Trailer For HBO's THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA Offers a Dark Alternate History if Charles Lindbergh Was Elected President in 1940

HBO has shared the first trailer for their fascinating limited series titled The Plot Against America, which cames from The Wire producers David Simon and Ed Burns. The six-episode series is an adaptation of Philip Roth’s novel, the story of which offers a dark alternate history of the United States and imagines how things might have played out if Charles Lindbergh was elected president in 1940 instead of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

The series will tell a story of the country’s turn to fascism told through the eyes of a working-class Jewish family in New Jersey. The series obviously parallels how many people see the current state of the United States and this series is a statement and commentary on that.

Lindbergh is considered an American hero who is best known for making the first solo flight from New York to Paris. He also suffered the tragic death of his young son after he was snatched out of his crib in the night and murdered. That event was known as “the crime of the century.” But, there’s a lot more about Limbergh that the history books didn’t teach when we were in school and this series leans into some of those other things such as his prejudices against British and Jewish people.

The series has a great cast that includes Zoe Kazan, Winona Ryder, and John Turturro and when talking about developing the series, Simon explained:

“[Roth] wrote a book that was politically sensate whether or not the issue was anti-Semitism or persecution of Jews in 1940. If you’re taking it literally, there’s not much point in us doing that, although anti-Semitism is resurgent. The savagery that’s being shown – great effort is being made to define people as less American, which is disastrous for what the American republic has to be. The book goes for this very specific historical moment and specific threat against Jews to being very allegorical to our time.”

The Plot Against America premieres on March 16, 2020 at 9pm on HBO.

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