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2015 American TV series or program
The Man in the High Castle | |
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Created by | Frank Spotnitz |
Based on | The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick |
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Opening theme | "Edelweiss", performed by Jeanette Olsson |
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Country of origin | United States |
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No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 30 (list of episodes) |
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Cinematography | James Hawkinson Gonzalo Amat |
Editor | Kathrynn Himoff |
Running time | 48–70 minutes |
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Network | Amazon Video |
Release | January 15, 2015 (2015-01-15) – present |
The Man in the High Castle is an American television series depicting a dystopian alternate history. Created by Frank Spotnitz, the series is produced by Amazon Studios, Scott Free Productions, Headline Pictures, Electric Shepherd Productions, and Big Light Productions. The series is based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Philip K. Dick.
In the alternative 1962, the Axis powers have won World War II and divided the United States into the Greater Nazi Reich (with New York City as its regional capital), comprising more than half of the eastern part of the United States, and the Japanese Pacific States (with San Francisco as capital) to the west. These territories are separated by a neutral zone (with Denver as its possibly unofficial capital) that encompasses the Rocky Mountains. The series follows characters whose destinies intertwine after they come into contact with a series of propaganda films that show different histories.
The pilot, which premiered in January 2015, was Amazon's "most-watched since the original series development program began". The next month, Amazon ordered a ten-episode season, which was released in November to positive reviews. A second season of ten episodes premiered in December 2016, and a third season was announced a few weeks later and released on October 5, 2018. In July 2018, it was announced at San Diego Comic-Con that the series had been renewed for a fourth season.
Setting
In the series' alternate timeline, the Axis powers have won World War II, after Giuseppe Zangara successfully murdered Franklin D. Roosevelt, thus creating a chain reaction that included the Germans dropping an atomic bomb on Washington, D.C.. The Greater Nazi Reich controls Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Denmark, Yugoslavia, Greece, Norway, Western Poland, and the Eastern United States, with New York City as its regional capital, and Washington D.C as the capitol of the United States. The Japanese Empire controls Eastern Asia, Oceania, and the Western United States, with San Francisco as its regional capital. A neutral zone encompasses the Rocky Mountains with Denver as its unofficial capital.
Plot
Season 1
In an alternate 1962, Juliana Crain is a woman in Japanese-ruled San Francisco, who becomes entangled with the resistance when her half-sister Trudy is killed by Chief Inspector Takeshi Kido of the Kenpeitai. Before she is killed, Trudy gives Juliana a film canister containing a newsreel titled The Grasshopper Lies Heavy. The film depicts an alternate history in which the Allies won the war, and Germany and Japan were defeated. The film is part of a series that the mysterious underground figure known as "the Man in the High Castle" (later revealed to be an old resistance chief, Hawthorne Abendsen) is both collecting and distributing, to the chagrin of the Reich's Führer Adolf Hitler. Juliana comes to believe the newsreel reflects some sort of alternate reality and is part of a larger truth about how the world should be. Her boyfriend, Frank Frink—who keeps his Jewish roots hidden to avoid extradition and death at the hands of the Nazis—believes the newsreel is some kind of hoax. Juliana learns that Trudy was transporting the film to a contact in Cañon City, Colorado, in the Neutral Zone, and decides to travel there in Trudy's place, to find out what her mission was.
In Cañon City, Juliana encounters Joe Blake, a member of the resistance who expects to be meeting Trudy. Joe, however, is actually a double agent working for the Nazis under Obergruppenführer John Smith, a former US Army officer who joined the Nazis and rose through the ranks to become a senior officer in the SS. Smith survives an assassination attempt, presumably by the resistance forces, and begins trying to discover who passed the information about his movements to the resistance. Frank is arrested when the Japanese and the Nazis become suspicious of Juliana's activities. Not having the information they seek, he is unable to give the Japanese what they are looking for. They kill Frank's sister and her two children in retaliation, using their Jewish heritage as an excuse for their executions. This leads Frank to plan to kill the visiting Japanese Crown Prince and Princess, but, standing in the crowd in front of the podium, he hesitates. Shots are fired, and the Crown Prince is shot by a Nazi sniper instead of by Frank.
Trade Minister Nobusuke Tagomi is a high-ranking Japanese official, in San Francisco. He meets in secret with Nazi official Rudolph Wegener, who is traveling incognito as a Swedish businessman. Tagomi and Wegener are both concerned about the power vacuum that will exist when Hitler either dies or is forced to step down because of his worsening Parkinson's disease. Wegener explains that Hitler's successor will want to use the Reich's nuclear bombs against Japan to gain control of the rest of the former United States. Currently, however, Japan and the Reich are engaged in a cold war that is full of tension but no open warfare, with the Japanese lagging behind the Germans technologically. Smith is visited in New York by another high-ranking Nazi, Reinhard Heydrich, and is wary of Heydrich's ambitions to replace Hitler. Heydrich invites Smith to go hunting, where it is made clear that Smith can either join the plot or be eliminated. Heydrich, however, receives a call he expected would confirm Hitler's assassination, but the caller is actually Hitler himself informing Heydrich that his plot failed. Smith then arrests Heydrich as a traitor.
Season 2
Hunted by the Japanese, who hold her responsible for at least one murder, Juliana claims asylum in the Nazi Reich at its San Francisco embassy. Smith, seeing that her claim is unlikely to succeed, steps in and sponsors it himself, taking Juliana to New York under his protection without Joe's knowledge. Dr. Adler tells Smith that his son Thomas has muscular dystrophy, which must be reported to the Reich so that Thomas can be euthanized as a burden to society. Smith kills Adler to keep Thomas' condition secret, making it look like a heart attack. Joe discovers that he is a product of the Lebensborn programme, and is the sole biological son of a top-ranking Nazi official in Berlin, Martin Heusmann. Eventually, Joe reconciles with Heusmann, who becomes Acting Chancellor of the Reich during Hitler's final illness and after his subsequent death, until the Nazi party can meet and select Hitler's successor. Heusmann announces on television that Hitler was assassinated by Japanese agents, and vows to bring the perpetrators to justice by any means necessary, including war. Smith is the only high-ranking Nazi official to be suspicious of Heusmann's sudden announcement. Smith appears to arrange for the release of Reinhard Heydrich on the assumption that he would be the new Führer but instead Heydrich reveals that it is Heusmann who was behind the plot. Heusmann intends to launch a Nazi nuclear onslaught against the Japanese Empire. The attack would kill tens of millions of Japanese and their emperor, level Tokyo, and decimate the Empire, forcing the surviving Japanese to absorb themselves into a global Nazi Reich that would strengthen Heusmann's position.
