Quote Originally Posted by TheFlyingBanana View Post
Just finished season two of The Man in the High Castle.

Simply exceptional. The detail and the depiction of Berlin under a world dominating reich in 1963 is quite incredible to any student of history. An utterly compelling glimpse of what might have been...
We're now on ep 6 of the second season, and have to agree that this is one of the best programmes of the past few years, the equal of many of the more widely-acclaimed fave's IMO.

I'm more of a sci-fi rather than history buff, but clearly PKD thought through the alternative history very carefully, and you don't have to know much about WW2 to see that it could quite easily have gone the other way, particularly if (as in TMITHC) the Germans had further capitalised on technological advantages.

As you said, they have paid a lot of attention to the production design, especially Berlin, so it's a very convincing world.

I also like the usual PKD themes of uncertain realities/parallel worlds.

(I wonder whether there is also an intended/unintended pop at US hegemony/imperialism?)