Hopefully, these characters can find love in all the darkness as the season progresses!Īs those couples come together, another is falling apart as John guides his troubled wife Helen to her psychoanalyst amidst talk of seances and ouija boards could Helen actually sense Thomas is still alive somewhere because of the parallel worlds? An intriguing possibility! Meanwhile, seeing Smith attempt to navigate the suspicious nature of Raeder’s disappearance, the news of the botched raid in Denver, and the intel about Juliana hearkens back wonderfully to his poker-faced persona in season one. Likewise, it’s great to see antiquities dealer Robert Childan and Ed again, making acquisitions in the neutral zone with their characteristic lighter tone, but when an attractive stranger named Jack buys Ed a drink, viewers might be more hopefully pessimistic for Ed rather than cautiously optimistic as they are with Tagomi.

Although Tagomi meeting an attractive Okinawan from Hawaii on the beach only hints at a future romance, it also elicits a twinge of suspicion. The introduction of new storylines without explanation, in fact, can actually add to the intrigue, and such is the case here.

Oddly, Kido doesn’t press the point of Trudy, a woman he killed, being alive again, but as we see in the inspector’s interaction with his new sergeant, he’s used to playing the long game anyway. On the other hand, it’s weird that Kido and Smith, both sympathetic characters despite their questionable actions, must fight and scrap for this same information, even though Tagomi has the opportunity to explain things to the Kempeitai inspector. On the one hand, it was refreshing to see how quickly Juliana grasps the concept of her multiple selves this early in the season. As one of the best episodes of the first half of the season, it’s good to see the groundwork laid so solidly for the story to come. With conspiracies and political intrigue sprouting and beginning to blossom promisingly, the pacing of the story feels very comfortable but strong, especially since the show takes time to broaden the scope of its parallel worlds idea that has been in the background for so long. The second episode of The Man in the High Castle season 3 really hit the ground running, introducing new conflicts but also hitting us with some major shockers. The Man in the High Castle Season 3 Episode 2 This review contains spoilers for The Man in the High Castle.

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