The Plot Against America
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We feel their presence in every scene, even if theyre nowhere to be found.
Lindbergh isnt just the Lone Eagle.
One sign at a campaign rally reads, Times are hard.
The end is near.
Vote Roosevelt and have no fear.
Initially, its campaign rallies and groups of Aryan children raising the United States and Nazi flags.
Were slowly introduced to the Levin family in the hour or so before family dinner.
Philip Levin (Azhy Robertson, a.k.a.
Henry inMarriage Story) plays a game with his friends in the street called I Declare War.
But amid these intimate complications, tension escalates both culturally and politically.
What are you looking at?
If the Levins moved to Union, theyd likely be the only Jewish family in the neighborhood.
They would be ignored, like Bess was when she grew up in a similar situation.
They would be in immediate danger.
(Note: this isa real speechLindbergh gave, and Simon and Burns transcribe his words exactly.)
It turns out that heightened political discussions about impending oppressive regimes tend to have a similar tone and language.
Simon and Burns weave the political into the personal with expert ease.
Herman still believes that Walter Winchell and FDR can squash the threat before it gets any bigger.
Still, the final scene packs a punch that foreshadows the deleterious events to come.
The worlds events always trickle down to the smallest neighborhoods.
America is their homeland.
Its all theyve ever known.
But bit by little bit, their safety and security start to collapse.
The episodes final scene devastates in a much quieter register.
He might be verboten in the house, but Lindbergh still radiates mythos and heroism.
If he can be entranced by his image, so can anyone.
I dont even know how they knew.
That you were a Jew?
