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Rupert Evans, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, DJ Qualls, and (a very menacing) Rufus Sewell co-star.I finished Season 1.A+.the production values are incredible.this must have an insanely huge budget.the characters, setting and story are also very well done.I hear people complaining that the series is too slow but I don't see it that way.to me it has a deliberate pace where the big moments have more meaning because it was slowly built up.the sequence with Hitler and Wegener in the S1 finale was a nail biter.the alternate timeline sci-fi aspect is a slow burn but presented in a really interesting wayĪnd that opening credit sequence fits the show perfectly.creepy rendition of 'Edelweiss' from The Sound of Music.on to Season 2! And at the same time, the huge premise never swallows up the smaller stories. Watching our conquered citizenry suffer under a cruel draconian rule that we've never had to endure, even if imagined, was still creepily potent. One might expect to be able to remain detached while watching this, but I found myself becoming increasingly uncomfortable. Meanwhile, an unseen figure known as the (titular) Man in the High Castle looms over the proceedings, inspiring the rebels with controversial film reels. And though living in very separate regimes, Joe and Juliana embark on sort of a collision course after the both get dangerously, and differently, involved with the struggling rebellion. Within this huge, expansive framework, we follow two stories - that of Joe Blake (Luke Kleintank, Bones) in New York and Juliana Crain (Alexa Davalos, Mob City) in San Fransisco. Japan and Germany are now in the midst of their own Cold War, each wondering whether or not to make a move on the other. And to make matters worse, mom and dad are fighting. Americans have now been living for 20 years under a severe dictatorship, complete with all the nightmarish ethnic cleansing one might imagine - which also includes the mentally ill and infirm. It's 1962 and Nazi Germany now rules the East Coast of the U.S., with Japan claiming the West Coast and Alaska. Nothing sets you up for the world, you just enter it and then have to figure it out as the story rolls along. The premise itself - an alternate version of history in which the Axis Powers won World War II and then divided up America into separate totalitarian regimes - is fascinating, but when you see it actually realized on screen it's even more unsettling than you might imagine.Īlexa Davalos and Luke Kleintank in The Man in the High Castle.Right out of the gate, one of the best parts of this episode was that there's no pre-scroll or exposition. But I figured that not having it sit fresh in my mind would serve me even better here. It's been a few decades since I read The Man in the High Castle so my memory of the exact goings-on aren't exactly sharp. Dick's Hugo Award-winning alternative history novel? Written by Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files, Strike Back, Hunted) and executive produced by Ridley Scott? I was instantly intrigued. Not only is it actually a great pilot, but it immediately caught my attention when I saw the initial listings. But this Pilot Season already has a standout.
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Hell, I've even questioned a few of the ones that did get picked up to series. Amazon's particular mechanism for show development comes with a high body count. You can check out the current Pilot Season episodes here. They've been doing it for a couple years now, but just recently hit upon their greatest success with Transparent, which went through the Pilot Season process, got picked up, and wound up on many critics' Best of 2014 lists - as well as walking off with a couple of Golden Globes a few days back.
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The way it works is that those with Prime memberships can stream a handful of new pilots for free, and the ones that wind up getting the best audience feedback have a chance of getting a first season pick up. Amazon's first "Pilot Season" of 2015 is underway.