If you're not familiar with it, The Plot Against America is an alternative history where Charles Lindbergh is president instead of Roosevelt's third term and keeps the US out of WW2. It's worth watching if you can download/stream it, so maybe do that first if you don't want spoilers

spoilers from here on out

They make a lot of interesting choices that I'm curious how possible/popular they would have actually been. Like, I know there was pro-nazi sentiment but I thought it was pretty quickly soured the moment they invaded uhh poland right? 'cause nobody cared about the czech invasion right? idk I forget this stuff.

Also, it's kinda interesting seeing how the anti-communist stuff would have played into supporting a war effort; the US was obviously rabidly anti-communist ever since daddy marx invented it I guess right? but it does get especially weird when you think about pro-nazi sentiment being popular enough to also play into it.

And last; in the last scene, what do you think they are saying with the election tampering stuff? Who was it in favor of?

  • AliceBToklas [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    I just got back from a little driving trip to see my sister and her new baby and had a bunch of time to listen to the podcast and I really loved getting that background on the production, thanks again for reminding me about it.

    The Wire is SO FUCKING GOOD, watch the hell out of it. I grew up nearish to Baltimore around the time period of The Wire and it's wild how even a show that's ostensibly about how the cops are fucked as an entire institution, they still make the cops in the show 10000x better than actual baltimore police. I won't spoil what's in the show, but just imagine the whole show being cops that are the bad guy cops and you have a way more accurate depiction of the BPD

    And with Herman and capitalism I feel like their passing line about debs makes it kinda weird how absent class rhetoric is from herman's criticisms. I guess the production was more interested in a cohesive narrative and couldn't get into the weeds on every facet of his politics but it does seem weird that herman theoretically voted for debs but never mentions the angle that capitalism takes in lindbergh's presidency outside of one kinda shoehorned scene with his brother that kinda feels forced or unbelievable.