The Plot Against America (TV Miniseries)

"[Its] isn’t to overwhelm audience members with suffering, or to shock us into action; instead, its aim is to remind us of our shared humanity and how essential it is for us to be vigilant against hatred of all kinds." 

"Like Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, the show is chilling in the ways that life has begun to imitate its source material’s art (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)" 

"Flawed but finely crafted and chillingly timely" 

"Burns and Simon honor the biographical depth of Roth’s novel even as they update it to our more ambiguously terrorized times" 

"[It] cannot bear uncertainty. That’s a tendency that makes it both a fairly unpleasant watch, and a sacrificed opportunity to depict something smaller, more tender, and more ultimately human than the end of the world." 

"[It] demonstrates that politics is personal and can have life-changing effects on relationships and people’s futures. It’s a cautionary tale on many different levels, but one of the most elemental messages it sends is that nostalgia can be dangerous." 

"[It] looks at what can happen when a society as robust as America falls asleep at the wheel to the dangers of fascism, as seen through the lens of a middle-class Jewish family."