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Nice visuals, good acting, great fight scenes. It's good to see a young black woman as the main character. A non-binary character nicknamed Slug is a nice touch. And it's very comic book-style, and nicely connected to names and places that mean a lot to a Marvel fan (oh, so you're a wanted person in Madripoor, ever ran into a man named Patch?) And at the same time it's connected to the issues of modern real life. Like the "righteous" anger of the dean about the "zero tolerance towards plagiarism" - while they're giving their students access to an AI (who's very life-like, and just as glitchy and harmful as AIs generally are).

The reviews of rabid Stak fans are hilariously ridiculous. Oh, the characters in the show don't respect the greatness of mister Stark!

How sad.

The Man in the High Castle is one of Philip K. Dick's best novels. It's one of the greatest science fiction novels, period.

This show is connected to Dick's novel by exactly two points. 1) The Axis won WW2, and 2) some characters have the same names as the characters in the novel.

That's it. Let's make a different plot (because, again, one of the best sci fi novels of all times is not good enough for our show). Let's change the few characters we picked from the novel, and put them in completely different situations.

Let's make the plot and the characters as uninteresting as humanly possible, and then try extra hard to make them even less interesting.

What a great idea.

It's amazing how reviewers hate the reboot and claim that it's "not as good as the original", citing the very things that the original did. "The clones are just insults to the original historic chaaaracters!" Really? And the original clones weren't? Do people actually believe that Joan of Arc, Cleopatra, Abraham Lincoln, John Kennedy and Ghandi were more like the original clones than Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo and Confucius and their respective clones? Spoiler (not spoiler): they were not. It was a comedy show to begin with.

"Oh no, they joke about white privilege!" Newsflash (not newsflash): the original show joked about sex, religion, homosexuality, homophobia, rape, homosexual rape, death, prisons, and arthouse films.

"Oh no, there's so many cliche sentiments and themes!" Well this is what it always has been, it parodied the cliche sentiments and themes. Duh.

The only thing missing is, of course, Ghandi. But he's always mentioned.