Then America would have looked like this.
Yes, what if Germany and Japan had won the Second World War? That is the scary counterfactual vision, which The Man in the High Castle is all about. And if not in this world, then in another?
The series takes place in a dystopian world where the Axis Powers Nazi Germany and the imperial Japan have conquered and divided the USA between them. The Nazis rule over the so called Greater Nazi Reich on the East Coast with New York City as capital, while the Japanese rule over the Pacific states with San Francisco as capital.
However, there is also a neutral zone in between the territories of the two powers where a mixture of opportunists, deserters, freedom fighters and spies live.
The leading characters in The Greater Nazi Reich are the Nazi leader John Smith and his family (wife and three children). John Smith is a loving husband who is devoted to his family while at the same time he is a cunning Nazi monster. In the imperial Japanese army, we follow the trade minister Nobusuke Tagomi’s growing qualms of conscience over the Imperial atrocities carried out by chief inspector Kido’s brutal behavior.
Besides, we follow the young woman Juliana Crain and her boyfriend Frank Fink who in the beginning are just a couple of ordinary American citizens in San Francisco but eventually during the episodes turn out to become leaders of the fight for freedom.
The title The Man in the High Castle refers to a film director in the series who produces movies from a parallel world in which the Allies won the Second World War. These movies are very dangerous to the Axis Powers and the movies ignite a resistance movement which grows stronger and stronger and eventually everything ends in an avalanche of rebellion that has fatal consequences to the cruel world ruled by Nazis and imperial Japanese.
Especially the first seasons are excellent. However, I was somewhat disappointed by the ending of the series, but that should not refrain me from recommending The Man in the High Castle. The series is very watchable.
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