The worst thing (no, it's all the worst thing actually) is that each episode is a series of cuts from one story line to the next, but it makes no sense because nothing that happens in each story line affects the other. I can't believe some genius thought that these characters were strong enough to each merit their own story line, as if we're really sitting at the edge of our seat while we watch Joe Blake spend SEVEN episodes pouting because his daddy is rich and powerful and wants to hand him the keys to the kingdom. Honestly, who cares what happens to any of them at this point. We watch Joe Blake throw a season long tantrum because of daddy abandonment issues, Juliana trying to blend in in the suburbs by living a banal suburb lifestyle, the Trade Minister who crosses into another dimension and the only thing he's concerned about is stopping his wife from divorcing him, and frank frink who's the only story line with any excitement except there's nothing to like about the character at all, so who cares what happens to him. The only thing I cared about what how they were driving the plot towards the films and the man in the high castle, and that's just gone.

I see that the writers wanted to switch from a plot-driven story to a character-driven story but it doesn't work when your characters are cardboard cutout caricatures because we have nothing invested in them individualy. Not to mention that the story lines have turned to soap opera. The only reason Season One stayed interesting is because as a collective whole, the character's intertwining stories kept the stakes high enough, but these characters aren't strong enough or developed enough to each merit their own story line. All the main characters have been shipped off to the four corners of the world so they have no possibility of ever interacting with one another again, and instead of one main show, we now have many different little, tiny shows that are all independent of each other with no connection whatsoever. The whole plot line of the mysterious films and the man in the high castle himself are just gone. (spoiler 's not) What a steaming pile of crap. It was so bad that for a minute I thought that maybe I was missing the whole point and that this was actually an amazingly clever satire of bad tv. This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.įirst off, the dialogue was so clique and generic, that i spent about half of each episode just finishing the character's sentences.

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