Season 4 picks up right where Season 3 left off, with Juliana Crain (Alexa Davalos) getting shot by John Smith (Rufus Sewell) as she escapes into the alt-world (ours) in which the Allies won the war. ![]() Unfortunately, those moments punctuate an otherwise troubled story, full of too many characters to service and a weakened confidence in its own central conceit. ![]() Luckily, Season 4 does deliver some great character work that makes the most of the past three seasons’ horror. But despite its mostly successful marriage of thrilling espionage and science-fiction, High Castle has always been at its best when miring itself in the tricky moral soil that a Greater American Reich would be built on. The Man in the High Castle went from being a high-concept show about an America under Nazi rule to being a higher-concept show about alternate worlds and how Nazis would want to put every America under Nazi rule.
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