This review makes reference to The Man in the High Castle Season 3, and contains some spoilers.

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Year: 2018
Category: Alternate History, Dystopian, Science Fiction, Thriller, Drama.
Director: Daniel Percival, Alex Zakrzewski, Ernest Dickerson, John Fawcett, Meera Menon, Steph Green, Jennifer Getzinger, Deborah Chow.
Cast: Luke Kleintank, Arnold Chun, Alexa Davalos, Bernhard Forcher, Joel de la Fuente, Rupert Evans, Lee Shorten, Mayumi Yoshida, Steve Byers, Daisuke Tsuji, Aaron Blakely, Rufus Sewell, DJ Qualls, Michael Gaston, Yuki Matsuzaki, Chelah Horsdal, Tao Okamoto, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

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Plot

Juliana discovers a very dangerous Nazi plan, so she must join forces with others to prevent the Nazis from succeeding. Smith discovers that his family is still in danger, and the America history will be erased.

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Opinion

When I finished watching the second season, in some very exciting episodes, in the review I did about it I said that the writers were abusing the narrative resources to surprise the audience, but that the narrative coherence was being compromised, and at that moment some questions were left unanswered, is Frank Frink dead? How is it possible that Trudy is alive?

The first question is answered after a couple episodes, Frank Frink is still alive, how? there is no explanation, only a few burns that try to justify his survival. After all the writers decided not to kill Frank, then I said, ok, sure this character has something important to do this season, but I was wrong, basically they let Frank live, something not very credible, just to kill him at the end of the season, that is, reusing the resource of his death, however, I must say that the scene of his death was worth it, it was just great to see Chief Inspector Kido, another character who survived in a dubious way, put on his uniform and cut off Frank's head, maybe that was the best of the season. If you had a special affection for Frank, I'm sorry friends, but that scene was very powerful.

Regarding the second question, Trudy returns because evidently she is an alternative version that has the same power as the Trade Minister Nobusuke Tagomi, which allows her to travel to other universes, or as its revealed to us later by The Man in the High Castle, to all those universes where she has died. However, even though they tell us that Trudy came to this universe to see Juliana, her participation in the season is so irrelevant that her appearance conveys to me the feeling that the real goal was to create a great cliffhanger at the end of the last season and, in a very convenient way for the plot, cause Chief Inspector Kido to believe in alternative universes.

This disgusts me, because the writers use the characters to develop the plot causing them to act in a certain way without having enough motivation to act in that way. For example, when Juliana and Wyatt Price, a new character, decide to enter the Reich by bribing a Nazi officer, and they discover that Juliana's identification is falsified, the Nazi officer decides to shoot his own soldiers, and then he dies, allowing Juliana and Wyatt go to Nazi territory. In this way the writers generate some tension and allow the characters to follow their path, however, narratively this does not make sense. Why did that officer do something like that? we will never know because conveniently he died.

This leads directly to another point. Is it consistent that Nicole Dörmer goes to New York? last season she asked Joe to stay with her in Germany, and now she goes to America as part of a writers strategy to keep the character in the series even without strong motives, not to mention her irrelevant plot with the journalist that covers important minutes. The same happens with the Ed McCarthy and Robert Childan plot, which is totally irrelevant, these characters, like Mark Sampson, by the way, where is his family?, in the previous seasons were secondary elements, and that in themselves had no weight in the script, give them more minutes and prominence I think it is a mistake of the directors and writers.

I sincerely believe that this season has not been as good as the previous ones, it still has very good moments, like the death of Frank, the last scene between Juliana and the now Reichsmarschall John Smith, the moment in the Nazi church in which the John daughter stands up and makes the characteristic Nazi salute in her brother honor, was so powerful that moment that I think that even the real Nazis could have made a propaganda of themselves so good, however, the general narrative has lost brightness. At certain times I feel that what I see is not completely coherent, which can be a problem of the script directly or of the development, I do not know whether to blame the director or the scriptwriter for this, and unlike the last two seasons in this I could not see two episodes consecutively.

For now I will only wait for the last season to be available, because I think this show can raise the level, maybe this season was not so good because they have used it to establish the narrative basis for an excellent season four. I'll have to wait, for now, although I'm a little disappointed with the course that history has taken I still think it's a good series.

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