The Man in the High Castle is currently filming Season 4, which will be the end of the series. Here are five shows you’ll want to watch while waiting for the alternate history series to return.
Hands up if you can’t wait for The Man in the High Castle Season 4. While it may be the confirmed ending to the series, there’s no doubt that you want to see how it all finishes. You’ll want to know if Nazi America can be taken down and what is the magic behind the alternate dimensions.
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However, there’s a wait. The fourth and final season is currently filming and it’s not planned to be released until fall 2019. Hopefully, it is fall 2019 and we don’t get the 20+ month long way that we had between the second and third seasons.
You’re likely looking for ways to use up your time. Rewatching the series is certainly a good way to spend your time, but what about when you want something a little different? What about when you want to see more history play out in front of your eyes? There are many other shows that you’ll love as a fan of The Man in the High Castle.
Here are five shows you most definitely need to check out.
5. Timeless
While it may only have two seasons, Timeless remains one of the greatest TV shows involving time travel. Unfortunately, the cost of the production led to that cancellation and nobody has saved it yet (and that’s extremely disappointing).
The show, created by Eric Kripke and Shawn Ryan, is about three people who have absolutely nothing in common except one thing: they’ve been brought together to save all of time. A “time terrorist” has gone into the past in an attempt to stop an organization called Rittenhouse to get his wife and child back, but it means changing many major events in history.
Now, not only does the “Time Team,” as they’ve been nicknamed, need to figure out a way to stop this terrorist but they also need to prevent the timeline changing. One small change can have a huge knock-on effect in the future, removing people from the timeline that you wouldn’t even think initially possible.
Along the way, the three people have secrets exposed, learn more about themselves, and find love with each other. The question is whether their relationships can work out, while they go to different points in time to prevent historical events changing. You’ll get to go back to the birth of America, meet Abraham Lincoln, and see a young John F. Kennedy.
4. Outlander
The Man in the High Castle is a book adaptation, so it makes sense that another book adaptation will be on this list. Outlander offers more than that though. It’s a romance, fantasy series, based on the novel series by Diana Gabaldon.
It all starts with a WWII nurse, who finds herself traveling through time to 1743. From there, she needs to figure out a way back, while learning that her husband’s ancestor may not be the gentleman history now makes him out to be.
While in the past, she meets a Scotsman, Jamie McTavish. Yet it’s soon clear that he’s keeping a dark secret, one that she eventually learns before falling in love with him. Will she remain in the past or find her way back to her own time to be with her husband?
There are currently four seasons of Outlander available. A fifth season is currently filming and a sixth season has been confirmed. There are currently eight books in the series with a ninth being worked on and a 10th planned. There’s certainly plenty of material to get through while you wait for The Man in the High Castle Season 4.
3. Sliders
When you want a show that may be old but has plenty of episodes to binge, then Sliders is certainly a show you need to check out. Jerry O’Connell played Quinn Mallory who finds a way to travel through dimensions, and you’ve likely immediately figured out why this is on our list. Dimension traveling is everything that The Man in the High Castle has become.
In this show, Quinn figures out a way to travel but there’s a huge catch. He’s not able to get back home. You’ve likely heard of this before and it is extremely similar to Quantum Leap, so you’ve actually got an extra show on this list to definitely check out as a High Castle fan.
Quinn isn’t alone in this series. He has a group of travellers and they need to work together. While they spend time learning about the different versions of Earth, they are also on the clock. They can only slide at specific times and if they don’t open the vortex, they’re stuck in a particular dimension for 29.7 years. No pressure!
There are five seasons of the show, which gives you plenty of episodes to stream while you wait for The Man in the High Castle Season 4.
2. Counterpart
This STARZ Original only has two seasons but it’s certainly something to check out as a fan of The Man in the High Castle. While set in our world, it introduces the idea of parallel dimensions, which is the way The Man in the High Castle has gone with its video reels and ability to travel through dimensions.
In Counterpart, [character name] finds out that in the lower levels of the CIA there’s a doorway to another dimension. He meets his counterpart, and it turns out the two are the only people they can each trust. They need to uncover the conspiracy within their two worlds.
Of course, that one conspiracy adapts and grows considerable. When the two get stuck in their alternate worlds, they need to pretend to be each other to be able to survive. Can they find their way back to their own worlds?
It was a travesty that this show was canceled after two seasons. It’s intriguing and well developed. The characters are two-dimensional, drawing you into the story that the show has to offer. Just watch one episode and you will be hooked.
1. SS-GB
One of the things that drew fans into The Man in the High Castle was the fact that we got this alternate history. It started as a “what if” world, with the Nazis defeating the Allied powers in WWII. This naturally led to plenty of theories and ideas on the type of world America would have found itself in. SS-GB is very similar to that.
Rather than being set in the U.S., this is set in 1941 London, England. The Nazis defeated the British in war and now the country is controlled by the SS> Douglas Archer is a London detective, who works under the SS. When a murder connects him with Barbara Barga, and U.S. journalist, his world is thrown upside down.
This is certainly a series that offers everything. It delivers the crime drama and conspiracy theory show that many people kept watching The Man in the High Castle for. It’s also a chance to see another “what if” world.
It just shows that one thing can change absolutely everything. However, this one being set in 1941 means that much of what happened between 1942 and 1945 during the war never had a chance to happen, which changes so much more worldwide.
What are you watching while to get through the break waiting for more The Man in the High Castle? What shows do you recommend to fans? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
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