The Plot Against America (Season 1)
Freedom is never completely won. But it can be lost.
Synopsis
The Plot Against America (2020) is an HBO miniseries you can watch online on iFILM, adapted from Philip Roth's novel by The Wire creators David Simon and Ed Burns. The premise: Charles Lindbergh, aviator and vocal antisemite, defeats Franklin Roosevelt in 1940 and steers America toward accommodation with Nazi Germany.
The story is told through one working-class Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey. Morgan Spector plays the father holding his ground; Zoe Kazan is the mother trying to read the room before it gets worse. Winona Ryder plays an aunt who decides to make her peace with the new order. John Turturro is the rabbi threading an impossible needle. The fascism here doesn't arrive as a coup — it slides in through elections, speeches, and small bureaucratic accommodations, which is what makes the series uncomfortable in a way that sticks.
Roth's novel came out in 2004, but the HBO version has a different charge depending on when you watch it. Six episodes. The finale is brutal in a very quiet way. Stream The Plot Against America (2020) online on iFILM.
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