![]() Imagine being able to bring someone you’ve lost back into your life, and then trying to talk them out of putting themselves in danger in a foreign conflict. The most moving episode yet of The Man in the High Castle reaches a point that a lot of science-fiction has in the past when it allows someone to reconnect with a dead loved one. ![]() More than ever, it feels like it could work. Sewell is excellent this episode, but the narrative sags every time it drifts from him, and one wonders why the writers wouldn’t just devote an entire hour to what he goes through in this episode. ![]() There has historically been something of an imbalance in The Man in the High Castle in terms of how interesting the saga of Rufus Sewell’s John Smith has been compared to the rest of the narrative, but this reaches new levels in “Mauvaise Foi,” a showcase for some of the actor’s best work to date, contrasted against some distracting filler.
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