Smith attempts to carefully disrupt and dismantle the Heusmann conspiracy, and travels to Berlin to inform the Nazi Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler of its existence. Smith gives Himmler a hoard of physical evidence that cannot be dismissed as hearsay, and Himmler arrests Heusmann for high treason and the murder of Hitler, also detaining Joe. Himmler addresses the Volkshalle, packed with hundreds of thousands of Reich military personnel and civilians. Himmler puts aside Heusmann's intended speech declaring war on Japan, and instead informs the Reich of Heusmann's conspiracy and Smith's exposure of it. Smith is galvanized as a Nazi hero, and Himmler's accession to Führer implies new era of peace and tranquility between the Japanese Empire and the Greater Nazi Reich. Thomas, however, has learned of his condition. Inspired by his father's devotion to the Reich, Thomas turns himself in to be euthanized. Frank decides to put aside his relative pacifism and become a committed member of the American Resistance to the Japanese Empire inside the Pacific States. He eventually participates in a terrorist bombing of a central command building of the Pacific States government in Downtown San Francisco, also intended to kill Kido. The attack kills many members of the Japanese military and other top-level leadership, but not Kido. Juliana flees New York and arrives in the Neutral Zone, where she sees Trudy, who is very much alive.
Season 3
After months in prison, Joe is forced to execute Heusmann, and becomes part of Himmler's secret service. Juliana discovers that Trudy comes from an alternate reality in which it was Juliana who died, and later meets a mysterious Irish black market dealer, Wyatt Price. Meanwhile, a disfigured Frank is living in a secret community of Jews, painting antifascist artwork that is turning up in Japanese-occupied territories. Tagomi and Admiral Inokuchi realize that the Reich is putting a secret embargo on petroleum against the Empire. George Lincoln Rockwell, Reichsmarschall of North America, is plotting with J. Edgar Hoover, head of the American Reich Bureau of Investigation, against Smith, now Oberst-Gruppenführer. Nicole, after finishing a propaganda film about the "heroic" life of Thomas Smith, starts working with Billy Turner, a Nazi functionary, on a new propaganda project named Jahr Null ("Year Zero") to "erase" the history of the former United States. This includes demolishing the Lincoln Memorial; melting the Liberty Bell and reshaping it into a swastika; and destroying the Statue of Liberty. Nicole becomes romantically involved with a married New York City reporter, Thelma Harris, who is later arrested in an SS raid of a lesbian club. Himmler sends Joe to San Francisco on an ostensibly diplomatic mission, but he is actually there to kill a list of Japanese functionaries and Reich defectors, including Tagomi. Before Joe can finish, Juliana stops him by killing Joe herself. In New York City, Smith's wife Helen is devastated by Thomas's death. She accidentally kills Dr. Adler's wife, who is obsessed with the idea that her husband was murdered. Though Smith is fearful of their secrets coming out, he consents to Helen seeing a psychiatrist to deal with the trauma of this killing, and her grief over Thomas.
Meanwhile, Childan and Ed arrive in Denver, the cultural capital of the Neutral Zone, with a bus full of Americana acquisitions Childan hopes to sell in his shop. Nearly everything (including the bus itself) is stolen by a gang on motorcycles, and when Childan prepares to return to California, Ed is hesitant to leave, as he has started a relationship with a local man named Jack. Childan returns to San Francisco to find his shop illegally occupied by a Japanese family. Kido promises to return it to Childan if he will reveal where Ed is, as a means to find Frank. Kido tracks down Frank, and ritually beheads him in the former Manzanar concentration camp. Smith blackmails Hoover and turns the table on Rockwell, who is exiled in Havana, German Cuba, by Himmler; Smith later has Rockwell killed, and is promoted to Reichsmarschall, being introduced to a program, headed by Nazi scientist Josef Mengele and started from studies on a woman who died and returned from another world, to send people (and Wehrmacht troops) through to alternate worlds using a machine housed in the Lackawanna mines, where, according to string theory, an anomaly makes such travel possible. Juliana begins experiencing the memories of her other world counterpart, who was killed by Joe in the mines. She organizes an expedition with some members of the resistance to destroy the machine. Smith and Himmler witness a test of the machine, which is moderately successful; one human subject appears to travel, but several others are torn apart. Julianna has shown Joe's secret Reich files to Tagomi, who uses them to pressure Smith to drop the embargo. Smith's daughter Jennifer is now old enough to submit to the mandatory medical examination that revealed Thomas's illness. Fearful of the possible results and hoping for a postponement, Helen flees with her daughters to a beach house. Himmler declares the beginning of Jahr Null with the Luftwaffe's bombing of the Statue of Liberty, which incites chaos in New York City. Himmler sends Nicole to a reeducation camp in Germany. A sniper shoots Himmler. Juliana and Hawthorne Abendsen—the Man in the High Castle—are captured by the Nazis. Smith learns from Abendsen that people can only travel to the other world if their counterpart there has died. Smith rushes to stop Juliana from escaping, and shoots her just as she travels, disappearing before his eyes.
Cast
Main
- Alexa Davalos as Juliana Crain, a young woman from San Francisco who is outwardly happy living under Japanese control. She is an expert in aikido and is friendly with the Japanese people who live in San Francisco. As Juliana learns of The Man in the High Castle and his films, she begins to rebel.
- Rupert Evans as Frank Frink (seasons 1–3), Juliana's boyfriend at the beginning of the series. He works in a factory creating replicas of prewar American pistols, and creates original jewelry and sketches on his own time. When Juliana vanishes just after the police kill her sister, Frank is taken into custody. Soon after, he turns against the state and works with the American Resistance.
- Luke Kleintank as Joe Blake (seasons 1–3), a new recruit to the underground American Resistance who is actually an agent working for the SS, under Obergruppenführer John Smith. He transports a reel of the forbidden film The Grasshopper Lies Heavy to the neutral Rocky Mountain States as part of his mission to infiltrate the Resistance. Joe is forced to kill his own father and is later killed himself after a scuffle with Juliana, who questions his true allegiance.
