The Plot Against America

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David Simon won a host of awards for his visceral portrayal of inner-city drug culture in The Wire and now the celebrated writer is tackling the rise of fascism in a dystopian series based on a Phillip Roth novel. Set in 1940, it imagines an alternative history in which Hitler sympathiser Charles Lindbergh is

Winona Ryder

and John Turturro star

US President, to the alarm of the country’s Jewish community. Hollywood big hitters Winona Ryder and John Turturro are among the standout performers, as we view the spiraling horror through the eyes of the Levin family in a tale that feels disturbingly prescient. ★★★★★ SMA

See Winona Ryder interview, page 17