An aging Adolf Hitler appears on the evening news. A digital swastika hovers high above Times Square. A San Francisco dais flies Japan's imperial flag. Amazon's latest original series, "The Man in the High Castle," traffics in both the commonplace and the strange, the recognizable and the inconceivable, fashioning a fictional universe that seems all too real. Set in a world in which the Axis defeated the Allies in World War II, you might even call its engrossing alternate history of the mid-twentieth century a form of counter-cinema: "The Man in the High Castle" develops pictures from a revolution that never happened, familiar icons from an imagined past. Read More: "Trash, 'The Art of More,' and Peak TV" Developed by Frank Spotniz ("The X-Files") from Philip K. Dick's 1962 novel, the series is, in essence, a run-of-the-mill spy drama, following New Yorker Joe Blake (Luke Kleintank) and San Franciscan Juliana Crain (Alexa.
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