- DJ Qualls as Ed McCarthy, Frank's co-worker and friend. He closely follows politics and cares very much about Juliana and Frank's well being. Season three reveals that Ed McCarthy is gay and explores the persecution of LGBT persons.
- Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as Nobusuke Tagomi, the Trade Minister of the Pacific States of America. His true loyalties are ambiguous throughout the first season.
- Rufus Sewell as John Smith, an SS Obergruppenführer, later promoted to Oberst-Gruppenführer, and then to Reichsmarshall of North America who is investigating the Resistance in New York. He is a natural-born American who had served in the US Army Signal Corps. He starts out living a comfortable suburban life with a wife and three children but subsequently moves the family to Manhattan.
- Joel de la Fuente as Chief Inspector Takeshi Kido, the ruthless head of the Kenpeitai stationed in San Francisco.
- Brennan Brown as Robert Childan (seasons 2–3; recurring season 1), an antique store owner who makes secret deals with Frank.
- Callum Keith Rennie as Gary Connell (season 2), leader of the West Coast Resistance movement and enforcer for Abendsen.
- Bella Heathcote as Nicole Dörmer (seasons 2–3), a young Berlin-born filmmaker who crosses paths with Joe, and moves to the US in season 3.
- Chelah Horsdal as Helen Smith (season 3; recurring seasons 1–2), John's wife
- Michael Gaston as Mark Sampson (season 3; recurring season 1), a Jewish friend of Frank's living in San Francisco, who later relocates to the Neutral Zone.
- Jason O'Mara as Wyatt Price, also known as Liam (season 3), an Irishman who is a black market supplier of information to Juliana.
Recurring
- Aaron Blakely as Erich Raeder (seasons 1–3), an SS-Sturmbannführer working with Smith.
- Carsten Norgaard as Rudolph Wegener (seasons 1–3), a disillusioned high-ranking Nazi official who trades secrets with Tagomi.
- Rick Worthy as Lemuel "Lem" Washington (seasons 1–present), the owner of the Sunrise Diner in Canon City and member of the Resistance.
- Camille Sullivan as Karen Vecchione (seasons 1–2), a leader of the Pacific States branch of the Resistance, later killed in a Kempeitai shoot-out.
- Lee Shorten as Sergeant Hiroyuki Yoshida (seasons 1–2), Inspector Kido's right-hand man, killed in the bomb attack on Kempeitai headquarters.
- Arnold Chun as Kotomichi (seasons 1–present), Tagomi's assistant, who came from the parallel world after his hometown, Nagasaki, was destroyed by the American A-bombs.
- Bernhard Forcher as Hugo Reiss (season 1), the Nazi ambassador to the Japanese Pacific States.
- Christine Chatelain as Laura Crothers (season 1), Frank's sister.
- Hank Harris as Randall Becker (season 1), a member of the Pacific States branch of the Resistance.
- Allan Havey as the Origami Man (season 1), an SD operative sent to Canon City to eliminate members of the Resistance.
- Burn Gorman as the Marshal (season 1), a bounty hunter searching for concentration camp escapees.
- Shaun Ross as the Shoe Shine Boy (season 1), a young albino man living in Canon City.
- Rob LaBelle as Carl (season 1), a bookstore clerk in Canon City who is revealed to be a concentration camp escapee, David P. Frees, killed by the Marshal.
- Geoffrey Blake as Jason Meyer (season 1), a Jewish member of the Resistance.
- Daisuke Tsui as the Crown Prince of Japan (season 1)
- Mayumi Yoshida as the Crown Princess of Japan (season 1)
- Amy Okuda as Christine Tanaka (season 1), an office worker working in the Nippon Building.
- Neal Bledsoe as Captain Connolly (season 1), an American SS officer serving under John Smith, later revealed to be a spy working for Reinhard Heydrich.
- Hiro Kanagawa as Taishi Okamura (season 2), the leader of a Yakuza based in the Pacific States.
- Louis Ozawa Changchien as Paul Kasoura (season 2), a wealthy lawyer who collects prewar American memorabilia.
- Tao Okamoto as Betty Kasoura (season 2), Paul's wife.
- Stephen Root as Hawthorne Abendsen / The Man in the High Castle (seasons 2–3), the head of the American antifascist resistance, creating films set in other worlds.
- Sebastian Roché as Reichsminister Martin Heusmann (seasons 2–3), Joe's estranged father and a high-ranking member of the Reich.
- Cara Mitsuko as Sarah (season 2), a Japanese American Resistance member, Frank's confidante and a survivor of the Manzanar concentration camp.
- Tate Donovan as George Dixon (season 2), Trudy's father and a member of the resistance in New York City. He is killed by Juliana to save San Francisco from an atomic bomb attack by the Nazis.
- Michael Hogan as Hagan (seasons 2–3), an ex-preacher and leader in the San Francisco Resistance.
- Tzi Ma as Rikugun-Taishō Hidehisa Onoda (season 2), a leading member of the Japanese army.
- Giles Panton as Billy Turner (season 3), a Nazi Reich American advertising executive who is working with Nicole Dörmer to 'erase' the memories of the former U.S. from the minds of the citizens in the Nazi Reich America.
- Ann Magnuson as Caroline Abendsen (season 3), the wife of Hawthorne Abendsen.
- Laura Mennell as Thelma Harris (season 3), a closeted lesbian gossip column reporter in New York City.
- Janet Kidder as Lila Jacobs (season 3), one of the many Jews protected in a Catholic commune in the Neutral Zone.
- Jeffrey Nordling as Dr. Daniel Ryan (season 3), a Jungian therapist employed to treat Helen Smith's grief following the death of her son Thomas.
- Akie Kotabe as Sergeant Nakamura (season 3), a Japanese-American of mixed ethnicity who works under Kido as Yoshida's replacement.
- Tamlyn Tomita as Tamiko Watanabe (season 3), an Okinawan-Hawaiian painter who befriends Tagomi.
- Eijiro Ozaki as Admiral Inokuchi (season 3), the head of the Imperial Japanese Navy Fleet stationed in the San Francisco Bay.
- James Neate as Jack (season 3), a man with whom Ed becomes romantically involved in the Neutral Zone.
John Smith's family
- Quinn Lord as Thomas Smith (seasons 1–2, season 3 ), John and Helen's son and the eldest child. A member of the Hitler Youth, it is later revealed that he has inherited a form of muscular dystrophy from his father's side of the family. He later hands himself in to the Reich Sanitation Services and is killed.
