The Plot Against America (TV Mini Series) Part 3 (2020) User Reviews

Series gaining moment (but horrible accents)

[leveverage · 7/10 · 30 December 2020]

I am giving this series a shot because I enjoyed The Wire so much, but I found the first two episodes a little slow. In this episode, with the Canadian element, I felt like I was finally watching something which wasn't predictable (to me the basic problem with the series is that the "imagine America had turned out like this" has been done to death, so the context, in my opinion, doesn't need as much setting up).

However, as other reviewers have noted, the English accents are a distraction for British viewers. Not Dick Van Dyke crazy, but the kind of performance which sounds off and unnatural from the first sentence. Odd considering Simon used two Britons in starring roles in the Wire, that he couldn't find a couple more.

admirable

[Kirpianuscus · 6 April 2020]

The gift of this episode is a challenge - to imagine yourself as part of story. Because, in many senses, the if of the first episodes becomes the cold reality, familiar for viewer from history lessons and for part of public, like me, from living past of Communist period. Great acting, impecable storytelling. So, in profound sense, admirable craft.

Basic Error

[djhowes · 6/10 · 14 August 2020]

'And where did you learn to read an electrical schematic?' 'The University of Warwick'. So in a fictional 1942 they have someone studying at a university that didn't even exist for over another 20 years!

Terrible False British Accents.

[attuross · 5/10 · 16 July 2020]

What is an otherwise very good series, the fake and hopeless British accents make the scenes set in England a laughingstock. Surely the Producers could have found a few English actors in America for these minor roles, if the budget didn't allow for a couple return air flights from the U.K.