I just finished watching the last season of The Man in the High Castle series, and it met my expectations. Since I began to watch this show at the end of 2020, all the seasons were already released and there were no mentions of a potential season 5, so it was pretty clear the show was over.
However, at the end of season 3, there were still a lot of problems for the freedom lovers in this fictional dystopic America where the west coast is controlled by the Japanese and the east coast by the Germans. 1 season seemed to be too little time to fix such a complex situation but ending the show might have been the correct choice especially if the number of viewers was going down.
In season 4, Americans are still suffering from a lack of freedom but one of the totalitarians regimes is crumbling, the Japanese. The Germans, on the other hand, are going all-in with their exploration of the alternative realities and have ambitious plans to weaponize this knowledge and technology.
The main factions in this season are the usual ones (Germans, Japanese, and the resistance), with the addition of a new American group of black rebels that will be somewhat important. The alternative reality will be properly explored and I was surprised at the speed at which the nazis were able to master this new type of tech/science. It was as if in one episode they had a prototype of the machine, and suddenly they were already experts at it. This is the part of the story that felt rushed to me.
When it comes to the ending, it was completely conditioned by the existence of multiple realities. Viewers will have a lot of questions about the implication of this link between worlds, but these are left unanswered. I think it makes sense to end the show this way because otherwise, they would have to produce another season that will end up being completely different than the previous 4 and with a lot of trickiness in its writing thanks to the other worlds.
Approaching the existence of multiple realities is a massive task and this show was never that complex, this is not Dark after all. Plus, of the original main characters, there was only 1 left. So it is fair to say their roles in this story was pretty much finished.
Even though some things felt rushed I think the series had a proper ending. All the seasons were more or less equally entertaining and with the same quality overall. This series is a unique mix between the genres of war, drama, and scifi so fans of those genres should really consider watching it.
The best
- The show maintains its general high quality.
The worst
- Some series of events felt rushed.
More information: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1740299/episodes?season=4&ref_=tt_eps_sn_4 Review: AAA In numbers: 8/10
