![]() Simon’s attraction to the source material is not hard to ascertain. But the Roth household is a much more intimate (at times claustrophobic) lens to explore such big-picture shifts than The Wire’s Baltimore police department or The Deuce’s cross section of the Times Square sex industry. The Plot Against America partly fits the profile, with the Roth family as a way into what it might be like to live through the erosion of democracy and rise of state-sanctioned violence. When you turn on a Simon show, you know you’re in for a methodical exploration of changing urban institutions through overlapping, and often opposed, personal experience. ![]() The erstwhile journalist, who leads the show alongside former detective and The Wire collaborator Ed Burns, has one of the most consistent M.O.s in modern television. ![]() The Plot Against America, the six-part 2020 miniseries that premiered on HBO on Monday night, occupies a similarly strange place in the canon of cocreator David Simon. ![]()
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