THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA
OUT NOW (FOXTEL)
EPISODES VIEWED 6 OF 6
SHOWRUNNERS David Simon, Ed Burns
CAST Winona Ryder, Anthony Boyle, Zoe Kazan, Morgan Spector, John Turturro
PLOT In an alt-history ’40s America, celebrity aviator Charles Lindbergh, a xenophobic populist, becomes President by leading the country away from World War II but towards fascism. The ripples of his bigoted world-view play out on the Levins, a Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey.
US TV IS full of alt-timelines these days. Following onand , , adapted from Philip Roth’s 2004 novel by masterminds David Simon and Ed Burns, imagines a future where Charles Lindbergh, American flying ace and Nazi sympathiser, becomes the POTUS. The result isn’t high on dramatic incident and shocking twists, but its six-episode run is completely absorbing, building a tangible sense of mounting anxieties and helplessness among characters in an increasingly rancid country.
