![]() Just as The Wire depicted the effect of failing institutions – the police, the government, the schools, the media – on individual lives in Baltimore, over six episodes The Plot Against America shows how fascism doesn’t have to arrive with jackbooted invaders. On The Corner, The Wire and Generation Kill, their work has tended to the granular and realistic rather than broad-sweeping fantasy. The writers have never taken on a historic novel before. It’s not that it couldn’t happen here it already is happening.ĭavid Simon and Ed Burns might not have been the obvious choices to adapt Philip Roth’s 2004 novel, set in an alternate-reality America where the aviator Charles Lindbergh (played here by Ben Coles) beats Roosevelt and becomes president on a pro-fascist, anti-war ticket. ![]() Round a corner the Levins see a group of American fascists drinking in a German bar. It’s 1940, and across the Atlantic, France has capitulated to the Germans, who have started bombing the UK. ![]() ![]() ![]() Near the start of The Plot Against America (Sky Atlantic), Herman Levin (Morgan Spector) is driving his wife Bess ( Zoe Kazan) and their children through a neighbourhood in New Jersey. ![]()
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