The 1960s version of Times Square in Amazon's new series The Man in the High Castle is a familiar place, even for modern eyes, until you notice a very large swastika where the Coca-Cola sign should be.<br />New York City, circa 1962, is part of the Greater Nazi Reich, while the West Coast is run by Japan in High Castle , adapted from the Philip K. Dick sci-fi novel that imagines the Allies were defeated in World War II and the Axis took over the USA except for a swath of mountain states that became a neutral zone.<br />Confused, Juliana takes her sibling's place in the journey east, where a fledgling resistance leads her to Joe, who has been tapped to drive a truck with unknown cargo from New York to Canon City and harbors secrets of his own.<br />"We don't like to think that we could lose, and we like to think that there'll be a happy ending, and how you get by in difficult circumstances is still one of the central preoccupations of the TV series: How do you live in a world that's not the world it should be or that's unfair?"
