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The Romanoffs - 101 & 102 - The Violet Hour & The Royal We

Bald Move Prestige

Bald Move

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.5942 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2018

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

It's been three years since Don Draper left our televisions, and now Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner is back with something to say? Is it good, is it bad, is it something even worth saying? After seeing 180 minutes of his new series, The Romanoffs, we're still oddly divided on answering those basic questions. It's beautiful, and thoughtful, and at times absorbing, but are the disconnected lives of eight (perhaps delusional) offspring of the fallen House Romanov interesting enough to merit our attention? Join the discussion: Email | Forums Follow us: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook Leave Us A Review on Apple Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everybody welcome to another bald move television the officially unofficial podcast for all of television I'm your host a run and I'm Jim and we are rolling on with our all TV mandate

0:10.5

to talk about Amazon we We're not limited to

0:13.4

terrestrial broadcasts or cable boxes. We're on the

0:17.3

internet. We're on the the World Wide Web.

0:19.5

Because Amazon's got a new series.

0:21.8

Helmed by Matthew Weiner. because Amazon's got a new series.

0:25.0

Helmed by Matthew Weiner. All the things by Matthew Weiner.

0:27.0

But Matthew the Wiener Weiner,

0:29.0

which we were big fans of his badmen.

0:32.0

He did the Madman Happy Hour for many years years have a lot of fun a lot of laughs a lot of tears on that podcast

0:36.7

it's been gone for three years this is his first return to television, essentially, and he's got the Romanovs, which is an anthology that purports to be

0:49.8

about a different member of the Lost Romanov family, the last Zaris

0:57.2

Rachim in Russia before the Bolsheviks took over.

1:00.0

I wouldn't say that like they're all necessarily actual Romanovs but they have the sincere

1:06.9

belief that they are Romanovs. We saw the first two episodes that were released this

1:11.7

over the weekend I think it's actually

1:14.2

on Friday and they're going to release one episode a week each week after this on

1:19.2

Amazon. Jim what did you make of Matthew Weiner's new series?

1:25.0

So here's why people get paid the big bucks because I have zero interest in the topic of

1:30.0

the show and as a matter of fact when you tell me okay we're going to make a series of movies because these are all hour and a half episodes and they're all going to be about a different set of people who think they're Romanovs.

1:44.2

I couldn't be less interested, honestly.

1:47.1

So the only reason I check this out

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