'High Castle' imagines a Nazi America
- 8 years ago
The 1960s version of Times Square in Amazon's new series The Man in the High Castle is a familiar place, even for modern eyes, until you notice a very large swastika where the Coca-Cola sign should be.
New York City, circa 1962, is part of the Greater Nazi Reich, while the West Coast is run by Japan in High Castle , adapted from the Philip K. Dick sci-fi novel that imagines the Allies were defeated in World War II and the Axis took over the USA except for a swath of mountain states that became a neutral zone.
Confused, Juliana takes her sibling's place in the journey east, where a fledgling resistance leads her to Joe, who has been tapped to drive a truck with unknown cargo from New York to Canon City and harbors secrets of his own.
"We don't like to think that we could lose, and we like to think that there'll be a happy ending, and how you get by in difficult circumstances is still one of the central preoccupations of the TV series: How do you live in a world that's not the world it should be or that's unfair?"
New York City, circa 1962, is part of the Greater Nazi Reich, while the West Coast is run by Japan in High Castle , adapted from the Philip K. Dick sci-fi novel that imagines the Allies were defeated in World War II and the Axis took over the USA except for a swath of mountain states that became a neutral zone.
Confused, Juliana takes her sibling's place in the journey east, where a fledgling resistance leads her to Joe, who has been tapped to drive a truck with unknown cargo from New York to Canon City and harbors secrets of his own.
"We don't like to think that we could lose, and we like to think that there'll be a happy ending, and how you get by in difficult circumstances is still one of the central preoccupations of the TV series: How do you live in a world that's not the world it should be or that's unfair?"