Posted on 11/18/2019 4:48:27 PM PST by LS
I am in the middle of season 2 of The Man in the High Castle.
Yesterday someone posted a warning that season 4 wrapped up horribly.
My question to you fans, is there any entertainment value in the rest of season 2 & 3?
To me it kind of lost its way midway through season two. I lost interest. I don’t even know if I bothered with 3.
I watched seasons 1 and 2 in their entirety and liked them. I’ve not watched season 3 or any of season 4. Why, lethargy mostly.
The show could have ended with the last episode of season 3 in my opinion.
I watched season 1, and got halfway through 2, before it got too boring and stupid for me.
YMMV
(loved the book though!)
I stopped watching somewhere in season 2. I really enjoyed the novel when I read it 20+ years ago.
Season 3 and 4 are pozzed. PC-itis kicks in.
1/2 through season 4. I like it well enough when I’m riding my indoor bicycle trainer. I can tolerate Juliana Crane as a semi-believable heroine. I fear PCitis might be coming, s others have suggested. Books by Phillip Dick are great reads.
Finish 2. Watch the rest if you have nothing better to do. It does get hard to ignore the PC parade in the characters though.
It got so slow and boring that we never made it through Season 2.
Sure.
It’s an alternative history scenario.
Watch to see how it plays out. No direction is really any less plausible than whatever the “good” one is supposed to be.
end it at season 2.
Season 3 wasn’t horrible but season 4, which we suffered through to the bitter end, turned out to be a waste of time. No spoiler though if you want to watch.
Does the series vary much from the book?
Like others I enjoyed seasons 1 & 2... I might have even watched season 3, I’d have to go back and look.
It is fun for early ‘Boomers simply because they did a good job of recapturing the look of the 50s.
It’s all good except the very end of 4 is perplexing.
I read that it switched to complete social justice crap
Watch “Enemy at the Door” instead. That is a series based upon the German occupation of the Channel Islands during WWII.
Loved seasons 1-3 and will judge season 4 for myself rather than let somebody else’s opinion ruin it. I may hate it, but at least I’ll be the judge.
I am watching 4 now. It is OK.
About halfway through season 4, and I guess I am so used to the social justice messages in TV and movies that it didn’t really bug me that much. Nazis have always been bad guys, and Japanese are generally portrayed as being pure evil or pure spiritual. So, nothing really unusual there. I generally disregard the political messages and try to enjoy the sci-fi elements. To me, John Smith has always been the most interesting character and the star of the show.
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