- Gracyn Shinyei as Amy Smith (season 1–present), John and Helen's daughter.
- Genea Charpentier as Jennifer Smith (season 1–present), John and Helen's daughter.
Juliana Crain's family
- Daniel Roebuck as Arnold Walker (seasons 1–2), Juliana's stepfather and Trudy's father.
- Macall Gordon as Anne Crain Walker (seasons 1–2), Juliana's mother who is still bitter about losing her husband in World War II.
- Conor Leslie as Trudy Walker (seasons 1–3), Juliana's half-sister who is shot dead by the Kempeitai. However, she is shown alive at the end of the second season, revealed in the third season to be from an alternate timeline in which it was Juliana who died.
Nobusuke Tagomi's family
- Yukari Komatsu as Michiko Tagomi (season 2), Nobusuke's wife.
- Eddie Shin as Noriaki Tagomi (season 2), Nobusuke and Michiko's son.
Historical characters
- Wolf Muser as Adolf Hitler (seasons 1–2)
- Ray Proscia as SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich (seasons 1–2)
- Keone Young as Gensui Shunroku Hata (season 1)
- Kenneth Tigar as SS-Reichsführer, later Führer of the Reich, Heinrich Himmler (seasons 2–3)
- Lisa Paxton as Eva Braun, Hitler's wife (season 2)
- David Furr as Reichsmarschall George Lincoln Rockwell (season 3)
- William Forsythe as J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the American Reich Bureau of Investigation (season 3)
- John Hans Tester as Dr. Josef Mengele (season 3)
Episodes
Series overview
Season | Episodes | Originally released | ||
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1 | 10 | 1 | January 15, 2015 (2015-01-15) | |
9 | November 20, 2015 (2015-11-20) | |||
2 | 10 | December 16, 2016 (2016-12-16) | ||
3 | 10 | October 5, 2018 (2018-10-05) |
Season 1 (2015)
The pilot and the second episode were screened at a special Comic-Con event. The season premiered on November 20, 2015.
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
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1 | 1 | "The New World" | David Semel | Frank Spotnitz | January 15, 2015 (2015-01-15) | |
In 1962 Nazi-occupied New York, Joe Blake volunteers to serve the resistance by driving a truck to the Neutral Zone in the Rockies. In Japan-occupied San Francisco, Juliana Crain receives a package from her sister Trudy, only to later see her shot by the Japanese police. Juliana discovers the package contains impossible footage of the Allies winning World War II. Her boyfriend, Frank, urges her to go to the police to plead her innocence. However, Juliana lies to him and instead heads to the Neutral Zone to deliver the film in Trudy's place. A woman attempts to steal the film but escapes only with decoys. The Japanese trade minister, Nobusuke Tagomi, meets the Nazi ambassador to finalize the details of a visit to San Francisco by the Japanese Crown Prince. Later Tagomi meets Rudolph Wegener, a high-ranking Nazi official pretending to be a Swedish businessman. Joe and Juliana meet and become friends in Canon City in the Neutral Zone. In San Francisco, the Kempeitai—the Japanese secret police—begin searching for Juliana because of her connection to Trudy. Blake calls a Nazi commandant, Smith, revealing that he is secretly working for them. | ||||||
2 | 2 | "Sunrise" | Daniel Percival | Frank Spotnitz | November 20, 2015 (2015-11-20) | |
In the Canon City diner, Juliana meets a man whom she assumes is her contact. Smith tells Joe that this contact is actually an undercover SD agent working against the resistance and orders him not to intervene. However, when Juliana goes to meet the agent, Joe drives up behind her to help her. The SD agent tries to kill Juliana, but she is able to throw him over a railing to his death. In New York, Smith is attacked by resistance fighters in an assassination attempt. In San Francisco, the Kempeitai arrest Frank to find out the whereabouts of Juliana. In prison, Frank meets a resistance fighter, who convinces him not to inform on Juliana. The Kempeitai kill Frank's sister and her children for his refusal to help them, but stop the planned execution of Frank when the woman who stole Juliana's bag is found with fake film reels. | ||||||
3 | 3 | "The Illustrated Woman" | Ken Olin | Thomas Schnauz and Evan Wright | November 20, 2015 (2015-11-20) | |
Joe spots a Nazi bounty hunter named the Marshal in town. The Marshal is looking for the man Juliana killed. Joe and Juliana go to dispose of the dead agent's body and car and, while doing this, find a map which leads them to a cave where they find a dead woman and a list of names. They realize that Juliana's boss from the diner was her actual contact. The Marshal realizes Juliana's true identity and tries to kill her. In San Francisco, the Japanese Crown Prince arrives in the city. Tagomi tells Wegener that his contact is Japanese Science Minister Shimura. Wegener is to contact him during the Crown Prince's speech at the Nazi Embassy. Frank breaks the news of his sister and her children's deaths to his brother-in-law. Frank also returns to work, where he makes a real gun. | ||||||
4 | 4 | "Revelations" | Michael Rymer | Thomas Schnauz and Jace Richdale | November 20, 2015 (2015-11-20) | |
Joe saves Juliana from the Marshal. Joe and Juliana confront Lemuel, who leads them into the woods, where they are surrounded by resistance fighters. Lemuel forces them to give up the films and leave. Joe and Juliana are attacked again by the Marshal, causing Joe to reveal to the Marshal that he is a Nazi agent. The Marshal pursues Juliana on the highway. When Juliana gets far enough away, she burns her car and hides. When the Marshal reaches the car, he assumes that she has died. Back in New York, after he is attacked on the way to work, Smith suspects SS Captain Connolly is the informant who supplied information about his movements to the resistance. In the Pacific States, Frank heads to the Crown Prince's speech with a gun to assassinate him but hesitates. The Crown Prince is then shot by an unseen gunman. Wegener leaves a microfilm capsule in the Science Minister's pocket. | ||||||
5 | 5 | "The New Normal" | Bryan Spicer | Rob Williams | November 20, 2015 (2015-11-20) | |
The Crown Prince is rushed to the hospital after the attack, and the captain of the Imperial Guard is ordered to commit seppuku for failing to protect the Crown Prince. Kido then states that if he cannot find the gunman, he will do the same. Meanwhile, Juliana returns home to find an angry Frank, who alludes to his time in prison. Juliana visits her parents and learns that the Japanese killed Frank's sister and children. When she later reports to the Japanese military, she is interrogated and asked about Trudy's partner, Randall, but is ultimately let go. She then visits Simone and meets an agent of the resistance who gives her a visitor's card to the government building. Joe returns to New York from the Neutral Zone and is kidnapped by Gestapo agents and brought to Smith's office. He is then compelled to report to Smith what happened in Canon City, though his report is contradicted by the Marshal's. Smith tells Joe he has failed in his mission because the leader of the resistance escaped. Smith believes that Joe is being truthful and invites him over for Victory in America Day. | ||||||
