Something for the weekend? The plot against America.

Another weekend treat. Based on the Philip Roth book from 2004, this premiered on HBO in March and is now on the Sky Player and Sky Atlantic.

It's fiction, but historically grounded (if that makes any sense) and based around a 1940 run for President by Charles Lindbergh. You'll know him for the first solo Atlantic flight in Spirit of St. Louis and perhaps the movie with Jimmy Stewart (who was a real bomber pilot in WW2). Indeed, the infamous child kidnapping case too.

It's about Nazis and the plight of American jewry but really more about the troubling heritage of America and dare I say it, what we are seeing there today. Racism and anti-semitism but also a disregard for others who are 'different'. 

A country we respected in downfall. 

Beautifully shot over 6 episodes, it's well worth a look!