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[Cosmic Smash]

From creators David Simon and Ed Burns comes The Plot Against America, an alternate American history story of the country's turn to fascism told through the eyes of a working-class Jewish family in New Jersey. Starring Zoe Kazan, Morgan Spector, Winona Ryder, and John Turturro, the limited series premieres on March 16th at 9PM

The Plot Against America - Wikipedia

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[DunDunDunpachi]

So like Man in the High Castle.

Take a drink every time a Trumpism is slipped into the script, I already spotted two in the trailer.

 

[GobbledeeGoo]

How about they do an alternate history show where America ends up communist.

 

[Master Of Illusion]

They were shooting this around Newark the exact same time the Sopranos movie was (basically most of the equipment stayed up for both productions when days overlapped).

 

[spandexmonkey]

The US suffers from such a severe fascism deficit that they have to write fanfiction so people can experience the outrage they crave so badly.

 

[cryptoadam]

Boring.

How about an alternate history where USSR or China became freedom loving democracies. That would be a novel concept.

 

[Gargus]

Again with the Jews. God damn.

 

[plushyp]

I wish David Simon went back to doing something like The Wire again because that was his strong suit.

 

[Big-G]

How about they do an alternate history show where America ends up communist.

I think it would be cool to see a story about another American Civil War. We were close to having it when Trump was elected

 

[Durask]

Boring.

How about an alternate history where USSR or China became freedom loving democracies. That would be a novel concept.

USSR and China are freedom loving democracies and USA is a communist sh*thole with a huge wall on Mexico border similar to the Berlin Wall.

I'd watch that.

LOL what am I saying, there is no way Hollywood will ever make a movie that portrays communists in a negative light.

 

[Hulk_Smash]

Cmon HBO. I thought you were better than this. This looks terrible. They're actually going to try and convince us that America had enough Nazi sympathizers that they could win a Presidential election with in some alternate universe? Pathetic.

I can't believe this is the same company that produced Chernobyl.

 

[Cosmic Smash]

It's based on the 2004 Philip Roth book.

The Plot Against America - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

It is an alternative history in which Franklin D. Roosevelt is defeated in the presidential election of 1940 by Charles Lindbergh. The novel follows the fortunes of the Roth family during the Lindbergh presidency, as antisemitism becomes more accepted in American life and Jewish-American families like the Roths are persecuted on various levels. The narrator and central character in the novel is the young Philip, and the care with which his confusion and terror are rendered makes the novel as much about the mysteries of growing up as about American politics. Roth based his novel on the isolationist ideas espoused by Lindbergh in real life as a spokesman for the America First Committee, and on his own experiences growing up in Newark, New Jersey. The novel depicts the Weequahic section of Newark which includes Weequahic High School from which Roth graduated.

Added to the OP.

 

[GobbledeeGoo]

Boring.

How about an alternate history where USSR or China became freedom loving democracies. That would be a novel concept.

Yeah, something that's actually unique.