A British homicide detective investigates a murder in a German-occupied England in a parallel universe where the Nazis won World War II.A British homicide detective investigates a murder in a German-occupied England in a parallel universe where the Nazis won World War II.A British homicide detective investigates a murder in a German-occupied England in a parallel universe where the Nazis won World War II.
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- TriviaIn the late 1970s, copies of Len Deighton's book carried a "Soon to be a major motion picture" sticker. In 1978, famed exploitation producer Harry Alan Towers had set this up as a British -Canadian co-production to star James Mason, Ralph Richardson, Kate Nelligan and Rod Steiger, but financing fell through at the last moment.
- GoofsThe SS are aware that Detective Archer does not share their beliefs, and that his wife was killed by German bombing. Yet they choose to keep him as the chief local policeman on a case they view as enormously important, rather than recruiting a more reliable collaborator. Great Britain, like all countries in Western Europe, had some pro-Nazi bodies to choose from.
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I liked man in the Man in the High Castle, although a lot of the time you are spoon fed the concepts and told what's going on more by pointless dialog and not by a simple matter of deduction. SS-GB is nothing like the Man in The High Castle, as far as I'm concerned, that's Sci-Fi and SS-GB is fiction. And I admit that I was put off thinking its UK version of the above and some pretty bad reviews. I should have ignored them, because after watching the first episode I had to binge on the next 2. SS-GB is dark and gritty, it's what I would expect of a UK based crime thriller. No fast car chases .. well there might be later, no 1000 bullet magazines or bar brawls. I could smell the "Big Smoke's", War Time atmosphere because the sets where so convincing. The pace was fine the tension build up was perfect, the dynamics between the characters great. The story and concept are an excellent piece of "What if", so I'm astounded by so much negativity about this series. What I have found is that all my friends over the age of 30 really enjoyed it and it's become a talking point during socialising. However below that age, it seems to need a lot of explanation, as in "Were the SS the German police?" etc., although Sam Riley's character made a good attempt of trying to explain the differences. And all this "Douglas Archer", mumbled a lot, total tosh! Stop watching it on your phone on the tube and appreciate the surround sound and glorious HD on a decent TV.
- dave-35295
- Mar 15, 2017
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