6 | 6 | "Three Monkeys" | Nelson McCormick | Rob Williams | November 20, 2015 (2015-11-20) | |
Joe celebrates VA Day at Smith's house. Juliana accepts a job working for Tagomi as she continues her search for answers. Smith, who has received intelligence about Wegener's activities but also happens to be an old friend, intercepts him at the airport and invites him for dinner hoping to probe him for answers. Smith has Wegener arrested. Smith catches Joe sneaking through his files. | ||||||
7 | 7 | "Truth" | Brad Anderson | Emma Frost | November 20, 2015 (2015-11-20) | |
Juliana makes a startling discovery about her sister's death. Frank reflects on recent events and makes an important decision about his future, and Tagomi gains greater insight into Juliana's past. Smith catches Joe in his home office and interrogates him about Juliana and Canon City. | ||||||
8 | 8 | "End of the World" | Karyn Kusama | Walon Green | November 20, 2015 (2015-11-20) | |
Juliana and Frank make plans to escape the Pacific States, only to be dragged back into danger by Joe, who tries to retrieve a new film and walks directly into the Kempeitai's ambush. Meanwhile, Smith's loyalty is put to the ultimate test when he is confronted with a startling family discovery. The episode is named after the song of the same name, which is performed by Lini Evans during the episode with Japanese lyrics that she cowrote. | ||||||
9 | 9 | "Kindness" | Michael Slovis | Jace Richdale | November 20, 2015 (2015-11-20) | |
With time running out, a desperate Frank is forced to put his life on the line to help Joe. The pieces finally fall into place for Smith, as he uncovers who was behind the assassination attempt. Tagomi is devastated when he is confronted with the consequences of his scheming, and Kido's investigation takes a dramatic turn when he makes an important discovery. Meanwhile, Frank and Juliana, after taking possession of the new film, decide to watch it, but they are shocked to find out that the film describes, apparently in the near future, a nuclear-bombed San Francisco in which the SS round up and execute survivors. Frank is shown being executed by Joe, who is wearing an SS uniform. | ||||||
10 | 10 | "A Way Out" | Daniel Percival | Rob Williams | November 20, 2015 (2015-11-20) | |
Frank and Juliana angrily confront Joe as a Nazi agent. He goes to the Nazi embassy with the film. Smith learns that Heydrich is preparing a trap. Kido acts on the information from the Yakuza and kills the Nazi sniper who shot the Crown Prince. Ed is caught with Frank's gun and is used as a scapegoat for the attempted assassination of the Crown Prince to avoid the need for Kido to commit seppuku. Heydrich demands Smith's loyalty ahead of Wegener's assassination of Hitler. Wegener says goodbye to his family and travels to Hitler's alpine castle, filmed at Hohenwerfen Castle. However, after confronting Hitler, who is watching the alternate newsreels in his huge film vault and says that he learns something every time he watches, Wegener kills himself instead. Smith captures the traitor Heydrich and reports him to Hitler. Tagomi goes to Union Square to meditate with Juliana's charm. He opens his eyes to find himself in an alternate 1962 in which the Allies won World War II and the United States is in the midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis. |
Season 2 (2016)
The second season was released on December 16, 2016.
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
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11 | 1 | "The Tiger's Cave" | Daniel Percival | Frank Spotnitz | December 16, 2016 (2016-12-16) | |
Joe returns to New York to hand over the film to Smith and submits his resignation, but Smith refuses to accept the resignation before he delivers the film to Hitler. Karen and Lem confront Juliana for not shooting Joe before she is tranquilized. She wakes up in the home of Hawthorne Abendsen, The Man in the High Castle, where he keeps his vast film collection. Meanwhile, General Onoda reveals to Tagomi and his staff that the capsule that Science Minister Shimada found in his pocket contained plans for a nuclear weapon that the Empire intends to use to crush the Nazis, much to Tagomi's dismay. Frank confronts Arnold about spying over his own family then, desperate to save Ed, goes to ask for Childan's help. Juliana attempts to get answers from an evasive Abendsen and receives a clue that may help avert the nuclear war. Gary Connell, the leader of the West Coast Resistance, goes against orders and tries to kill Juliana, but she escapes at a Kempeitai checkpoint. A gunfight ensues between the Resistance members and the Japanese soldiers, and Karen is killed in the crossfire. | ||||||
12 | 2 | "The Road Less Traveled" | Colin Bucksey | Rob Williams | December 16, 2016 (2016-12-16) | |
Kido investigates the shootout at the checkpoint and suspects that Juliana is involved. Frank decides to get Paul Kasoura, a defense lawyer, to help Ed. In desperation, he reveals to Kasoura that the antique goods that he and Childan sold him are fake, leading the pair to be imprisoned by the Yakuza with whom Kasoura has a connection. Frank is almost killed by Okamura, the Yakuza leader, in the previous incident with Joe. However, he manages to convince Okamura to allow him to repay his debt for the forgery if Ed is to work with him as his assistant. Kido is forced by Okamura to release Ed. He later pins the assassination of the Crown Prince on the deceased Karen. Joe is ordered by Smith to visit his father, Reichminister Heusmann, in Berlin. Smith tells Joe that Juliana is possibly dead. Meanwhile, Juliana evades Gary and Lem and tries to convince her parents to leave San Francisco, to no avail. Using the clue about a mysterious man on whom Abendsen is fixated, Juliana discovers the man to be a family friend, George Dixon, who is Trudy's real father. Learning that he may be in Brooklyn, Juliana risks her life to reach the Nazi embassy and request asylum and leaves a letter to Frank. | ||||||
13 | 3 | "Travelers" | Daniel Sackheim | Erik Oleson | December 16, 2016 (2016-12-16) | |
