the man in the high castle season 1 episode 2 synopsis

The series pilot made a major change from the Philip K. The final four didn’t change most of my general impressions: this is a stunningly thought-through and visualized world, hampered by some underwritten characters - including, unfortunately, central figures Juliana, Frank and Joe, who sap the life out of the show whenever they mope their way on-screen. I reviewed “The Man in the High Castle” before its premiere, having seen the first six episodes. It put a gun in a character’s hand, gave him a clean shot at history’s greatest monster - and guided the audience to hope he wouldn’t shoot, because the next führer might be, for once without hyperbole, worse than Hitler. It did not simply cast him as a character, in a supervillain’s Alpine schloss, screening movies that predicted alternative futures within this alternative past. It did not simply imagine Hitler winning the war. Which goes to show what a weird, audacious creature “High Castle” had become by the end of its ten-episode first season. The answer, it turned out, was: It’s complicated. The show’s season finale asked a version of it, showing us an assassination attempt on not an infant Hitler but an elderly one and asking, implicitly, how we felt about it. The question was not stealth marketing for Amazon’s “The Man in the High Castle,” but it proved timely. Eventually, even presidential candidate Jeb Bush weighed in (“Hell yeah!”).

Ī few weeks ago, The Times Magazine blew up social media by asking readers if they would travel back in time and kill baby Hitler. Spoilers for the full first season of Amazon’s “The Man in the High Castle” follow.

The man in the high castle season 1 episode 2 synopsis