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The Romanoffs - 103 - House of Special Purpose

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Bald Move

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.5942 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Jim and I watched an unexpectedly spooky episode of Matthew Weiner's The Romanoffs, "House of Special Purpose". It's a tale that asks us whether we believe in ghosts or if one or perhaps more people are actually losing their minds. Does the spell work, and what is Weiner saying about coercive / abusive directors and set environments? Despite the super serious subject matter, we also find time to pitch a sequel to Twister, somehow, because of Paul Riser? Perhaps it is us losing our minds after all. 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 the bald move television

0:02.8

we're the officially unofficial podcast for

0:05.8

television in general i'm your host a run and i'm jim

0:09.2

and today we're talking about the third episode of Matt Weiner's new house his new series on the house

0:18.0

Romanov the Romanov has a house of special purpose and he does this series and it's to torment

0:26.4

Christina Hendricks apparently yeah I so this was an interesting episode

0:32.4

in that it So this was an interesting episode and that I wasn't expecting even though I said last week that this seems to be like Matthew Weiner taking kind of trophy genre things like romantic comedies and you know

0:46.5

suspect and kind of turning him on her head or doing a different take on it and I

0:50.0

felt like he continued this week with a horror film.

0:54.0

Like a modern kind of creepy atmospheric dread.

0:57.4

You're not sure what's going on kind of horror film.

1:00.4

And I thought it was a pretty striking success and right, you know, aired really appropriately for the season.

1:09.0

What did you think, Jim?

1:11.0

So I had stronger feelings about this episode than I did the previous two, which I think overall is a good thing.

1:17.5

Unfortunately, they're not all positive.

1:20.0

I think you're right on the money with the horror comparison. This is essentially a horror episode, but it's also, in my opinion, an examination of the

1:35.0

examination of the weird shit that goes on during the creation of a movie or a TV show

1:36.0

just like an examination of onset hijinks essentially.

1:41.0

As I said a horror show. A horror show.

1:43.0

It is a shit show, a horror show, for sure.

1:46.0

But here's the thing though, I felt like this episode tried,

1:49.0

and it's weird to say in a show that has hour and a half feature length episodes but I almost feel like

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