Amazon's "THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE" was the best new TV show of last year that no one is talking about. 

Because its on Amazon.com and not on Netflix or HBO its an underdog that doesn't get the attention it more than deserves. "THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE" was the best new show of 2015 and it's set in an alternate history where the Nazis & the Japanese won WWII and conquered America. It's one of the most realistic dystopian tales you will ever see. The writing is superb as well as the acting. This isn't a "shoot-em-up" type of dystopia. It's better. Since the Nazis are in total control they have already exterminated all of their enemies & undesirables. This means that there is no real resistance against them save a mere handful of people whose only real crime is thinking differently.

The writing for "The Man in the High Castle" doesn't offer simple nor easy solutions for us to view its villains. Because of its tactful teleplay the show allows us to sympathize and even possibly root for the Nazi and Japanese characters who are and work for their totalitarian governments. The reason? The Nazi and Japanese characters aren't one dimensional. They have self interests of their own. They are as human as anybody else, cogs in a greater wheel, run by higher people whom they work for, and for whom loyalty and honor are frequently on the line. What's surprising is that even in a World run by Hitler, there are those that have even darker tendencies than the Fuhrer. Thanks to good writing, the show toys with this relative notion of what is a good Nazi or a bad one. Our heroes here are couple of Americans, broken and defeated, whom have inadvertently stumbled into asking questions about a new & different world that is free from tyranny but the answers they discover are fleeting at best. This is a terrific slow burning but suspenseful story about the battle of ideas, espionage, & loyalties tested. I think it was the best new show of 2015.