Plot Against America is the most urgent series of 2020

The second episode of HBO's new historical works The Struggle Against America ends with an incident that sounds like an equalizer for the 2016 American election. It begins as a light-hearted meeting, with Levin's family and close friend sitting in the living room while the results come in the 1940 presidential election. Liberated political activist Hermanan Levin (Morgan Spector) has for months been critical of how President Franklin Delano Roosevelt will destroy his Republican opponent, Charles Lindbergh (Ben Cole), because FDR is an active strategist and Lindbergh is a Nazi political outsider. . Herman expects to stay with his family and watch his confirmed rolls.

In Herman's eyes, FDR does not take this race for granted. Herman understands that he lives in an explosive neighborhood in the Jewish community of Newark, New Jersey. While almost everyone knows that he is a sincere Democrat, he has heard some people are drawn to Lindbergh because they are not satisfied with the unequal access to the American economy from the Great Depression, and they find Lindbergh's "America America" a laugh in the first place. But political facts don’t really set in until the night begins. Herman's children fall asleep as reports begin to suggest Roosevelt's shortcomings, but the race is much closer. In the end, Herman is left alone with the shocking realization that America is not what it thought it was.

Based on the 2004 novel The Struggle Against America is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize Philip Roth, a new HBO series is set in a world where Lindbergh, a popular and anti-Semite pilot, runs a crowdfunding campaign against Roosevelt, based on a promise to get America out of World War II. While this story is clearly similar to the adaptability of Amazon's Philip K. Dick & # 39; s 1962 The Man in the Upper Palace

, imagining what would happen to America if the Allies Powers lost the war, Roth's work is more violent, a telling story that addresses our dark political era and the weakness of American ideals.

Morgan Spector, dressed in a brown suit and tan hat, stands behind the open side door of a vintage car, hands clasped in an open window, in a scene from Plot Against America.

Created by David Simon and Ed Burns, the team behind it Cord, The Struggle Against America the best adaptation of Roth's career is in the Amazon series, which extended Dick's novel into four seasons by adding dozens of new characters and stories driven by science fiction. The Man in the Upper Palace and are primarily smuggled into the intentions of an aristocratic heart, which is driven by the action of the genre used in Tma of the Servant and Hunters. All three express their critical criticism by telling the good news of the indestructible deeds and the brave warriors.

Simon and Burns instead remained faithful to Roth's focus on the lives of a single, ordinary family, keeping the results of Lindbergh's election completely grounded. The Leonins are first shown sitting down at a Shabbat dinner, ending the ancient traditions involved in a family holiday meal, and then introducing them to a discussion about baseball. It is a true look at the American Jewish experience, showing a group that sees themselves completely connected with the fabric of their country, until some people begin to accuse them of being unfaithful. Here, Lindbergh accuses the Jews of not burning up wanting to drag the U.S. into c onflict to protect their European brothers, but feels too close President Trump says

American Jews truly owe the Prime Minister of Israel.

While The Man in the Upper Palace showed Washington, D.C., being misled, and everyone with a terminal illness was killed in the name of eugenics, The Struggle Against America manages to present a formidable idea of how the United States could begin to implement such generic threats. Simon and Burns did an excellent job of resolving the differences by using sites with strong American and recent similarities. While the show focuses on Jewish experiences, Herman's encounter with the police also raises questions about which American laws really apply, the kinds of questions asked by the Black Lives Matter movement. Other times it reminds us of massacres by human rights figures, too A mass shooting of 2018 at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.

In an incident from The Plot Against America, which was created in 1940, a man and woman who worked face to face in their living room, especially in their living room with cameras, and their two sons looked worried in bed.

The Republican establishment runs into Lindbergh with his anti-Semitic speech, but it does nothing to stop him. He underlines criticism for securing the confirmation of Southern Conservative rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf (John Turturro of Do the Right Thing and Crossing Miller). Lindbergh is the smallest name in the works; Turturro does a lot of heavy lifting as the main villain. When criticizing free Jews, living in cities as unwilling to engage in the “real America” found in the Middle East, and promising to teach the president about “Jewish things,” it is hard to say how much he believes. his method of composing, or what he intends to compromise in the name of power. Watching his deception as Lindbergh fails to speak out against escalating Islamic extremism and violence sounds like a joke. the reaction of Trump's Jewish advisers after his neo-Nazi reaction to Charlottesville, Virginia.

Zoe Kazan of The Big Sick she brings a surprise performance as Herman's wife, Elizabeth, a curator with a different reaction to her family at events and her rising sense of dread. Herman is still stubborn, as his friends and neighbors flee to Canada, his young son Philip (Azhy Robertson) begins to have bad dreams, and his teenage son Sandy (Caleb Malis) buys everything Rabbi Bengelsdorf & # 39; s rhetoric. Watching Elizabeth's subtle exterior come furious, but it becomes even brighter in scenes where she faces problems by showing a cool confidence while calming her fears.

In that case The Struggle Against America it's such a close-knit story, it's a shame that most of the characters still feel small. Winona Ryder never brings her depth to the portrayal of Elizabeth's sister Evelyn Finkel, who thinks she has finally found a way to shine in her love affair with Bengelsdorf. Evelyn spends most of her eye-watering labor and views many pipes as a one-note game. Herman expresses a similar lack of self-image as he puts his family in increasingly dangerous situations while acting as an invincible defender of his own ideas of what America should be.

John Turturro, dressed in a black suit and carrying a sack, stands on the podium to the left of the dark room, while the appropriate men sit behind him to the right, along with a list of brown men holding large American flags behind them.

Philip brings dance to the story as a shy, sensitive kid who escapes growing tensions by hanging out with his beloved friends, but sites involving Herman's hot-tempered niece Alvin (Anthony Boyle) often feel disconnected from the narrative and tone of the book. the whole series.

Threats are subtle and very subtle inside The Struggle Against America rather they don't The Man in the Upper Palace, but works of anti-beauty also feel authentic. Simon and Burns create doubts throughout the series by keeping viewers guessing at the time of the natural encounter. Stopping at a gas station to use the bathroom may involve meeting a member of the Ku Klux Klan, but knocking late at your door can be a new neighbor coming up with a cake. When a restaurant customer confronts Herman with anti-Semitic remarks, the restaurant owner jumps in to correct the situation, offering Levin's children a free ice cream as an apology. Man's hatred and determination are manifest not in world-shaking events, but in brief, powerful moments.

The Struggle Against America shows that the biggest threat to American democracy is neglect. Our objectives do not need to be miraculously destroyed by foreign forces; they can be released slowly inside. There is no need for evil to strike America – it has always been here, and to prevent it from spreading requires constant vigilance.

The six parts miniseries The Struggle Against America premieres on HBO on March 16.