![]() ![]() ![]() Told over only six hour-long episodes that span a little over two years (1940-1942), Plot tracks an alternate history in which aviator and national hero Charles Lindbergh (Ben Cole) beats Franklin Delano Roosevelt to become president of the United States. ![]() While Philip Roth published his alternate-history novel The Plot Against America in 2004, the 2020 HBO adaptation helmed by The Wire co-creators David Simon and Ed Burns could not have been written for any time but the present. Both ongoing and limited series like Chernobyland The Americans are excavating specific points in our past for the sake of contemporary society. However, as recent period piece television series are proving, that trend seems to be turning backwards as well. It’s an old adage that most science fiction is written looking toward the future through the lens of the present. This The Plot Against America review contains no spoilers. ![]()
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