The Plot Against America Review: HBO Limited Series Is a Chilling Allegory for Our Times
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tvguide.comThe Plot Against America, HBO's six-episode limited series from The Wire's David Simon and Ed Burns, is an allegory in the vein of Arthur Miller's The Crucible.
The way that Miller's classic play used the historical analogy of the Salem witch trials to comment on the then-present McCarthy era, during which the federal government persecuted suspected Communists supposedly occupying places of power in the United States, The Plot Against America uses an alternate-history version of America during World War II to comment on America's authoritarian rightward slide in the Trump era.
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