Smith is warned by Dr. Adler, the family physician, to end the life of his son Thomas, as the boy's incurable illness prevents him from being accepted in the Reich. Juliana makes it to New York and is questioned by Smith, who is notified of her arrival and arranges her stay. He keeps that a secret from Joe. Frank learns of Juliana's defection to the Nazi states but does not believe Gary on her betrayal. While he works with Ed and Childan to create forgeries for the Yakuza to repay his debt, Frank is convinced by the Resistance to help them liberate innocent citizens from the Kempeitai, in retaliation for the checkpoint murders. While saving a Resistance member, Sarah, Frank commits his first kill against the Japanese. Juliana looks for Joe but is told by his ex-lover that he has rejoined the Nazis, leading her to think he may have betrayed her. Joe travels to Berlin and meets with his father but is distant because of Heusmann's treatment of Joe's mother. Joe crosses paths with Nicole Dörmer, a filmmaker. Smith is unable to kill his son when he is given the chance to do so. He meets with Dr. Adler and kills him to ensure his silence. | ||||||
14 | 4 | "Escalation" | David Petrarca | Wesley Strick | December 16, 2016 (2016-12-16) | |
Juliana adjusts to life in the Reich, under the tutelage of Smith's wife, Helen, and Thomas. While looking for Dixon at his old apartment, she is pursued by two unknown agents and is almost killed. General Onoda has the Kempeitai execute numerous citizens for the murder of the Japanese soldiers during the Resistance rescue. Enraged, Frank starts to neglect his debt with the Yakuza and accepts a risky assignment to siphon materials from an unexploded Japanese bomb for a Resistance mission, much to Ed's dismay. Frank begins to get close with Sarah during the assignment. Smith reveals to a suspecting Helen that he killed Dr. Adler to keep their son's illness a secret. Kido gets Onoda drunk and tricks him into approving an unknown order. After escaping from her pursuers, Juliana is approached by Dixon. Tagomi travels to the alternate timeline once again and sees his still-living wife, Michiko, who is deceased in his own timeline. | ||||||
15 | 5 | "Duck and Cover" | John Fawcett | Erik Oleson & Rick Cleveland | December 16, 2016 (2016-12-16) | |
Dixon is revealed to be a Resistance leader and meets up with Juliana after she tells him that the Man in the High Castle sent her. Juliana tells him he may be somehow involved in the possible San Francisco bombing, as he has appeared several times in the films. Dixon forces Juliana to spy on Smith and his family to redeem her betrayal when she allowed Joe to escape with the film. Joe is upset when his father brings him to his place of birth and reveals that he is one of the Lebensborn, an experiment to perfect racial purity. Still, he takes up his father's offer to remain in Berlin for a few more days. Kido attempts to use Onoda's approval to extradite Juliana from the Nazi states, but he fails and reveals his motive for visiting Smith for an unknown reason. Frank becomes further involved with the Resistance, and Ed is revealed to be under the control of the Kempeitai to report on the Yakuza's counterfeiting activities in exchange for his and Frank's lives. Lem assists Abendsen with moving to a new location because the location of the High Castle may have compromised. Abendsen destroys most of the films before he leaves. Tagomi reveals himself to the alternate Michiko and his son Noriyuke but discovers that the alternate Tagomi's relationship with them is estranged. He is shocked to see Noriyuke married to an alternate Juliana with their son. | ||||||
16 | 6 | "Kintsugi" | Paul Holahan | Francesca Gardiner | December 16, 2016 (2016-12-16) | |
Juliana starts to socialize with the Ladies Committee, as planned, and gains the support of one of its members, Lucy. Helen discovers that Thomas has been selected by the Hitler Youth group to go for an expedition in South America. She forbids her son to go until she finds out that Smith arranged to have their son disappear from society by staging a fake abduction and living a life of anonymity. Joe starts to get closer to Nicole, who reveals herself as one of the Lebensborn and brings him to meet with some of the others. After spending the night with Nicole, Joe begins to embrace his real heritage. Tagomi attempts to mend his alternate self's relationship with his family, and is dismayed by the alternate Noriyuke's forgoing of the Japanese culture. Kido is informed by his right-hand man, Yoshida, that they have found Abendsen's burnt hideout and learns that the Yakuza is also looking for the films. | ||||||
17 | 7 | "Land O' Smiles" | Karyn Kusama | Rob Williams | December 16, 2016 (2016-12-16) | |
Ed and Childan go to Okamura to repay their debt with the sale from Frank's forgery but are locked up in a storage room when Kido and his men pay a visit. Kido kills Okamura and the Yakuza members who are present for treason, as he has deduced the Yakuza to be working with the Nazis. Yoshida discovers Ed and Childan but lets them go. Frank is tasked to plant a bomb at the harbor, where General Onoda is visiting. However, Frank aborts the mission when he discovers that the Japanese are secretly building a nuclear bomb there. He alerts the Resistance of that information. At Adler's funeral, Smith is dismayed when Adler's wife, Alice, raises her suspicion on her husband's sudden death and plans to have an autopsy performed. Juliana also attends the funeral and while she talks to Thomas, she notices that he has a seizure and covers for him. Later, she promises Helen not to reveal Thomas's condition. Smith has further troubles when Himmler informs him that Hitler has suffered a collapse. | ||||||
18 | 8 | "Loose Lips" | Alex Zakrzewski | Rick Cleveland | December 16, 2016 (2016-12-16) | |
Smith questions Juliana about Joe's film and learns of San Francisco's impending destruction. Lucy tells Juliana that she knows that supposedly live footage of Hitler is actually archival because her husband managed the television broadcast. Juliana shares with Dixon her belief that Hitler may be dead. The Resistance decides that it is time to stage an uprising. Juliana is left concerned that she may have caused the nuclear catastrophe that she has been trying to prevent. Heusmann is made Acting Chancellor while Joe decides to support his father. Frank learns from Arnold that Juliana has warned them to leave San Francisco and has not betrayed him. Enraged, he confronts Gary, but the Resistance is determined to go ahead with the uprising. Armed with the knowledge from Juliana and Kido, Smith misleads a secretly imprisoned Heydrich into thinking Germany and Japan are already at war. That leads Heydrich to confirm what Smith has suspected: a conspiracy to create a pretext for war with the Japanese exists among the Nazi ranks. Smith executes Heydrich but not before learning that it is someone else who is the mastermind behind the rush to war. Hitler passes away. Now in charge is the new chancellor, Heusmann, who is revealed to be the one to have orchestrated the looming conflict. | ||||||
