the man in the high castle season 1 episode 5 recap

There’s a doorway from one world into the next, and now people can move freely between them.” In effect, what that means is two worlds have become one. “The portal is, essentially, open and it is going to remain open. “Part of the intention was to invite the audience to have their own interpretation of what they’re seeing on screen.” Though he does offer a tantalizing detail. Over at Entertainment Weekly, showrunner David Scarpa said the scene was intentionally ambiguous. Was there some kind of parallel universe organization affecting events in this world the way the Nazis had been interfering in that other world they kept visiting? And they decided that now was the time to pay it a visit? Or maybe these were refugees who had fled this reality and were now returning? It never established firm details about the travelers who had been bringing those alternate universe films to this version of Earth, and those films came from many more Earths than just the one the Nazis had been using the portal to travel to. “The Man in the High Castle” doesn’t really provide anything in the way of setup for this turn of events, either way.

Was this some kind of metaphor, with the souls of those killed in the past two decades of atrocities around the world returning? Or was it really, literally happening?Īlso Read: 'Jojo Rabbit' Film Review: Taika Waititi Insists That Nazis Can Be Funny Juliani says these people are coming from “everywhere” but that’s obviously very vague. It was a very moving moment for me to watch, even though I honestly do not understand what it means. John Smith (Rufus Sewell), perpetrator of so many crimes against humanity, is finally dead and gone.

The east coast has autonomy from Germany, and is now being run by a guy who clearly wants the Nazis gone. The Japanese have abandoned North America, and the Black Communist Rebellion is setting up a new, presumably much better government. So as we arrive at that final scene, things are looking up in the, ah, Prime Earth of this story. And the ending of this series, the final scene of season 4, can be a bit confusing for folks because it’s more in that metaphorical territory.

On the one hand you’ve got the standard narrative in the form of the alternate history in which the Axis powers won World War II, and on the other the whole thing about parallel universes, which has always served a more metaphorical function. “The Man in the High Castle” is not the most straightforward book, and naturally the TV show that Amazon has turned that book into is likewise not straightforward. (Spoilers ahead for the ending of “The Man in the High Castle” season 4, which is also the ending of the entire series.

The man in the high castle season 1 episode 5 recap