The Plot Against America teaser: David Simon’s topical HBO miniseries looks slick

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By: Entertainment Desk | New Delhi | Published: January 31, 2020 9:33:14 pm

The Plot Against America arrives on March 16.sk

The teaser for The Plot Against America is out. The HBO miniseries comes from David Simon, who has made critically acclaimed TV shows like The Wire and The Deuce for the network. Simon has penned the series with Ed Burns, a regular collaborator.

The series is based on the eponymous alternate-history novel by Philip Roth. The story is about a United States in which a Jewish family from New Jersey follows a presidential election in which an anti-semitic, pro-Nazism candidate, Charles Lindbergh, wins against Franklin Roosevelt in 1940 and becomes the president.

Lindbergh, incidentally, was a real-life figure who was actually at loggerheads with Roosevelt, though he never fought in the elections.