https://www.hbo.com/hbo-news/the-plot-against-america-david-simon
We also have the cast list on IMDb as well as on set photos... Thoughts and opinions?
We also have the cast list on IMDb as well as on set photos... Thoughts and opinions?
I guarantee you someone in this is gonna say something along the lines of "Make America Great Again".Seems rather ho-hum and rather predictable.
I guarantee you someone in this is gonna say something along the lines of "Make America Great Again".
And yet large number still shout "Jews will not replace us", maybe entertainment need more obvious and more " in the face" about "Nazi is bad" lesson. Some anvil need to be dropped, continuously.And at the end of the final episode an announcer will proclaim, "...And remember folks, a vote for Elizabeth Warren is a vote against fascism!" - I don't mind people using art to express their political views, but there comes a point when it is no loner entertaining, and it just turns into a shrill lecture. Yeah I got it already, orange man bad, but can we please get back to some quality thought provoking entertainment?
And at the end of the final episode an announcer will proclaim, "...And remember folks, a vote for Elizabeth Warren is a vote against fascism!" - I don't mind people using art to express their political views, but there comes a point when it is no loner entertaining, and it just turns into a shrill lecture. Yeah I got it already, orange man bad, but can we please get back to some quality thought provoking entertainment?
I guarantee you someone in this is gonna say something along the lines of "Make America Great Again".
And at the end of the final episode an announcer will proclaim, "...And remember folks, a vote for Elizabeth Warren is a vote against fascism!" - I don't mind people using art to express their political views, but there comes a point when it is no loner entertaining, and it just turns into a shrill lecture. Yeah I got it already, orange man bad, but can we please get back to some quality thought provoking entertainment?
Though that argument depends on the property in question having nothing going for it besides the lecture. If it’s entertaining and well-acted as well as that, I can stand being lectured.
Like: I rolled my eyes when the villain in Black Lightning said ‘Let’s make America great again’, because it had all the subtlety of an anvil. But I didn’t mind when something similar was done in Legends of Tomorrow - because there it was funny (Gorilla Grodd tries to assassinate Obama while he’s still a college student, and beforehand says ‘It’s time to make America Grodd again’ ) as well as being political.
TL; DR - that stuff gets annoying after a while when it’s all the show or whatever has to lean on or when the message is just there, with no frills, even if it’s a message you agree with. But if the show’s entertaining besides that, and presents the message in a good and not too anvilicious way? Then we good.
Aw, that's disappointing. I was even considering finding the book and read it.
I was hoping there wouldn't be any SJW themes/ Wokeness involved in the show.
They pretty much did a little bit of that in TMITHC, especially during season 4.
I used to be ecstatic about shows/movies being adapted, but now it's almost expected for them to be politicized, regardless of necessity.
The book was more a reaction on 9-11, the consequential changing attitude towards muslims in parts of the population and mostly on the possible consequences of the patriot act. As it was published in 2004 i consider this book pre-woke. When it came out it wasn't really considered hip. I read it and i personally would give it a 7.5 out of 10. For a one time trip to alternate history the writter didn't do a bad job. The timeline is the weakness, but how he translates it to ordinary lives is very good.Aw, that's disappointing. I was even considering finding the book and read it.
I was hoping there wouldn't be any SJW themes/ Wokeness involved in the show.
In that sense, it's easier to read the book as just one kid's nightmare of being thrust from childhood into the problems of the adult world than it is to read it as any kind of actual alternate history, so that snapping back is appropriate for waking from a nightmare.As for the novel, I remember reading it when it came out and was a bit underwhelmed. Especially with how the timeline snapped back into the real world at the end.
My main worries about the show in a nutshell. I fear it's going to spend more time drawing comparisons to today's world than it will telling a good story.
Hopefully, it'll get rid of the book's ending, where Roosevelt comes to power after Lindbergh disappears and everything just goes back to normal, as if someone hit the reset budding.
The only problem is, how do you make a show about a anti-Semitic President go on for more than one season, without resorting to the 'Holocaust in America' cliché?
I know in the book, as a result of Lindbergh's conservative government, there's a uptick in anti-Semitism, but I highly doubt Americans would stomach anything like the Holocaust (concentration camps and all) happening on American soil. I've heard arguments that IRL concentration camp guards could've easily passed a psychological exam for the US Army or the Kansas City Police, but still, I would be very interested in how Lindbergh's government will turn from 'I want America to return to it's core values' to 'I want the Jews either exterminated or separated from the rest of the population'.
Yeah, but that's not really a 'Holocaust'. Sounds more like what Canada and Australia did to their Aboriginal children. It's a cultural genocide, certainly, but it's not the Holocaust we're talking about.