watched season 1, but literally forgot/didnt understand anything. Is there a quick recap of season 1 to watch, before i look at season 2?
Season 1 spoiler alert.
Backdrop: The world is dominated by two world powers: The Reich and the Japanese Empire. They have managed to get along since WWII but there are those extremists on the Nazi side (unlike the "moderate" Hitler) who want to provoke a war, so they can wipe out the Empire, so can finally have the perfect Master Race. There's also the resistance which operates both in NYC against the Nazis and in San Francisco against the Japanese.
Storyline: Everyone is after these mysterious films. Hitler collects them, but we don't really understand why. The Japanese are after them but they're not really sure why. The Man in the High Castle is involved with the resistance, and he's after the films as well, but then we also suspect that he somehow obtains/produces the films. We don't get to meet him in Season 1. Julianna Crain has seen one of the films and discovers that she's in them and is desperate to find out more. Joe Blake is a Nazi but we're sympathetic because it seems he was born that way and is going through a moral struggle. John Smith (ranking Nazi officer in NYC, who curiously seems to have been born and raised in the U.S. before the war) makes passing references to Joe's father, indicating that there's some importance there but we don't know why.
And then of course, there's the last ten seconds of Season 1 which I'm sure you haven't forgotten!