That was the most insight we got this season into everyday life in victorious Nazi Germany.
Miriam reminded me about the most amazing scene in season two, when Juliana gets measured against Nazi-Aryan ideals. I wanted more Robert Childan, the Americana salesman! Well, we saw Berlin, we had family drama, we had less Joe Blake (a good thing), the same amount of Juliana (mumbles) and maybe just the right amount of Inspector Kido. (When I say it now I do it in a German accent.) OK, so the bigger difference between season one and season two is the information we are given about the films.Īnd more swastikas. I would have expected if the Nazis were dealing with the same problem in NYC, they would exhibit similar behavior. They were trying to suppress a resistance that didn’t exist in NYC. But maybe that’s a function of the situation being more fluid in San Francisco and more orderly and under control in New York City. The biggest jerks are the resistance, I think. OK, so in this show are we saying the bigger jerks are the Japanese? Has anyone told the Nazis they need to work on a different motif? There were a lot of swastikas. They were hosts to the whole up-and-coming Nazi suburbanites. They had the stuff they needed to have in the house. Where was the hate in their hearts? Did you miss the huge, fancy “Mein Kampf” on their shelf?! Where was the hate in their hearts? I wanted hate! He sneered when he said the word “Jews.” Where was that hate in the Smith family? They were white picket fence. Way to go, Frank, in not successfully getting revenge and instead blowing yourself up. The only people we see kill Jews is Chief Inspector Takeshi Kido, who kills Frank Frink’s family. Maybe that’s what Nazis do, given time and opportunity, but we didn’t really see anti-Semitism or racism because there were no Jews or minorities. They had to be part of the extermination, but we don’t see any evidence of it. John Smith was a World War II soldier for America, and he became like the top Nazi in America? OK, let’s talk about the American Nazis we met. How would a real family respond when the evil that got them into positions of power are then torn apart by the same evil? The Smith family was the only plot line that had the world as it existed, without time shift and dimensional paradoxes.īut come on! John Smith? Try harder, writing staff! That’s because they are the least annoying of any characters in this thing. No complaints.īecause it seems to me that showing them normalizes American Nazis, and that was kind of the point. Established a world, then upended it, but didn’t build enough credibility to do it. Neither made sense in the universe that they created for us.
#Frank frink season 3 trial#
“Seinfeld” had a trial in the finale to hold these amoral characters accountable. The “Roseanne”/“Seinfeld” paradox: “Roseanne” told us it was all a dream. Harry Potter isn’t special because he is special he is special because Voldemort makes him so. The man in the high castle tells her she alone makes the right choices in every reality. Juliana was always supposed to kill George Dixon in the alley. And the tagline for this season is, “The future belongs to those who change it,” but it’s established that nothing can be changed. When a motivating death happens (Trudy), and then that is completely undercut in the last episode of season two when she appears to be fine (maybe from an alternate reality), then I get annoyed, because nothing matters. I assume that advice, in this case, extends to would-be SS officers.Įven if your heart leads you to being an immediately vastly important member of the Reich for no reason! Immediately!
#Frank frink season 3 movie#
He thinks that Juliana of all people would say, “Yes, Joe, you should be a Nazi, that is your destiny.” She would never say that.įollow your heart-that’s the plot of every movie my 6-year-old daughter watches. He goes on this whole existential trip about how his dad abandoned him, and he abandoned his semi-adoptive son with Rita. He assumes Juliana is dead because John Smith tells him (LOL). No, Joe is dumb, and I will tell you why: 1. Luke Kleintank as Joe Blake (Photo: Amazon)Īnd we spent so much of that time in another alternate reality.
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