I could get into the details of the various characters in season three, but I hardly see the point. It’s akin to a Cold War between Germany and Japan. However, this war has been brewing for a long time, and though there have been covert missions to disrupt the enemy, the status quo has mostly remained the same. There is also a brewing war between Germany and Japan over control of the entire United States, and there is the threat of the atom bomb. The Third Reich is also trying to gain the ability to travel to other universes because they apparently want to take them over, as well, but there are too many limitations in place (at least, at this point) for that to be practical. They can hang out with their alternate universe families (and conclude that regardless of what universe they are in, they still remain connected). What can these people accomplish by going to other universes? Not much, really. However, there are a few “travelers” with the ability to go to other universes, but only if their counterpart in the other universe is already dead. That effort has largely failed to materialize. There are film reels from other universes, like our own, where the United States won the war, and the resistance is trying to use these films as propaganda to inspire a larger resistance movement. At this point, a lot of the people involved in the resistance are dead, and the ones that remain alive are largely obsessed with the sci-fi element of the series. There is a resistance, and ostensibly, that’s the focus of Man in the High Castle, but it’s also strangely the least interesting part of the series. It’s easily the most chilling scene of the season because it appears that Nazi control has been fully normalized. The United States has been under the control of brutal authoritarian regimes for nearly two decades and so the nation has slowly begun to buy into it, a terrifying idea that is only cursorily examined - in the final episode, Himmler destroys the Statue of Liberty and New York City erupts in celebration. We’re in the early 1960s now Hitler is dead (he died last season) Heinrich Himmler has assumed control and J. There’s a neutral zone that runs through Denver in between, which essentially operates like the lawless Wild West. Man in the High Castle is set in an alternate universe where the Nazis and the Japanese won World War II and split the United States between them. I’m not even sure it understands what a goldmine it has, because after three seasons, it hasn’t really even broken the surface. Unfortunately, Man in the High Castle is not really interested in exploring those ideas. Dick, there’s a tremendous amount of potential in the premise, and because there are a lot of great ideas worth exploring within that premise. Look, hypothetical commiserating reader, the reason we started watching Man in the High Castle to begin with was because we like Phillip K. Where is it going? What is it trying to say? We’ve gotten through three seasons now, and while a number of characters have been killed off (including a few major ones), the story really hasn’t advanced that much. But it’s still not good, and more to the point: There doesn’t seem to be any point to the series.
#The man in the highc astle season 3 series
Because after Frank Spotnitz ditched the series as showrunner midway through season two (leaving the rest of the season rudderless and without a showrunner), we decided to see if the new showrunner Eric Overmyer could right the ship.
The reason we watched season 3 may be fairly obvious. If you are a frustrated reader stopping by to commiserate, let me just join you in asking, “Why?” Why after such a bleak, disorganized, and unproductive season 2 did we decide to watch season 3? And why did we decide to stick with it until the end?
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