Imagine a world where the Allies lost World War II, with the US split between the Germans and the Japanese.  This is the world where Philip K. Dick puts us in The Man In The High Castle, where the Germans have taken over the east coast and the Japanese the west, leaving a free state between them in the Rockies.  Dick’s tale focuses primarily on the last two, switching among connected but disparate stories.

I watched the first episode of Amazon’s adaptation of this book and it did not really hold my interest.  The same can be said of the book, which took me forever to read and which I never really was enthralled by.  The concept certainly holds some interest, but the execution left me wanting more.