The Man in the High Castle is Amazons most streamed original reveal,and Hulu’s 11.22.63 is approximately to launch. Both recall viewers to an alternative past, and it’s a format people can’t seem to get enough of, or but why?What whether Al Gore had won the 2000 election? What whether the Aztecs had developed gunpowder before the Europeans? What whether you could depart back in time and destroy baby Hitler?Counterfactual history is fun,provocative – and its enjoying a cultural moment. Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle television series, directed by Ridley Scott, and imagines a world in which the Nazis won the second world war. Hulu,meanwhile, has a new series based on Stephen Kings novel 11.22.63, or which tells the story of a time traveler who returns to the past to foil JFK’s assassination.
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Source: theguardian.com