the man in the high castle season 1 recap video

A shootout between an American resistance cell in Manhattan and SS agents takes place in the first 10 minutes of the pilot, where Joe, a double agent who’s just returned from infiltrating the resistance in Colorado, absconds with a truck and a mysterious film to Canon City, Colorado, part of the neutral Rocky Mountain States between the Western Japanese Pacific States and Eastern Greater Nazi Reich. Here and elsewhere in the series, the tone is consistently thrilling, even as the story goes through predictable “everyman finds new hope to fight evil” motions.ĭirectors Daniel Percival and David Semel speed up Dick’s patient, brainy narrative for our generation of binge TV-watchers. The highest-ranking SS officer in New York, Smith yells, “Seig heil!” to his neighbor-who’s seen affixing fan flags with swastikas on them to his fence-before leading Joe into his home. In the sixth episode, Joe Blake (Luke Kleintank), who exudes the sensitive but troubled aura of James Dean, carries flowers down the sidewalk of a Long Island suburb and approaches his boss, John Smith (Rufus Sewell), at his front door. Dick’s novel set in a 1962 American dystopia, Man in the High Castle imagines a horrifying “what if” scenario of an Allied defeat, all rendered with shadowy cinematography that brings to mind the world of executive producer Ridley Scott’s classic Blade Runner.

The man in the high castle season 1 recap video