Watch a trailer for HBO and David Simon's take on Philip Roth's The Plot Against America
Hot off the heels of The Deuce’s final season comes the first teaser for David Simon’s next HBO series, The Plot Against America, a six-episode adaptation of Philip Roth’s fiery 2004 novel. Set in an alternate universe where Charles Lindbergh, the famous aviator and non-interventionist many suspected of being a Nazi sympathizer, defeated Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential race, it explores how country’s slow drift towards fascism dovetails with a swift rise in antisemitism.
John Turturro stars as Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf, who remains a key ally of Lindbergh’s despite the candidate’s history of anti-semitic sentiment. Winona Ryder and Zoe Kazan, meanwhile, play sisters being pulled to different sides of the political divide. Homeland’s Morgan Spector helps round out the cast, as do Simon veterans David Krumholtz and Michael Kostroff.
