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Tommy_Carcetti

(43,181 posts) Tue Mar 24, 2020, 07:32 AM Mar 2020

HBO's The Plot Against America is very good, but sadly...

...is not providing me the sort of escapism I should probably be getting at the moment.

It's all a little too real.

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HBO's The Plot Against America is very good, but sadly... (Original Post) Tommy_Carcetti Mar 2020 OP

I watched it. Well done but upsetting. In_The_Wind Mar 2020 #1

Same here nuxvomica Mar 2020 #2

The novel is pretty good Buckeyeblue Mar 2020 #3

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)

1. I watched it. Well done but upsetting.

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Tue Mar 24, 2020, 07:34 AM

Mar 2020

nuxvomica

(12,422 posts)

2. Same here

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Tue Mar 24, 2020, 07:38 AM

Mar 2020

I think the production was actually designed to be a parallel of Trumpism, a subtle warning of the dangers ahead. Too late.

Buckeyeblue

(5,499 posts)

3. The novel is pretty good

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Tue Mar 24, 2020, 07:46 AM

Mar 2020

Especially the first two-thirds. The problem with it is that Roth wanted a happy ending, so it's a bit contrived.

I think what was prophetic was how a celebrity like Lindberg could be elected with practically zero substance in his campaign. He would just fly in on his plane and talk about staying out of the war. Crazy.

Lindberg was an interesting character. If his son had not been brutally murdered which subsequently lead to his wife's spiral into alcoholism, he probably would have run for president.

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