| Summary: | This article aims at reworking the notion of « interwoven storytelling » (Breda, 2015) by developing new theoretical propositions to analyze complex TV series. More precisely, we will question the contribution of this narratological approach in order to study the televisual adaptation of a science fiction novel. We chose the example of The Man in the High Castle (Amazon, 2015-), based on a novel by Philip K. Dick (1962).Switching from a short narrative to a longer and serialized format enables, in this case study, to apply a « narrative lining ». This new textile metaphor is supported by the means of diagrams inspired by the sociological graph theory, giving flesh to the multiplication of connections between characters and storylines over a long period.The narrative expansion through seriality participates in a world-building activity, creating a whole fictional world, both « populated » and geographically all over the place. The fact that The Man in the High Castle belongs to an « imagination culture » and to the uchronia genre enables, on top of it all, to move from a « possible world » to a multiverse, adding yet another lining layer to the complex storytelling.
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