Amazon Prime released its first trailer for the final season of The Man in the High Castle, our pick for last year’s best sci-fi TV series here at borg. Last fall’s season three finale, “Jahr Null” (Year Zero), included a set inspired by 1960s sci-fi films where an experiment led by an alternate history Josef Mengele could forever imprint a Nazi-won World War II on any and all timelines. The Liberty Bell was melted down, and the Statue of Liberty was destroyed, falling into New York Harbor. Luke Kleintank’s Joe Blake and Rupert Evans’ Frank Frink are now out of the story, as Jason O’Mara’s Wyatt Price steps in to fill the void in the rogue hero department.
Helen and the girls have left Rufus Sewell’s John Smith, and Himmler is taken down in an assassination attempt. Did he live or die, and does that mean Smith becomes Fuhrer? With Germany’s move on the Japanese States thwarted, a revolution has gained traction out West, and Alexa Davalos’s heroic leader Juliana has finally figured out how to travel like Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa’s Tagomi.
Yes, a lot was resolved, but we’re also set up for much more in this coming season. Will Laura Mennell’s Thelma Harris take on a greater role now that Bella Heathcote’s Nicole Dörmer was sent back to Germany for flaunting the law? And what is the mysterious relationship in another timeline between Juliana and John Smith?
Check out this first look at season four of The Man in the High Castle:
