{"id":4456,"date":"2017-01-01T22:32:14","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T03:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=4456"},"modified":"2017-01-01T22:32:14","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T03:32:14","slug":"man-in-the-high-castle-juliana-saves-the-world-season-2-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=4456","title":{"rendered":"Man In the High Castle: Juliana Saves the World (Season 2 Review)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/juliana.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4457\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/juliana.jpg\" alt=\"juliana\" width=\"255\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/juliana.jpg 255w, https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/juliana-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a>TV has asked us to identify with a lot of antiheroes&#8212;mob bosses, teachers turned drug kingpins, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agonybooth.com\/tv-shows\/the-americans\">Soviet-era spies who kill sweet old ladies<\/a>&#8212;but embracing genocidal war criminals feels like a bridge too far. Even worse, Season 2 of <em>The Man in the High Castle<\/em>\u00a0vilifies the resistance. It&#8217;s like they remade <em>Casablanca,<\/em> but focused on the problems of Colonel Strasser, and they made Victor Lazlo a self-righteous doofus. \u00a0Plus Juliana is now some kind of crazy superhero with a role to play in every single time frame and all her idiotic decisions save the world.<\/p>\n<p>And that is the elevator version of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agonybooth.com\/the-man-in-the-high-castle-juliana-saves-the-world-51429\">Season 2 Review up at The Agony Booth<\/a>, but you should read the whole thing for yourself. Plus too, the book is better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TV has asked us to identify with a lot of antiheroes&#8212;mob bosses, teachers turned drug kingpins, Soviet-era spies who kill sweet old ladies&#8212;but embracing genocidal war criminals feels like a bridge too far. Even worse, Season 2 of The Man in the High Castle\u00a0vilifies the resistance. It&#8217;s like they remade Casablanca, but focused on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=4456\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Man In the High Castle: Juliana Saves the World (Season 2 Review)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[496],"tags":[1349,1350,1348],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4459,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456\/revisions\/4459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}