THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE
Amazon Prime Video, 12:00 a.m. ET
PILOT PREVIEW: Today’s the day Amazon unveils its newest batch of pilots, letting website visitors watch them, react to them and therefore have some sort of say, however marginal, in which shows are picked up for series. Here’s the best new drama of this 2015 crop, and a show well worth supporting. It’s from Frank Spotnitz, one of the veteran X-Files writer-producers, and is an excitingly intriguing adaptation of the novel by Philip K. Dick, whose other stories inspired, among other great speculative movies, Blade Runner. This alternate-reality series, set in 1962, imagines a world in which the Allies lost WWII, with the U.S. split up into Japanese and German territories. To see the show, visit Amazon’s Pilot Season web page. For a full review, see Bianculli’s Blog.