There’s always been an air of mystery surrounding the films in The Man in the High Castle and it only deepens when Joe and Juliana finally watch the second film.
Those DC movies better blow me away since they have taken Grade-A bad guys like the Suicide Squad off the board and left us with D-listers like these mooks for Arrow to play with.
Big changes on every Vampire Diaries front, the validation of Valerie as a major player, and side adventures for Bonnie and Matt make this a lively, fast-paced episode.
But the suspension of disbelief required of the viewer in Hulu’s serialized adaptation of King’s 11.22.63 is almost too much, and very nearly ruins what’s a very enjoyable second half.
Sure, it’s something of a “Ripped from the Headlines”/“Very Special Episode” of the X-Files, but the feel is loose and jaunty enough to separate it from the tired tropes of the countless acronym procedurals over on the other stations.
