![]() She spends most of her time studying Aikido. The story opens with Juliana Crain (Alexa Davalos), who lives with boyfriend Frank Frink (Rupert Evans) in Japanese San Francisco. Tuesdays are when “they burn cripples and the terminally ill,” he says, nonplussed. What’s that stuff flying in the air? Oh, it’s just ash from the hospital, explains an amiable midwestern cop sporting a swastika armband. ![]() READ: When Holocaust truth is stranger than fiction, do we need fiction? For the most part, people go to work, watch television and seem accepting of the German and Japanese occupation. It appears that most continue on as before - except for the Jews, who have been mostly exterminated (more on that later). Where “High Castle” falters is viewers never get a sense of what Americans’ lives are like. Plus, the show’s muted color palette is dreary and suitably oppressive there are only occasional flashes of color, like the bright red, white and black swastika displayed on the strangely out-of-place LED display over 1962 Times Square.īut an appropriate visual patina alone does not carry a story. It’s an arresting concept of an Axis-controlled America that, but for a cold Russian winter, might have come true. In a crowded field of dystopian pop culture offerings - think “ The Hunger Games” books and movies and HBO’s “The Leftovers” - “High Castle” has some clever tricks to set it apart. It’s 1962 - 15 years after the Americans surrender - and the United States is divided into three sections: the Greater Nazi Reich in most of the east, the Japanese Pacific States along the West Coast and a neutral zone along the Rockies. Dick’s Hugo Award-winning novel of the same name, an alternate history in which the Axis Powers win World War II after exploding a nuclear device on Washington, D.C. “High Castle” is based on - but takes liberties with - Philip K. Many TV fans are wondering if the much-hyped drama can live up to the standard set by its Emmy-award winning Amazon predecessor, “Transparent.” Deadline: Hollywood.( JTA) - Admittedly, “The Man in the High Castle,” the new original series from Amazon Prime, is in a tough spot. The Man in the High Castle July 11, 2018įilming in Vancouver. Joe, believing Juliana is dead, ends up in Berlin with his father Reichsminister Heusmann (Sebastian Roché). There she lives under Obergruppenführer John Smith (Sewell)’s protection and is invited into his family. In the second season, Juliana (Davalos), who is in trouble with the Resistance after giving the latest film to Joe, meets the Man in the High Castle himself (Stephen Root), and seeks asylum in the Greater Nazi Reich in order to find a key figure in one of the films. When a new film surfaces, Joe is sent to San Francisco to reconnect with Juliana and she ends up giving him the film rather than see him die. ![]() Juliana to her boyfriend Frank Frink (Rupert Evans) in San Francisco who’d suffered at the hands of the Japanese in her absence and Joe to his boss American SS Obergruppenführer John Smith (Rufus Sewell) in New York City. In season one, Juliana Crain (Alexa Davolos) from the west coast bonded with New York double agent Joe Blake (Luke Kleintank) in the neutral zone where they gave up their copies of a subversive film to the resistance. Dick’s award-winning novel, The Man in the High Castle imagines an alternate reality circa 1962 where the Japanese and Germans won World War II and divided the United States into three regions - the west coast as the Japanese Pacific States, the Rockies as a neutral zone and the east coast as the Greater Nazi Reich. Cast: Alexa Davolos, Rufus Sewell, Joel de la Fuente, Luke Kleintank, Stephen Root, Rupert Evans, Jason O’Mara, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Chelah Horsdal. Filming Dates: September 17th to February 28th, 2019. Amazon officially renewed The Man in the High Castle for season 4.
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