The Man In the High Castle

Imaginary Worlds

Eric Molinsky

Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Science Fiction

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The Amazon series The Man in the High Castle is based on a 1962 novel by Philip K. Dick, which imagines what would've happened to America if the Axis Powers won World War II. In this scenario, Nazi Germany imposes their ideology on the East Coast and the Midwest, while Japan rules the West Coast through cultural imperialism. The storytelling from director and executive producer Dan Percival is top notch, but the production design from Drew Boughton also takes center stage -- all posing the same disturbing question. How much would we resist fascism? Season 2 begins on December 16th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Imaginary Worlds, a show about how we create them and why we suspend
0:05.6	our disbelief.
0:06.6	I'm Eric Mullinsky.
0:09.6	If you're a long time listener to this podcast, you probably know two facts about me, which
0:13.0	I mentioned from time to time.
0:14.8	I'm Jewish and I grew up in Boston.
0:17.2	I don't usually talk about those two things at the same time, but growing up Jewish in
0:22.0	Boston was interesting.
0:23.6	In my grandparents, my aunts, my uncles had huge civic pride in the neighborhoods that
0:28.9	they lived, Quincy and Brookline.
0:31.8	But there's also this constant low-level anxiety.
0:35.5	Are we really welcome?
0:37.5	Could it ever happen here?
0:40.5	And we all knew what it was.
0:43.2	It would probably sound something like this scene from the Amazon series, The Man in the
0:48.9	High Castle.
0:50.9	I was back east at the end of the war.
0:53.1	In Boston.
0:54.1	Jesus.
0:55.1	Yeah.
0:56.1	You have to say to believe it, friend.
0:59.2	Over night, Lynch Mobs was murdering Jews, because suddenly we were less than human.
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