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The Plot Against America (2020)
Good cast but tediously dull
As alternate histories go, this is not a great success. "Man in the High Castle" is probably best of this ilk. "The Hunters" was fun but ridiculous. "The Plot Against America" had a promising cast, and seems to be a well produced period piece. But after four slow boring episodes, I gave up.
The thesis of the series has problems. It certainly was not the case in 1940 that the Democrats were enlighten and Republicans were bigots. FDR turned away Jewish refugees, put Japanese Americans in concentration camps, denied the benefits of the G.I. Bill to Black Americans. FDR's administration was quite friendly with Mussolini in the 1930s, and the New Deal was often compared to Germany's economic recovery policies. It feels like we are meant to associate the fictional fascism of America in this series with Hollywood's imagined fascism of modern day America.
Vampires (2020)
Stylish but dumb
The series was watchable but not great. The show revolves around Doina, but her character is completely uncompelling, unintelligent and does completely random foolish things. The show is stylish but overall is not a well made TV series.
Hunters (2020)
Cartoonish and in poor taste
I was looking forward to this, but very disappointed, not sure I can even watch it all. Bad acting, bad accents. But mainly I found the cartoonish and outlandish portrayal of the holocaust and the nazis in very poor taste.
October Faction (2020)
cliche, woke, somewhat watchable
It's watchable, but not good. The show has the tiresome cliches of preachy finger wagging at racist white people and homophobic jocks. The writers seem to be imaging a world of 40 or 50 years ago. Otherwise, it's just average monster-hunting, which is far from original and not especially well done in this show.