Not NP: Amazon Prime: The Man In the High Castle - Season 3 Episode 4 (Spoilers)

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Tue Dec 11 20:50:48 CST 2018


I've mostly hated MIHC, but boredom drove me to give Season 4 a chance. It
seems improved. Disclaimer: I never read MIHC, but I have read other, I
think better, PKD novels.

This season parallel worlds intersect (a theme getting very popular
elsewhere lately), but MIHC is already a parallel world, right? Anyway,
"Erasing America's History" is a major theme, which mostly means actively
and publicly demolishing monuments of US history. A scene this episode
shows propaganda filming of US Nazi youth sledgehammering a marble statue
of Abraham Lincoln, an extremely ironic play of events, considering the
recent US right-white fight against recent attempts at dismantling US Civil
War memorials.  I won't comment further, but I think that scene was good TV
writing.

David Morris


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