I'm a big fan of the original "The Man in the High Castle" book and a resident of San Francisco. The city's portrayal is inconsistent with reality: there are no cable cars on Mission Street, and it does not have a view of the Golden Gate Bridge; and SFO/Hirohito Airport is south of the city, not north. This is incredibly distracting from what was otherwise a well-executed adaptation of one of my favorite books.
I did, however, appreciate the clever conceit of changing "The Grasshopper Lies Heavy" from a book to news reels. The metaphysical aspects of both the in-universe book/newsreel and the original book are fairly unique in both alternative history fiction and modern mass-audience television, and I hope to see these aspects explored in depth as the series continues (if picked up).
The opportunity educate viewers about our timeline's history should also not be missed. I would wager that many people my age couldn't name any of the important battles of World War II other than Pearl Harbor, and that very few