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    Re: If Nazism had prevailed: The Amazon series The Man in the High Castle Archived Message

    Posted by Sinister Burt on April 27, 2020, 5:07 pm, in reply to "If Nazism had prevailed: The Amazon series The Man in the High Castle"

    I quite enjoyed the series (dragged in places) - was a bit disappointed that it diverged from the book so much (ie *spolier* it wasn;'t all somehow a dream inside the i ching or something), but it would have been shorter then.

    There were limitations in how it depicted american nazis, but another new amazon series called 'Hunters' was much worse (in the few episodes i watched) - it's about a jewish gang of nazi hunters (but with a black panther, for coolness i suppose) hunting nazis in 70s america - the opportunity to show the overlap between nazism and american politics/corporate power was totally lost and instead they're all snarling nazi baddies, like zombies from castle wolfenstein (not that i wanted them to be the goodies, y.

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