(The superlative Transparent is produced by the company’s comedy division.) There are still good performances and strong production values, but the series is now uninterested in big ideas or themes - as emptily provocative as the promotional ads Amazon cooks up for it. In and of themselves, these discussion segments are nothing worth getting too upset about, but they exemplify just where the second season of The Man in the High Castle went wrong, and why Amazon, thanks to largely self-inflicted wounds, remains a second-rate pretender when it comes to making quality dramas. Mostly, he made sure viewers knew what they had just finished watching. I watched all 10 installments, and he talked about something that wasn’t a direct recitation of plot points maybe twice. Percival’s post-episode musings on The Man in the High Castle are especially devoid of anything worthwhile.
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