The Plot Against America Season 1 Episode 1 - Part 1

Airdate: 2020-Mar-16

Episode summary:

Herman Levin, anticipating a promotion at work, takes his family to look at a house in an upwardly mobile neighborhood, though Bess is wary of leaving the safety of their tight-knit Jewish community and raising a family amid growing anti-Semitism sparked by Lindbergh's ascendancy. As the family spinster, her sister Evelyn has a disappointing rendezvous with a married lover, but later, finds herself charmed by a distinguished local clergyman, Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf. Meanwhile, getting an earful from Herman for being fired from his job, his orphaned nephew, Alvin Levin seeks retaliation for an aggrieved friend.

About The Plot Against America series:

The Plot Against America, based on the praised Philip Roth novel, imagines an alternate American history told through the eyes of a working-class J...Show more >