watching "The Man in the High Castle," derived from a book by Phillip K. Dick. It's actually a full season ten-episode series on Amazon originals, that has been renewed for another season I think... The story starts in 1962, after Japan and Germany ended up winning WWII and splitting ownership of the US (with a central region that is a neutral zone).
It's steady-paced but really damned good, once I got about 30 minutes into it. Good acting, good episode directing, good look and feel. Intriguing. Frank Spotnitz, who worked a lot on X-Files twenty years ago, is overseeing the project. there's essentially a cold war going on between Japan and Germany, while meanwhile Hitler (who I haven't yet seen in person six episodes in) has ailing health and there is a fear that whoever takes over for him will bomb the shit out of the Japanese when he comes into power since Germany is far ahead in the tech race.
The Resistance for some reason is delivering propaganda films to "The Man in the High Castle" -- and these films are odd because they seem to be footage from a world where the United States helped win the war and remains free and independent -- but it's not clear why if this Man is the one who has MADE the films, then why is he asking for them back?
(I actually have a suspicion about who this man would be, after watching some episodes; but it's a helluva twist if I'm right.)
Anyway, a few characters end up getting dragged into the Resistance (and then things that happen to them and their family inspire them to continue), and there are other main characters who are either high up in the German Reich, or working as double agents, or secret Jews, and so forth... Lots of layers of what is going on, and some of the episodes are especially well done, with some thematic parallels built into the way the episode is designed and edited. One of the better series I've seen, so far.
