director Gareth Edwards 'grateful' for Star Wars film, even if it isn't the best one

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Star Wars: Andor Season 2 with Luthen Rael speaking to Kleya Marki. Image Credit: StarWars.com

Andor's Adria Arjona and Stellan Skarsgård didn't like the show's script rules -- so they broke them

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Jedi Master Indara (Carrie-Anne Moss) in Lucasfilm's THE ACOLYTE, exclusively on Disney+. ©2024 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved.

Indara's death in The Acolyte didn't go the way Carrie-Anne Moss hoped

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(L-R) Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) and Mon Mothma (Genevieve O'Reilly) in Lucasfilm's Star Wars ANDOR Season 2, exclusively on Disney+. Photo courtesy of Lucasfilm. ©2025 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved.

How Andor changed its title character for fans -- and Diego Luna -- forever

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Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen) in Lucasfilm's THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT, exclusively on Disney+. © 2022 Lucasfilm Ltd. & ™. All Rights Reserved.

With The Mandalorian, Ming-Na Wen reached the stars

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(L-R) Lezine (Thierry Godard), Dilan (Theo Costa Marini) and Enza (Alaïs Lawson) in Lucasfilm's Star Wars ANDOR Season 2, exclusively on Disney+. Photo courtesy of Lucasfilm. ©2025 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved.

Andor: How a Star Wars language is born

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Marvel comics Star Wars: Boba Fett – Black, White & Red #1 cover reveal. Image Credit: StarWars.com

Boba Fett returns in upcoming Star Wars: Black, White & Red comic

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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story with Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones). Image Credit: StarWars.com

Jyn Erso, everyone's favorite headcanon Star Wars bisexual

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Cal Kestis looks on as the Nightsister Merrin performs Force magic in Star Wars: Jedi Survivor. Image credit: StarWars.com

Why Cal and Merrin's Jedi: Survivor kiss is actually a win for bi representation

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Osha Aniseya (Amandla Stenberg) and the Stranger Qimir (Manny Jacinto) in Lucasfilm's Star Wars: THE ACOLYTE, season one, exclusively on Disney+. ©2024 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved.

How The Acolyte creator Leslye Headland made the show 'feel' like Star Wars

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Star Wars: Andor Season 2, episode 9, "Welcome to the Rebellion" with Mon Mothma. Image Credit: StarWars.com

Tony Gilroy on Andor's 'effortless' use of the word genocide

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