Every Philip K. Dick TV Adaptation Ranked Worst To Best

1. The Man In The High Castle (2015)

The Man in the High Castle
Amazon Prime

The Man In The High Castle is by far the best known and most successful television adaptation of the work of Philip K. Dick to date. It takes Dick's classic 1962 Hugo Award winning novel and brings its terrifying alternative history concept to life with the benefit of modern special effects and production techniques.

The series explores what could have happened if the Axis powers of Nazi Germany and The Empire of Japan had won World War II and describes a former United States Of America divided into distinct areas controlled by the two factions.

The Man In The High Castle's world is brought to life brilliantly and it's a joy discovering how this unfamiliar world looks, feels and operates on a daily basis. It's both fascinating and horrifying.

The look and feel of the show is one of its biggest assets perfectly blending a fondly familiar 1960s retro aesthetic with harsh World War II era fascist iconography and values. It starkly contrasts our modern life and past history which is equally engaging and uncomfortable to watch.

Over the course of its four seasons so far, the show has had to expand beyond the confines of Dick's original story and the showrunners have achieved this reasonably well, maintaining a standard consistent enough to keeps viewers engaged and winning several accolades in the process. The Man In The High Castle is not to be missed.

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