And it’s their passionate debates, more than any sensational turn of events, that give the slow, deliberate show its resonance. Though they share blood, culture and heritage, each character reacts in a different way to Lindbergh’s ascent. Occupying two floors of a shared house, insurance agent Herman ( Homeland’s Morgan Spector) and his wife Bess ( Zoe Kazan) preside over a clan that includes their two sons, artistic teen Sandy (Caleb Malis) and sensitive 10-year-old Philip (Azhy Robertson from Marriage Story) Herman’s orphaned, angry-young-man nephew Alvin (Anthony Boyle) and Evelyn, Bess’ older sister, whose life has been stymied by an obligation to care for their sick mother. At the center of this saga from The Wire and The Deuce creator David Simon and his frequent collaborator Ed Burns are the Levins, a working-class Jewish family in Newark, NJ. It makes sense, then, that argument is the primary mode of conversation in The Plot Against America, debuting March 16, an incisive six-episode series adapted from the 2004 Philip Roth novel that imagines an alternate history in which legendary aviator and America First mouthpiece Charles Lindbergh defeats Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1940 election.
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