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 …
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