Home > The Plot Against America > Season 1 « TV Series Page The Plot Against America: Season 1 (2020) Want to see Episode List Season 1 The Plot Against America Critics Consensus A cautionary tale that hits close to home, The Plot Against America's handsomely realized revisionist history is disturbingly relevant, making it difficult, but essential viewing. 87% TOMATOMETER Critic Ratings: 60 71% Audience Score User Ratings: 35 See score details Submit review Want to see Submit review Super Reviewer Super Reviewer Tap to review this movie Review this tv season Edit Review Super Reviewer Rate this season Oof, that was Rotten. Meh, it passed the time. It’s good – I’d recommend it. Awesome! So Fresh: Absolute Must See! What did you think of this tv season? (optional) Submit Continue Super Reviewer Step 2 of 2 How did you get your ticket? 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On the eve of the 1940 election cycle, Herman Levin anticipates a promotion at work and taking his family to look at a house in an upwardly mobile neighborhood, though his wife, Bess, is wary of leaving the safety of their tight-knit Jewish community and raising a family amid growing anti-Semitism sparked by Charles Lindbergh's ascendancy. As the family spinster, her sister has a disappointing rendezvous with a married lover, but later finds herself charmed by a local rabbi. More 2 Part 2 Air date: Mar 23, 2020 Lindbergh's increasingly popular campaign sweeps through the U.S. and captures some in the Levin family, as well as Bengelsdorf, with Evelyn as his assistant and lover, becoming a key asset in the Lindbergh camp, while Sandy, enamored of the aviator's charm, celebrity and history, begins a rebellion of his own within the family of New Deal Democrats. Meanwhile, Alvin must decide between serving a local developer or risking an open fight with the fascist forces he sees spreading across the world. More 3 Part 3 Air date: Mar 30, 2020 Part 03 - Based on the homonymous novel by Philip Roth, a chilling alternative history where an anti-Semite is elected president of the United States. More 4 Episode 4 Air date: Apr 6, 2020 Part 04 - Based on the homonymous novel by Philip Roth and told through the eyes of a Jewish family from New Jersey, the series presents a chilling alternative history where anti-Semitism is part of American life during the time of World War II. More 5 Episode 5 Air date: Apr 13, 2020 More 6 Episode 6 Air date: Apr 20, 2020 More The Plot Against America: Season 1 Videos 2:22 The Plot Against America: Limited Series Trailer 1:53 The Plot Against America: Limited Series Teaser 0:49 The Plot Against America: Episode 3 Trailer 1:00 The Plot Against America: Episode 4 Trailer View All Videos (4) Tv Season Info Genre: Drama Network: HBO Premiere Date: Mar 16, 2020 Creators: David Simon, Ed Burns Exec. Producers: David Simon, Ed Burns, Nina Kostroff Noble, Joe Roth, Megan Ellison, Sue Naegle, Jeff Kirschenbaum Cast Winona Ryder as Evelyn Finkel John Turturro as Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf Zoe Kazan as Elizabeth Levin Anthony Boyle as Alvin Morgan Spector as Herman Azhy Robertson as Philip Caleb Malis as Sandy Show More Cast News & Interviews for The Plot Against America: Season 1 TV Premiere Dates 2020 View All The Plot Against America: Season 1 News Episodes 1 Part 1 Air date: Mar 16, 2020 Series premiere. On the eve of the 1940 election cycle, Herman Levin anticipates a promotion at work and taking his family to look at a house in an upwardly mobile neighborhood, though his wife, Bess, is wary of leaving the safety of their tight-knit Jewish community and raising a family amid growing anti-Semitism sparked by Charles Lindbergh's ascendancy. As the family spinster, her sister has a disappointing rendezvous with a married lover, but later finds herself charmed by a local rabbi. More 2 Part 2 Air date: Mar 23, 2020 Lindbergh's increasingly popular campaign sweeps through the U.S. and captures some in the Levin family, as well as Bengelsdorf, with Evelyn as his assistant and lover, becoming a key asset in the Lindbergh camp, while Sandy, enamored of the aviator's charm, celebrity and history, begins a rebellion of his own within the family of New Deal Democrats. Meanwhile, Alvin must decide between serving a local developer or risking