19 | 9 | "Detonation" | Chris Long | Wesley Strick | December 16, 2016 (2016-12-16) | |
Tagomi watches a film with his alternate family on the recent test detonation of a hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll. Finally resolved to stop war between Japan and the Nazis, Tagomi takes the film and returns to his reality. Thomas confides to Juliana about his condition, but their conversation is secretly being recorded. Smith later learns of the tape and takes it to protect Thomas' secret. In a televised address, Heusmann frames the Japanese for Hitler's death by poison and promises retaliation, much to Joe's horror. Frank decides to assist the Resistance in assassinating Onoda by using their homemade bombs. Before the operation, he convinces Ed and Childan to leave San Francisco. Frank and Sarah smuggle a car bomb into the underground parking garage of the Kempeitai. They set the bomb's timer and attempt to leave the building, but they are spotted by Kido. A gunfight starts in the lobby. Just as Tagomi arrives, the bomb detonates, killing General Onoda and his staff and collapsing most of the building. The fates of Frank and Sarah are not shown. | ||||||
20 | 10 | "Fallout" | Daniel Percival | Erik Oleson | December 16, 2016 (2016-12-16) | |
Tagomi and Kido, who survived the bombing, deal with the aftermath of the destruction of the Kempeitai headquarters. Afterwards, Kido travels to New York and plays the film for Smith that appears to provide evidence that the Japanese have a hydrogen bomb. The resistance attempts to avenge Karen's death by killing Juliana, but she violently escapes. She then confronts and kills Dixon, who was threatening to expose Smith by broadcasting the tape of her conversation with Thomas. Smith travels to Berlin with the film to convince the Nazi superiors not to attack Japan to avoid nuclear retaliation. Smith meets privately with Himmler to expose Heusmann as a traitor. After arresting Heusmann and Joe, Himmler addresses the worldwide public from the Volkshalle, possibly assuming control of the Reich, and rewards Smith for his service. The recognition that Smith receives inspires Thomas to turn himself over to the Public Health Department to be euthanized. After traveling to the Neutral Zone, a bereft Juliana learns from Abendsen that hope remains and that her sister is alive. Finally, Lem hands over Abendsen's remaining films to Tagomi. |
Season 3 (2018)
The third season was released on October 5, 2018.
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
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21 | 1 | "Now More Than Ever, We Care About You" | Daniel Percival | Wesley Strick | October 5, 2018 (2018-10-05) |
22 | 2 | "Imagine Manchuria" | Alex Zakrzewski | Eric Overmyer | October 5, 2018 (2018-10-05) |
23 | 3 | "Sensô Kôi" | Ernest Dickerson | Chris Collins | October 5, 2018 (2018-10-05) |
24 | 4 | "Sabra" | John Fawcett | Eric Simonson | October 5, 2018 (2018-10-05) |
25 | 5 | "The New Colossus" | Daniel Percival | Wesley Strick | October 5, 2018 (2018-10-05) |
26 | 6 | "History Ends" | Meera Menon | Elizabeth Benjamin and Kalen Egan | October 5, 2018 (2018-10-05) |
27 | 7 | "Excess Animus" | Steph Green | Dre Ryan | October 5, 2018 (2018-10-05) |
28 | 8 | "Kasumi (Through the Mists)" | Jennifer Getzinger | William N. Fordes | October 5, 2018 (2018-10-05) |
29 | 9 | "Baku" | Deborah Chow | Chris Collins and Chris Wu | October 5, 2018 (2018-10-05) |
30 | 10 | "Jahr Null" | Daniel Percival | Eric Overmyer and Wesley Strick | October 5, 2018 (2018-10-05) |
Production
In 2010, it was announced that the BBC would co-produce a four-part TV adaptation of The Man in the High Castle for BBC One together with Headline Pictures, FremantleMedia Enterprises and Scott Free Films. Director Ridley Scott was to act as executive producer of the adaptation by Howard Brenton. On February 11, 2013, Variety reported that Syfy was producing the book as a four-part miniseries, with Frank Spotnitz and Scott as executive producers, co-produced with Scott Free Productions, Headline Pictures and Electric Shepherd Prods.
On October 1, 2014, Amazon Studios began filming the pilot episode for a potential television drama to be broadcast on their Prime web video streaming service. Adapted by Spotnitz, the project was produced for Amazon by Scott, David Zucker and Jordan Sheehan for Scott Free, Stewart Mackinnon and Christian Baute for Headline Pictures, Isa Hackett and Kalen Egan for Electric Shepherd and Spotnitz's Big Light Productions. The pilot was released by Amazon Studios on January 15, 2015. Amazon Studios' production process is somewhat different from those of other conventional television channels in that they produce pilot episodes of a number of different prospective programs, then release them and gather data on their success. The most promising shows are then picked up as regular series. On February 18, 2015, Amazon announced that The Man in the High Castle was given the green-light along with four other series, and a full season would be produced.
Principal filming for the pilot took place in Seattle, with the city standing in for San Francisco and locations in New York City, as well as Roslyn, Washington, which was the long-time shooting location for Northern Exposure. Sites used in Seattle include the Seattle Center Monorail, the Paramount Theatre, a newspaper office in the Pike Place Market area, as well as various buildings in the city's Capitol Hill, International District, and Georgetown neighborhoods. In Roslyn, the production used external shots of the Roslyn Cafe which featured prominently in Northern Exposure along with several local businesses and scenery.
For the series, filming took place in Vancouver, British Columbia, in the downtown area of West Georgia Street, along the promenade of the Coast Capital Savings building in April 2015. In May and June 2015 filming also took place at the University of British Columbia. Exterior shots of Hohenwerfen Castle in Werfen, Austria, were filmed in September 2015 for the tenth episode of the first season.
Amazon announced in January 2017 that they were bringing on new executive producer and showrunner Eric Overmyer for the third season to replace Spotnitz, who had departed from the show during the second season.
Reception
The first season received critical acclaim. Rotten Tomatoes gives it an approval rating of 95% based on reviews from 58 critics, with an average rating of 7.54 out of 10. The site's critical consensus states,
By executive producer Ridley Scott, The Man in the High Castle is unlike anything else on TV, with an immediately engrossing plot driven by quickly developed characters in a fully realized post-WWII dystopia.
