Well, the whole season of "The Man In The High Castle" comes out Nov 20 (so soon and yet so far), but they put up the second episode for a special preview weekend, and you bet your butt I made sure to check it out.
The premise, since it's been a while since the pilot came out, is that it's 20 years after the Nazis won World War II and the US is divided between Japanese and Nazi forces.
My big fear was that the big scale from the pilot would be pared down and the whole show would take place in the Neutral Zone... thankfully, I was wrong. While TNZ is one of the major settings, we still get A and B plots in New York and San Francisco. And I know I'm supposed to be siding with Julia more than anyone else, but Rufus Sewell was my fave part in this ep, even if he was a villain in the last one. I get the sense that the show is gonna make the audience root for the Nazi, cause this is totally the kind of show that would try that (it does help that we started the ep with him and his family, showed the human side to him and kept him from doing anything particularly evil this time around).
They say that the second episode of a series is as important as the first, because it proves whether or not the show has legs. I think this show has legs. I have an idea of where the characters are going (though I expect that they're going to subvert my expectations as the show continues).
One thing I'm still really hoping is that old man Hitler shows up before the season runs out, considering how important he is to the premise and the fact that his death would sincerely screw up everyone's lives, they GOTTA show him. And not just from behind or in silhouette, either. What would be really boss is if they got Bruno Ganz, the guy who played Hitler in Downfall (the clip of which is the basis of every "Hitler complains" video) to reprise the part.