The Man in the High Castle is more Boardwalk Empire than Nazi Mad Men

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http://www.vulture.com/2015/11/man-i...lk-empire.html

The Amazon alt-history series based on the Philip K. Dick novel "delivers something more straightforward and less subtle and thoughtful,” says Matt Zoller Seitz. "It’s not Nazi Mad Men, where faux history is intertwined with the characterizations so that each informs the other, and you can spend hours talking about how, for instance, the middle part of the United States became a sort of Wild West, yet Hollywood continued to make bourgeois movies and turn Rock Hudson, to name one actor name-checked on the show, into a star. What it delivers is something more along the lines of Boardwalk Empire, where the main draw is suspense and bursts of gunfire and torture, undergirded by the low-level dread that comes from not being able to trust most of the characters when they tell you who they are and what side they’re loyal to, and wondering when, not if, the other shoe will drop.”