Kindness

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1. Anonymous says :

   November 14, 2019 at 6:12 pm

   19 of 19 people found the following review helpful

   
   and I’m not easily convinced by the quality of some American films, 5 Jan. 2017

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   David Roberts

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   This review is from: The Man in the High Castle – Season 1 (Prime Video)

   Guess I’m a bit late at signing up to Amazon Prime, but The Man in the High Castle – Season 1, makes it worth every penny.

   Looking forward now to watching Season 2, which will be very soon.

   I’m a WWII history buff, so it’s always going to be difficult to grip me with fiction, and I’m not easily convinced by the quality of some American films, those I like have to stand out and this genuinely does. From watching the first episode I’ve been addicted… watching the the first eight in succession. The actors and the production make it feel real… faultless.

   Well done Amazon, I only signed up so I could watch ‘The Grand Tour’. Now you’ve probably got me hooked. Keep up the high standards!!!

   Just a quick addition.
   I did watch season II and it was if anything – even better than season 1. That is a rare thing. Just wanted to add this… don’t have time right now to write a proper review – later maybe.
2. Anonymous says :

   November 14, 2019 at 6:40 pm

   6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

   
   Good but not without flaws., 29 Dec. 2016

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   Paul Campbell (newton)

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   This review is from: The Man in the High Castle – Season 1 (Prime Video)

   This is an intriguing show with a great concept and loads of twists. the show is very enjoyable, particularly the chilling idea of the Nazis running the east coast, and their interplay with each other, which was always based on survival of the fittest and one-upmanship for Hitler’s attention. In that Rufus Sewell is excellent as the benignly named family man Nazi John Smith who is always one step ahead of his rivals. The American flag with the swastika on it, always sends a chill down me every time. For some reason more than the Japanese running the west coast. Not sure why. Perhaps because I am British its more akin to what would have happened to us, but one gripe is there is nothing much said about other countries such as Britain discussed. It’s not even clear what happens to Canada which has similar borders to the US. Was that partitioned like America? This is always the way with American shows that deal with global issues. The show ends in the good old fashioned tradition of a cliff hanger, which makes binge watching almost inevitable, if only to see what happens next.
   However, I’ve read a couple of negative reviews and I get where they are coming from. Part of the problem are the plot twists and cliff hangers, which in some ways are unsustainable in a show over twenty hours.
   One of the main gripes seems to be some of the coincidences that allow the plot to go the way the director wants it to go, are quite frankly implausible. From things like very lacklustre security to allow would be assassins and detainees, to come and go as they please, or push a door and be out into the streets free, to crucial information you would imagine characters would share immediately with each other, that for one reason (plot drivers for later reason) they don’t, and characters who due to their actions in any real world would have been killed several times over by both sides allowed to go free with no one really keeping tabs on what happened before. For some, this is clearly too much for some to suspend the disbelieve and they don’t like it for that reason, however, I am hoping that the concept of the show will reveal that this was all part of the narrative and will be reconciled at the end. If not the show is still good, but will probably end in the manner lost did, with more questions than answers, the journey being more fulfilling than the destination. However, if you don’t mind suspending your believe a little, you might just enjoy that journey and who knows, the answer might be more fulfilling in the end.
3. Anonymous says :

   November 14, 2019 at 7:11 pm

   5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

   
   Well done Amazon, the director, writers and cast, 11 Jan. 2016

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   Ben Griam (Sutherland, Scotland)

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   This review is from: The Man in the High Castle – Season 1 (Prime Video)

   Philip K. Dick remains one of my absolute favourite writers 40 plus years after first discovering his work. I imagine there are plenty of his fans who will take great exception to the enormous differences between the novel of The Man in the High Castle and this treatment- but not me. I think it is brilliant, and I just had a horrible moment when I realised that I do not after all still have one episode to watch! AAArgh. Philip K. Dick has not fared well in the filming of his works, but this is to me up there with Blade Runner- very different to the book but retaining its core, its spirit. Changing the mysterious book ‘The Grasshopper Lies Heavy’, into a series of strange films works very well for the medium. Dick’s books are actually quite short- not the double-brick size of most SF novels now, and filming them means that stories have to be fleshed out and characters developed. I think the makers of this work have done a tremendous job. The whole thing looks amazing and is very convincing, and the acting of a high quality. I just purchased a new copy of the book and am rereading it. I will wait in real anticipation for the next series, or may just have to enter another dimension where it is already available.