Metacritic gives the first season a score of 77 out of 100, based on reviews from 30 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
Meredith Woerner from io9 wrote, "I can honestly say I loved this pilot. It's an impressive, streamlined undertaking of a fairly complicated and very beloved novel." Matt Fowler from IGN gave it 9.2 out of 10 and described the series as "a superb, frightening experience filled with unexpected twists and (some sci-fi) turns". Brian Moylan of The Guardian was positive and praised the convincing depiction as well as the complex and gripping plot. The Los Angeles Times described the pilot as "provocative" and "smartly adapted by The X-Files' Frank Spotnitz". The Daily Telegraph said it was "absorbing", and Wired called it "must-see viewing". Entertainment Weekly said it was "engrossing" and "a triumph in world-building", cheering, "The Man in the High Castle is king."
After the season, Rolling Stone included it on a list of the 40 best science fiction television shows of all time.
Amazon subsequently announced it was the service's most-streamed original series and had been renewed for a second season.
The second season received mixed reviews. Rotten Tomatoes gives it an approval rating of 64%, based on reviews from 25 critics with an average rating of 7.0 out of 10. The site's critical consensus states,
Although its plot is admittedly unwieldy, The Man in the High Castle's second season expands its fascinating premise in powerful new directions, bolstered by stunning visuals, strong performances, and intriguing new possibilities.
Metacritic gives season 2 a score of 62 out of 100, based on reviews from ten critics. The third season was met with positive reviews. Rotten Tomatoes gives it an approval rating of 86%, based on reviews from 21 critics with an average rating of 7.45 out of 10. The site's critical consensus states,
The crafty addition of minor sci-fi elements and a terrific William Forsythe to the show's already engrossing narrative make The Man in the High Castle's third season another worthy binge.
Metacritic gives season 3 a score of 70 out of 100, based on reviews from five critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
Accolades
Year | Award | Category | Nominee(s) | Result |
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2015 | IGN Awards | Best New TV Series | The Man in the High Castle | Nominated |
South by Southwest Awards | Excellence in Title Design | Patrick Clair | Nominated | |
2016 | American Society of Cinematographers Awards | Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Television Movie, Mini-Series or Pilot | James Hawkinson (Episode: "The New World") | Nominated |
Creative Arts Emmy Awards | Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series | James Hawkinson | Won | |
Outstanding Main Title Design | Patrick Clair, Paul Kim, Jose Limon, Raoul Marks | Won | ||
Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Contemporary or Fantasy Program (One Hour or More) | Drew Boughton, Linda King, Brenda Meyers-Ballard | Nominated | ||
Outstanding Special Visual Effects | The Man in the High Castle | Nominated | ||
Critics' Choice Television Awards | Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series | Rufus Sewell | Nominated | |
Monte-Carlo Television Festival | Best TV Series Drama | The Man in the High Castle | Nominated | |
Saturn Awards | Best New Media Television Series | The Man in the High Castle | Nominated | |
USC Scripter Awards | Best Television Script | Frank Spotnitz and Philip K. Dick | Nominated | |
Visual Effects Society Awards | Outstanding Created Environment in an Episode, Commercial, or Real-Time Project | Casi Blume, David Andrade, Nick Chamberlain, Lawson Deming | Nominated | |
Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode | Lawson Deming, Cory Jamieson, Casi Blume, Nick Chamberlain | Nominated | ||
Young Artist Awards | Best Performance in a TV Series – Recurring Young Actor (14–21) | Quinn Lord | Nominated | |
2017 | Artios Awards | Television Pilot And First Season – Drama | Denise Chamian, Liz Ludwitzke, Candice Elzinga, Patti Kalles | Nominated |
Creative Arts Emmy Awards | Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series (One Hour) | James Hawkinson | Nominated | |
Outstanding Original Creative Achievement in Interactive Media within a Scripted Program | "Resistance Radio" | Nominated | ||
Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Period Program (One Hour or More) | Drew Boughton, Dawn Swiderski, Jon Lancaster | Nominated | ||
Outstanding Special Visual Effects | Lawson Deming, Cory Jamieson, Casi Blume, Nick Chamberlain, David Andrade, Bill Parker, Justin Fox, Danielle Malambri | Nominated | ||
Costume Designers Guild Awards | Outstanding Fantasy Television Series | J.R. Hawbaker | Nominated | |
Leo Awards | Best Guest Performance by a Male in a Dramatic Series | Kurt Evans | Nominated | |
Best Supporting Performance by a Female in a Dramatic Series | Chelah Horsdal | Won | ||
Location Managers Guild Awards | Outstanding Locations in a Period TV Series | Nicole Noelle Chartrand, Robert Murdoch | Nominated | |
Saturn Awards | Best New Media Television Series | The Man in the High Castle | Nominated | |
2019 | Satellite Awards | Best Genre Series | The Man in the High Castle | Nominated |
Visual Effects Society Awards | Outstanding Created Environment in an Episode, Commercial, or Real-Time Project | Casi Blume, Michael Eng, Ben McDougal, Sean Myers for "Reichsmarschall Ceremony" | Pending | |
Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Episode, Commercial, or Real-Time Project | Saber Jlassi, Igor Zanic, Nick Chamberlain, Chris Parks for "Statue of Liberty Destruction" |
Advertising controversy
As part of an advertising campaign for the release of the first season, an entire New York City Subway car was covered with Nazi and Imperial Japanese imagery, as seen in the show, including multiple US flags with the Nazi eagle emblem in place of the 50 stars and multiple flags of the fictional Pacific States. In response to criticism from "state lawmakers and city leaders", the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) released a statement saying that there were no grounds to reject the ads because the neutral content subway ad standards prohibit only advertising that is a political advertisement or disparages an individual or group. MTA spokesperson Kevin Ortiz stated, "The MTA is a government agency and can't accept or reject ads based on how we feel about them; we have to follow the standards approved by our board. Please note they're commercial ads." Spokesperson Adam Lisberg said, "This advertising, whether you find it distasteful or not, obviously they're not advertising Nazism; they're advertising a TV show."
After complaints from New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, initial reports indicated that Amazon pulled the advertisement from the subway. It was later announced that it was the MTA, not Amazon, that pulled the ad because of pressure from Cuomo.
See also
- Fatherland, 1994 TV film
- SS-GB, 2017 TV series
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