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.
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.
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.
Following the plot is hard work but I’m on Ep 7 of S4 so I’m going to stick it out.
I stick by my comment that the last half of season 4 is a PC, black communist party wet dream. The ending for the Japanese occupation is so ridiculous that not even a LSD induced crazed PKD would have been capable of such hallucinations. The ending in the Reich is a non ending (I would assume there’ll be some kind of sequel). I’m a big PKD fan and really enjoyed seasons 1-3 but the last half of season 4 pretty much ruined it for me.
The series becomes a grindingly emotionally tough to follow-— kind of looking for a plot line (not in the books this way at all, in spite of Philip K. Dick’s personal lunacy and drug abuse and a lot else)
First two parts told a story and quest and the “neutral zone” concept that is Colorado. Politically it would NEVER have happened that Japan and Germany would divide up the US— no, they would have continued the fighting— because that is who they were— constant militarists and expansionists.
The characters are not well filled out— they seem cardboard, or even “stereotypical”. Overall, a very depressing series— makes one glad the history turned out the way it did, and for all the right reasons— America’s greatness and worldwide teamwork.