I'll probably catch three more episodes tonight on Prime through Roku. Finding out that Julia was the daughter-in-law of the Pacifist Japanese Trade Minister, in an alternate reality with their shared memories was a master stroke of writing in my opinion.
Liking Obergruppenfuhrer Smith is sort like loving to hate JR from Dallas.
He’s the only really interesting antagonist. He adds moral complexity that is otherwise missing because it’s stock villains of Nazis. He genuinely cares about his family and country, albeit in a twisted and evil political orientation. Plus with Season 2 it becomes apparent that Smith and the American Nazis aren’t nearly as fanatical and ruthless as their German counterparts like Heydrich, especially when he gets the bad news about his family and becomes conflicted about it.
That’s why I think people “like” him, because he’s a very human and realistic depiction of what evil is like in its rather banal form and not monologuing mustached twirling hams.