The Man in the High Castle started with a BANG but is now only the HOLE left from the bullet....
EDITED AND UPDATED - Now that I have watched the fourth and the last season I can say that what I said before was true, real and predicted righteously.
The Man in the High Castle by Amazon Studios and Amazon Studios based on a Philip K. Dick's award-winning novel is a just a show that was great only in the first season because since then till latest, it has only declined and degraded.
When I post my disgruntled thoughts through a review for season 2 and 3, I thought the fourth season will change and make me love the series once again but I should say Amazon did a great job with Scott Free Productions, Headline Pictures, Electric Shepherd Productions, and Big Light Productions to make me hate and loathe it even more.
The reasons are very simple. The story in the first season was kept simple. atmospheric, mystery, tense, political and thriller kind of feel where you were genuinely interested what outcomes will make impact to the story and the characters portraying it. But after that through season 2, 3 and 4, it was dragging and just elongating character threads to keep them alive for things they do that doesn't matter to us or makes us take note. When the season 4 ended, I wasn't looking to anything better because show lost me and my interest and my respect after season 1. The story if we look in context to the novel or to what was adapted to screen as per the needs, is just out of the focus. I mean if you are making a character doing things that will change the course of the story and will bring impact to them and to us as viewers, then you need to keep them real and aimed. But the writers and most importantly, the producers failed at this and just dragged the show to keep it going. I was waiting to see generously to see the end of a character, plot point, story arc and something that doesn't change the course of the essence of the novel on which it was LOOSELY based upon. BUT I WAS WRONG. So as the result, the show is dull, uninteresting and at last, unwanted.
I started watching this back in 2015 when the first season arrived but since then i hadn't got the time to watch the other seasons, so this year this time, i decided to rewatch from starting till the end i.e., 3rd season.
It started with a promising and intriguing premise but as 3rd season ends, it shows very bleak chances of me returning back to other upcoming season.
1ST SEASON - Aimed highly as plot - 8/10
2ND SEASON - Aimed as story and character development 7/10
3RD SEASON - Just dragging things up and adding nonsensical things like nudes, kissing scenes, same sex relationships and plot lines that don't make any sense. 3/10
4TH SEASON - Nothing new, just dragging on with things they created unnecessarily in the previous seasons namely 2 and 3. 3/10
My advise would be just watch season 1 and leave it there before you rate high and then go downwards after going for other seasons.
Amazon and other producers involved need to understand the core aspect of the book and the what the story was actually about instead making us pay for this TV series through money and time by calling it the best whereas for my side, it is now becoming what i felt like years ago for wayward pines and LOST. BAD.
Also, IMDB, should make each season rate-able differently so that if one season is good and others are bad both don't end up in same realm.
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