an open fight with the fascist forces he sees spreading across the world. More 3 Part 3 Air date: Mar 30, 2020 Part 03 - Based on the homonymous novel by Philip Roth, a chilling alternative history where an anti-Semite is elected president of the United States. More 4 Episode 4 Air date: Apr 6, 2020 Part 04 - Based on the homonymous novel by Philip Roth and told through the eyes of a Jewish family from New Jersey, the series presents a chilling alternative history where anti-Semitism is part of American life during the time of World War II. More 5 Episode 5 Air date: Apr 13, 2020 More 6 Episode 6 Air date: Apr 20, 2020 More Critic Reviews for The Plot Against America Season 1 All Critics (60) | Top Critics (25) | Fresh (52) | Rotten (8) It watches as prejudice and injustice spread insidiously like a disease, as the abnormal and obnoxious and unthinkable become commonplace. Mar 23, 2020 | Rating: A- | Full Review… Tom Long Detroit News Top Critic "The Plot Against America" is indelible piece of work about how politics reaches into personal lives. Mar 17, 2020 | Full Review… Matthew Gilbert Boston Globe Top Critic Roth captured big, complicated ideas about a big complicated country. They're far too big for any screen. Sorry - even one as lovingly attended to as this one. Mar 16, 2020 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review… Verne Gay Newsday Top Critic Roth's story becomes a meticulously detailed and gorgeously directed miniseries. Mar 16, 2020 | Full Review… Eric Deggans NPR Top Critic How Simon escalates the story, and just how close to home the series hits, is yet to be seen. But "The Plot Against America" is off to a promising beginning - if not in content, then in form. Mar 16, 2020 | Rating: B+ | Full Review… Jude Dry indieWire Top Critic But the series' feet are in the 1940s while its head is in the late 2010s. And as a result doesn't feel like it fully belongs anywhere. Mar 16, 2020 | Full Review… Laura Miller Slate Top Critic An excellent, albeit slow-burning, look at a fleshed-out alternate reality where an everyday American family... face opposition from neighbors who quickly reveal their true colors. Mar 30, 2020 | Full Review… Merrill Barr The Daily Dot It's a superb cast, and if you liked showrunner David Simon's The Wire and Treme, you'll find this fantasy world is catnip. Mar 23, 2020 | Full Review… Tim Appelo AARP Movies for Grownups The Plot Against America seeks to answer no less grand a question than what this country means. Mar 20, 2020 | Full Review… Alison Herman The Ringer I don't know where your head is at right now, a week into a societal shutdown with no definitive end...But, weirdly, I found The Plot Against America somewhat reassuring. Mar 19, 2020 | Full Review… Jordan Hoffman Times of Israel A demagogue like Lindbergh is an unmistakably resonant villain. This is not an easy watch, nor a perfect one, but its unmistakable seriousness makes it worthy of your time. Mar 19, 2020 | Full Review… Taylor Antrim Vogue More than anything, HBO's adaptation nails a tricky dynamic to depict in a dramatic form like film or television: the sensation that significant, world-shaping historical events are unfolding around you and there's no way to control them. Mar 19, 2020 | Full Review… Dan Jackson Thrillist View All Critic Reviews (60) Audience Reviews for The Plot Against America: Season 1 5d ago Fair to middling. The production values were great - one had a real sense of time and place. As far as the plot was concerned - the book was more engaging - is it neccessary to string this out into multiple episodes? Bill K 5d ago I read this when it first came out. I think John Torturro is miscast as a Newark rabbi with a Southern accent, but the recreation of the period simulates the era we are observing. Winona Ryder looks right as a middle-aged Jewish aunt, not so sure about Zoe Kazan. The writing is commendable, but the anti-semites will never go away. Luck, Lucky Lindy did. Allan H Mar 25, 2020 Winona Ryder gives a brilliant performance of a woman whose wish to not be an "old maid" leads her to turn her back on everything she believes in. Andjela K Mar 21, 2020 This is fantastic writing. David Simon at his best. The series is more relevant today than ever before. 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