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The Plot Against America (TV Miniseries)

The Plot Against America

2020

David Simon (Creator), Ed Burns (Creator) ...

Morgan Spector, Zoe Kazan, Winona Ryder, John Turturro ...

7.0

4,279

TV Series. Drama TV Miniseries (2020). 6 Episodes. In 1940 Charles A. Lindbergh, heroic aviator and rabid isolationist, is elected President. Shortly thereafter, he negotiates a cordial "understanding" with Adolf Hitler, while the new government embarks on a program of folksy anti-Semitism. For one boy growing up in Newark, Lindbergh's election is the first in a series of ruptures that threatens to destroy his small, safe corner of America - and with ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Arielle Bernstein AV Club	"[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."	POS
United States	Alan Sepinwall Rolling Stone	"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)"	POS
United States	Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter	"Flawed but finely crafted and chillingly timely"	NEU
United States	Darren Franich Entertainment Weekly	"Burns and Simon honor the biographical depth of Roth’s novel even as they update it to our more ambiguously terrorized times"	POS
United States	Daniel D'Addario Variety	"[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."	NEG
United States	Jen Chaney Vulture	"[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."	POS
United States	Merrill Barr The Daily Dot	"[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."	POS
United States	Michael Starr New York Post	"[It] isn’t nearly as boring as 'The Man in the High Castle.' While it takes a while to get going it eventually lays the foundation for a narrative that isn’t too far-fetched"	NEU
United States	Andrew Bundy The Playlist	"What Simon and Burns expertly capture is the slow faint creep of fascism and the sinister way it suddenly seems to engulf our lives."	POS
United States	Meghan O'Keefe Decider	"[It] is upsetting, beautiful, and ultimately must-watch television. It is, without a doubt, this year’s 'Chernobyl'."	POS
United States	Chuck Bowen Slant	"The series feels ordinary, so of a piece with other politically engaged prestige television (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Joel Keller Decider	"Despite moving a little slowly, 'The Plot Against America' parallels to today’s political and ideological landscape make us want to keep watching."	POS

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