Sewell’s pause is glorious on “You killed…me?” You can tell he understands that John almost enjoys the insanity of it all, and that he knows now that he can just Marty McFly the whole thing and step right into the shoes of the Salesman of the Year. There’s some junk about Kido investigating corruption and how the Resistance hurt their cause, but the next major moment comes when John learns from his Nazi Terminator that, well, he’s been murdered.
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The latter throws a bunch of passive-aggressive strudel at the feet of Helen Smith about her being away and how to be a good Nazi wife. The former meets with Smith about moving to New York, clearly threatening his position. They’re both not-so-subtly threatened by people allied with Himmler, including a new rising star in the party for John and Himmler’s horrendous better half for Helen. Meanwhile, John and Helen Smith are preparing for an important dinner with Fuhrer Heinrich Himmler.
Here’s the key question that the show hasn’t really answered, though: How did Juliana’s time in the “good” reality change her? If she just returns to the Resistance to topple the Reich, will it feel like a narrative waste of time? Juliana is quickly picked up by inept authorities, whom she even more quickly escapes from, finding her way back to a Resistance. She “travels” back to her original timeline, allowing for some nice production design regarding the state of Washington DC, including the decimated rubble of the Lincoln Memorial. Much like Helen Smith returned to New York last episode, Juliana Crain decides she’s not going to wait around anymore for the Nazis to come and get her. There’s a disturbing pattern this season in which it really feels like one could skip the first half of each episode and still get the “good stuff,” and pretty much be able to follow what’s happening.
Photo: Liane Hentscher/Liane Hentscher/Amazon StudiosĪfter a wonderful intro that sees the return of Stephen Root as Hawthorne Abendsen, aka The Man in the High Castle, now forced into a role as a Rod Serling for the Nazi propaganda machine, “Happy Trails” becomes another chapter heavy on wheel-spinning but with a solid final 15 minutes.