Reminding us that Hollywood’s current Harvey Weinstein troubles are less a story of one bad apple, than a tale of an entire orchard riddled with incidents of systemic rot, a TV producer for Amazon has come forward with an accusation that one of the company’s high-level TV executives sexually harassed her during a…
Welcome back to Mailbag, a series about the sometimes weird, sometimes fun stuff we get in the mail. Amazon’s The Man In The High Castle is set in an alternate history where the Axis powers were victorious in World War II. To get us accustomed to the idea of living in a dystopian society, Amazon sent us a turntable…
The Man In The High Castle’s ongoing Resistance Radio project has pissed off Trump supporters, and now its providing its listeners with some swell tunes. NPR debuted Angel Olsen’s cover of “Who’s Sorry Now” off Resistance Radio: The Man In The High Castle Album, a collection of classic songs covered by modern artists…
As part of an ad campaign for its original series The Man In The High Castle, Amazon recently launched Resistance Radio, a streaming station set, like the Philip K. Dick adaptation itself, in an alternate 1962 America run by fascists. The pre-recorded program features “bootleg songs” alongside interstitials where…
With a title like “Fallout,” The Man In The High Castle’s season finale could have gone the literal route, giving us the nuclear blast that’s been threatened all along. Instead, the fallout is of the metaphorical variety, dealing with the consequences of the penultimate episode’s major events and decisions. It’s a…
With more than 5.2 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together at the last minute, or seeing whether history’s previous yuge walls had any negative ramifications. We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 5,330,347-week series, Wiki Wormhole.
“Detonation” is an appropriate title for what may be the most eventful episode of the series to date. Almost every thread of the second season reaches its climax, to the point where some of it feels rushed. Early on, the ever-conflicted Juliana lures Lucy’s husband Henry into a Resistance set-up, and it comes off as…
Who is the protagonist of The Man In The High Castle? Nearly two seasons into the series, that’s an ever-shifting target. A show needn’t have a singular focus for viewer empathy—your hero of Game Of Thrones may not be mine, for instance—but High Castle has always had a hard time making any such characters compelling.…
Life isn’t all bad in the Japanese-occupied Pacific States of America. After a hard day of swindling the wealthy and narrowly avoiding death at the hands of the Yakuza, it’s nice to know you can relax with a marijuana cigarette from the respected brand that gives this episode its name. It’s perfectly legal and awfully…
Though we probably shouldn’t read too much into it, Amazon Prime Video’s just renewed The Man In The High Castle for a third season. Ridley Scott and Frank Spotnitz’s adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s dystopian novel charts an alternate (for now) timeline, in which America is controlled by Nazis following the Axis…
It’s a new era on The Man In The High Castle, in more ways than one. Per all reports, this is the first episode of the post-Frank Spotnitz regime, with the original showrunner replaced by no one in particular for the rest of this season. Within the world of the show, the winds of change are blowing as the ‘60s get…
At this point in the season, The Man In The High Castle is basically an anthology of different shows with a common backdrop and an increasingly tenuous connection between the characters. That probably won’t last—by the end of this episode, two of the main players have (sort of) come back into each other’s orbits in an…
When the previous episode ended with Tagomi mysteriously absent from his office, it was almost a given that “Escalation” would open with another visit to an alternate reality, and so it does. This time Tagomi finds himself in a house with cherry blossoms visible from the windows. Is this a home he previously had in…
In the world of The Man In The High Castle, nobody really has a plan. When you surrender at the front steps of the Nazi embassy or throw yourself on the mercy of the Yakuza and try to cut a deal, it’s an act of desperation. You’re trying to survive for that moment, not planting the first seeds of some master plot…
In “The Road Less Traveled.” the pace of The Man In The High Castle’s storytelling accelerates in a way it rarely did during the first season. Part of it has to do with a renewed sense of urgency, particularly with Juliana having seen evidence that San Francisco is almost certainly in danger of imminent nuclear…
Not much time has passed in the world of The Man In The High Castle between seasons one and two, but in our world, it’s a whole different story. Last fall, Donald Trump was anything but sure bet to secure the Republican nomination, let alone the presidency. Now many of us feel like we’ve woken up in an alternate…
Amazon’s Philip K. Dick adaptation The Man In The High Castle has finally cast its mysterious title character, with Deadline reporting that beloved character actor Stephen Root will play the role of well-guarded recluse Hawthorne Abendsen. The character, hidden away in a fortified structure somewhere in the…
Amazon is getting ready to bring two of its more critically well-regarded TV shows back to Prime. Golden Globe winner Mozart In The Jungle and Philip K. Dick adaptation The Man In The High Castle are returning to the service next month for third and second seasons, respectively, offering up orchestral dramedy and…
Unless you’re an especially aware child or a teacher suddenly working in an elementary school, the Pledge Of Allegiance is one of those things that seems increasingly strange as you get older. It just comes across as excessively patriotic for people to stand up, salute a flag, and then declare that this flag and…
Season one of Amazon’s The Man In The High Castle was a very mixed bag. On the plus side, it demonstrated ambitious world-building and laudable performances. But then there were confounding decisions made by inconsistently written characters, and resulting subplots seemed to exist just to gobble up time.
