Really Surprised!

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Blistering performances.

Poor old jewish community, even in the alternate universe they still have been facing the worst. Try VIETNAM / BOSNIA / AFGHANISTAN / SYRIA / AZERBAIJAN instead. Because U(S) have a lot of material that U(S) yourself created.

Philip K. Dick's only novel to win a Hugo award was "The Man in the High Castle" (1962). The story depicts an alternate version of 1962 America where the Axis powers have won World War II and and divide the United States into a Nazi-controlled East and a Japan-run West. Publicity for the first season ramped up when the advertising campaign got pulled after they covered an entire New York subway with Nazi and Imperial Japanese imagery as seen in the show. The first season received critical acclaim regardless.

I think after 5 episodes I'd be hooked, at least a little.The plot seems to drag along. There is just scene after scene after scene where nothing much happens or is said that matters to the story. Seems the writers put in a LOT of filler to make this into a series.The characters aren't very interesting. The marshal character seems way over the top and one dimensional and I'm a fan of actor Burn Gorman.So the premise of the story: A film so dangerous to the Nazis that it could change the world. Huh ? Does it have some kind of world turning evidence ? No...just shows what the world would be like if the Nazis had lost in this world where they won.. Okay, how's that going to change the world.? Are Americans in this world suddenly going to realize, "Hey ! We'd be better off if we had won the war !. Who'da thunk it ! " This series itself is a film that shows what it would be like if the Nazis had won, so is it a world changing film ? Not even close.

Im late to the party on this programme. while overall the series is really good, it does have its ups and downs, i find myself drifting sometimes. The title music is enough to make your ears bleed, its the most annoying sound i have ever heard, be prepared to fast forward or mute then miss the beginning of the actual programme so have to rewind, but then rewind too far only to hear that noise poking pins in your eardrums. A noise so irritating it pushed me towards having to vent my frustrations in the first review on imbd i have ever done.