There’s literally just too much stuff to point out. But this show is written and filmed in a way with such awareness of how things are typically done, so that they deliberately do things a bit differently to build tension. For example the scene in this episode with Andor going into the prison to work. They spent more time on the smallest of things that shouldn’t matter. As the audience we feel that and know it’s for a reason. That along with the music built up tension to almost unbearable amounts.

The bar has been raised.