The show focuses on Juliana, a young woman who practices Japanese martial arts at a dojo all the time and doesn't appear to have a stable job. And then there's Frank, her boyfriend, a Jewish artist who works at a gun factory making gun replicas. Then there's Joe Blake, a Nazi undercover operative working for a Nazi high command. Those are the main characters. I'll tell you a little bit about how the show starts.
Julianna's sister ends up getting shot and killed by the Kempetei (Japanese secret police), and as she's dying she gives Jules a film that she says has to be kept safe. Jules runs inside with it and its safe. When she and Frank take a look at it they see a different kind of America, one where America won the war against the Nazi's. It gives them hope, well, mostly it gives Jules hope because Frank doesn't think anything of it and that they should just forget about it. But in the end Jules ends up looking for whoever the film needs to get to. She ends up going to some city in the neutral zone, I guess an area where Nazi's and Japanese have no control. She ends up finding a contact, some weird guy that makes origami stuff. But he ends up being a Nazi agent and she ends up killing the guy in self-defense, throwing him off a bridge with a waterfall. Joe Blake ends up helping her out, and in a way he ends up falling in love with her. But he never sees that love reciprocated until the very end, when Jules lets Joe escape from her Resistance friends, who were going to kill him. So anyways, the main plot of the show ends up being all about these peculiar films, that show a different America.
Near the end there's some science fiction elements, because in the 2nd film Jules and Frank get they see that Frank is getting killed by Joe Blake via Nazi firing squad. It made no sense but it was just perfect. Also, the ending was interesting as well. Basically there's this Japanese Prime Minister who uses this old tradition from Japan to live his life. I forget what it was exactly but it was some kind of Oracle that he lives his life by, and he meditates on it a lot. So at the end of the series he goes to a public place in the middle of a busy area and he sits on a bench and starts meditating. When he wakes up all the Japanese people are gone and there's all these American white people, hot dog stands, and all these classic 1950s American billboards, music, and stuff. It's kind of a questionable ending but I did enjoy it.
This show is mostly all talking dialogue and drama. But boy does it get intense! It was especially interesting seeing how the American Nazi high command was such a good family man that loved his son (who ended up having a debilitating disease), despite being a Nazi. I also liked how there was the Nazi high commander who was going to kill Hitler but in the end couldn't face up to do it even though he was right in front of his face. Here's a Nazi who was against everything the Nazi's stood for, but couldn't bring himself to kill Hitler because they would kill his family. The most messed up part was when Frank (who's Jewish), was tortured for being a Jew, and when he wouldn't tell the Kempeitei where Jules was, so they killed his sister and her kids. Pretty messed up man. Also, there's a chance that there could be a second season for this show! I'm not sure. If I could give this show a rating for a review I would give it a 9.5 out of 10, it definitely gets the BADASS stamp of approval. This is what great science fiction looks like. I could see this show becoming a cult classic. Check it out.
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