Hello everybody and welcome to the bald move television

we're the officially unofficial podcast for all of television.

I'm your host A. Ron and I'm Jim.

And this Monday we are continuing our journey through Matthew

Weiner's The Romanovs. This was episode 4,

expectation. Jim, I was excited about this episode because I really love Amanda Pete.

I really love John Slattery what did you think of this

episode? I thought it was pretty engaging for the most part There are a couple of scenes that really fell flat to me because I think of the format of this

show, but for the most part, yeah, I found myself pretty engaged, especially by the

performance from Amanda Pete. I thought she was actually really good.

Her character, it's I guess tough for me to relate to her character,

but a lot of the ways they tell this story really helps me

understand where she's coming from and same for John Slattery's character of I

think Daniel is his name in this I found that story pretty engaging.

It's interesting because for me this episode is where the wheels of this show completely fell

off. Okay.

I mean, I've seen Amanda Pete play unlikeable characters before, like a saving Silverman,

but there's always been like a comic sensibility to it.

Maybe it's because this is just another instance of Matthew Weiner

playing the genre conventions, but I felt like a lot of this stuff was shot

and scripted as a comedy,

but everyone, it has the sensibilities of a drama,

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