Season 2 ended with the mysterious titular character (Stephen Root) telling resistance fighter Juliana Crain (Alexa Davalos) she is key to his project of collecting films from other worlds. Set in a world in which the Axis won World War II and has divided North America between Japanese and German control, The Man in the High Castle explores the political tensions between the two superpowers and the lives of people working with or fighting against their oppressive regimes. ![]() But a closer look at the mechanics of the plot shows how shoddily it’s built, which detracts from the far more compelling character stories. Season 3 devotes significantly more time to exploring the series’ multiverse, where some people can travel between different worlds that are mostly defined by which faction won World War II. Science fiction often challenges social and political issues that might be hard to tackle in different genres, so it’s ironic that the closer Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle gets to traditional science fiction, the less relevant to current reality it becomes. ![]() Spoilers ahead for previous seasons of The Man in the High Castle.
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