Reddit reviews The Man In the High Castle - Season 1

This screenshot is from the Amazon show "The Man in the High Castle" and depicts the 1962 version of what the Nazis have accomplished in SST. The show itself is an alternate history with the Nazi and Imperial Japanese forces winning WWII.

If Spotnitz is working on it, that's good enough for me. If you haven't seen the pilot for Man In The High Castle, do it now.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Man-High-Castle-HD/dp/B00RSGIVVO

Amazon's gotten into the tv business by filming original series. They've recently put up several pilot episodes for people to watch and then vote on whether they should be picked up for a whole series. If they are picked up for a series, then Amazon will produce it and release it through their streaming service.

They've done this already with a couple of shows.

I quite enjoyed the pilot of Man in the High Castle. I thought the world was believable and the effects were very well done. Some people seem to really hate it, but I think they're a definite minority.

You can watch the episode here, even if you don't have a Prime subscription.

Can confirm, I can watch the free first episode of The Man in the High Castle at Amazon US in Finland without Prime, without U.S. billing address. After signing up for Prime I was able to watch the other episodes, too.

However, looks like the Amazon US billing / signup system won't let you get the Video-only Prime ($8.99/mo) without a U.S. billing address: http://i.imgur.com/ivp9xy6.png

When signing up for a full Prime ($10.99/mo or $99/y), one still gets a warning that Prime Video will not be available, though with those it actually lets the user continue the signup: http://i.imgur.com/x6ENIRY.png

edit: The Watch Abroad help page seems to suggest this is for U.S. customers who travel abroad, though, so I'm not 100% sure this is intended to work like this. But maybe they will launch it officially as a worldwide service soon...

edit 2: Amazon Germany and Amazon UK Prime sign-up pages (Germany, UK) allowed me to sign up for the Video-only monthly plan as well, unlike the US sign-up page. Similarly, I tested The Man in the High Castle and it was viewable.

Here's a direct offical link where you can watch the pilot and judge it for yourself. I found it quite enjoyable.

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Started watching and hoped for the best, but man it's good. It's not quite as good as Fargo (yet), but it has potential.

The speculation that the interest in alternate universe coincides with the Amazon TV Show based on PKDicks's Man in the high castle as lefties tend to like scifi, and have Amazon services.

Oddly enough from another 'friend' I also got the alternate universe spiel. It really is a thing.

Don't be disappointed, it came out today and turned out great. Joe Blake IS a book character, just the last name has been changed. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00RSGIVVO/

Yeah, it turns out my TV had it right up front, rather than the standard version. I wanted to add it to my watchlist from the computer, but since it was featured it didn't matter much. In fact, being on a HDR capable set had everything from Amazon defaulting to the UHD bannered versions. In case you haven't tried fighting this yourself though, observe:

https://www.amazon.com/Man-High-Castle-Season/dp/B00RSGIVVO
vs
https://www.amazon.com/Man-High-Castle-Season-Ultra/dp/B00RZYUJN2

It makes it annoying to do list manipulation on something with a keyboard, but technically doable since the apps know what you can do and pick for you.

Anyway, yes, this show does look amazing in the full HDR glory.

Daredevil was amazingly well done for a superhero show on Netflix. Also, "Man in the High Castle" is an interesting series about if the Axis powers had won WWII. It's based on Phillip K. Dick's novel of the same name.