The Romanoffs - 108 - The One That Holds Everything

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🗓️ 26 November 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The Romanoffs arrives at the finish line in "The One That Holds Everything". If you were hoping that this would be the one that brings into focus Weiner's thesis for The Romanoffs, you'll probably be disappointed. An ambitious story framing device that doesn't quite work leads to a surprise ending that doesn't feel earned, and we're left at the end of it all confused and asking "why?" What is so fascinating about the Romanovs that justifies the time and expense that went into making this, or watching it? 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	everybody and welcome to the bald move TV podcast for all of television and we are ending our
0:06.6	laser-like focus of Matthew Weiner's The Romanov's series with the final episode episode 8 the one that holds everything the into a bowl, bowl, the entire thesis of what Matthew Weiner was trying to say and just really
0:24.7	bring everything into focus so that we could properly appreciate the things that we maybe
0:30.4	just weren't getting over the last seven weeks.
0:32.4	Oh yeah, oh yeah, no, this is the maybe just no it didn't do any of the things you described. How could it? Yeah, like I said last week that this episode
0:48.8	essentially can append a certain prefix or a certain
0:53.2	adjective or an adverb to the title creative failure.
0:58.4	So like it could be an ambitious or misguided or a monumental.
1:04.0	And I think that, I feel like that wrong, like wrong-headed, rushed,
1:12.0	I don't know, I'm not exactly sure what
1:15.6	adjective or adverb I want to hang in front of it's just the creative failure but no in
1:20.5	fact this episode like many in the back half of the season really had like all of the
1:26.8	sins of this series on display. It had a little bit more interesting. I guess is back to kind of like the shocking twist of the first half of the the season that I think worked somewhat well in some of the episodes but I don't know it's
1:47.2	Matthew Weiner really treading water in the deep into the pool and
1:52.0	Not not coming away with not coming away with the gold medal and swimming for sure.
1:57.0	Yeah, I don't know I I found myself coming away from it going, hmm, that was sort of an interesting structure. I think it has huge blind spots, like just a massive plot hole right in the middle of it, but we can talk about that.
2:15.0	Yeah, I, the other thing I thought was, because I think this is one of the better
2:21.5	like S edited and written from a dialogue perspective.
2:25.3	There was some like scenes that were very interesting and I thought well constructed,
2:30.9	like two or three of them in the overall story which I didn't think worked so well but
2:36.4	one of the things that when I was watching it I found almost humorous is the
2:41.9	inception level of the storytelling.
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