The Man in the High Castle — Series 3 — Episodes 1 and 2: Now More Than Ever, We Care About You and Imagine Manchuria

8th October, 2018.

You know, I’ve had time off … 

I like time off: PAID time off, that is.

Work, at the moment is complicated: and has given me very few shifts.

Last week … ?   I managed to use up a lot of holiday time, let’s put it that way.

Next week … ?   And this week … ?

Well, I suspect I may have to take some very good advise I’ve had, And start looking at giving either the Citizen’s Advise Bureau or ACAS a call.

Just to see what they can say.

~≈§≈~

At any rate … ?

That amount of time of time off has done one thing … 

Well … a couple of things.

Job-hunt, obviously.

Catching up with a few movies, last week.

This week … ?

Given it’s a new — ish — release?

The third season of Amazon Prime’s The Man in the High Castle.

It’s easy to forget quite how disturbing it could be … 

~≈§≈~

Episode 1 — Now More Than Ever, We Care About You opens with a summarily of the past two seasons.

But opens properly: with a Japanese a-bomb test in Utah.

It sees Juliana Crane (Alexa Davalos) meet an Irish fixer in the Neutral Zone: and get to know Trudi (Conor Lesley), her dead sister, better than she thought she could.

Kido (Joel de la Fuente)?   Is hiring a new sergeant.

And Oberst-Gruppenführer Smith (Rufus Sewell), and his family, mourning The death of his son.

Episode 2 — Imagine Manchuria sees Juliana realise her and Trade Minister Tagomi (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) have closer bonds than she felt.

Whilst Reichsmarschall Rockwell (David Furr) and J. Edgar Hoover (William Forsythe) plot to try and topple the Oberst-Gruppenführer.

Whilst the Oberst-Gruppenführer wife, Helen (Chelah Horsdal) seeks therapy?

Kido and the Trade minister clash: over who, exactly, should be arresting Juliana Crane and Trudi …

~≈§≈~

Now … 

Good … ?

Oh, yes.

Granted The Man in the High Castle will be grifting away from the original Dick novel, I think that these two opening episodes seem to be keeping The sense of dread I found floating through the novel.

Dread … 

Personally?

That’s got me glued again, to a riveting little series.

Frankly?

I’ll be watching more on my next night off …