AVClub: There’s something especially unsettling about a Nazi in a green cardigan. From the beginning, many of The Man In The High Castle’s most disturbing moments have centered on Obergruppenführer John Smith: even the incongruity between his ostentatious German title and almost comically ordinary American name reads like a three-word summation of the series’ themes. So it makes sense that the first episode to spotlight Rufus Sewell’s SS officer would be especially effective at encapsulating what makes this alternate world so disquieting when the show is at its best.
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