In case you've missed it, Amazon is making a TV series out of Philip K. Dick's Hugo-winning novel The Man in the High Castle. And it's bloody amazing.
The premise is that the US lost WW2 and was carved up into occupation zones, Germany getting everything east of the Rockies, Japan getting the West Coast, and the Rocky Mountains themselves being a semi-lawless neutral zone. It's now 1962, and naturally there's a resistance movement. And there's this fascinating newsreel that implies that everything may not be exactly as it seems.
The cool part is how real this world is made to look and feel. To be honest, I was hooked before the opening credits were over.
Oh, and did I mention that Ridley Scott is executive producer?
So far only the pilot episode is out, and this being Amazon, only a few of their "pilot season" series will get picked up. But just about every review I've read has said that this is by far the best of Amazon's new pilots and is likely to get a full season. So check it out - it's worth your time.
