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The Romanoffs

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Prime Video | AMAZON | Release Date: October 12, 2018

Summary: Matthew Weiner's anthology series features stories of people who claim to be descendants of the Russian royal family, who were executed in 1918.

Creator: Matthew Weiner

Genre(s): Drama

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Critic Reviews

75

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Rob Owen

Oct 10, 2018

Season 1 Review: [“The Violet Hour”] takes some unexpected and some predictable turns along the way, but it’s ultimately an enjoyable, charming story. ... “The Royal We” is less involving than “The Violet Hour.” Shelly’s story proves more compelling than Michael’s and the Romanoff theme is more pronounced and bizarre. ... [The third episode is] the second best of the first three episodes made available for review. Read full review

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Vox.com

Emily VanDerWerff

Oct 12, 2018

Season 1 Review: The most salient detail I can share about all of these episodes is that they’re all at least 15 minutes too long. ... Still, the qualities that made Mad Men so good are present here, if buried a bit beneath all the excess. Read full review

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The A.V. Club

Erik Adams

Oct 10, 2018

Season 1 Review: There’s something potent there, something fundamentally Weiner-esque. But it just doesn’t connect in these three episodes. And so the show mirrors its characters in yet another way: It falls short of those which came before it. Read full review

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Slant Magazine

Michael Haigis

Oct 10, 2018

Season 1 Review: Amazon’s The Romanoffs, an anthology series co-written and directed by Matthew Weiner, is ambitious but disappointingly inconsistent. Read full review

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Los Angeles Times

Lorraine Ali

Oct 12, 2018

Season 1 Review: The Romanoffs asks a lot of viewers, with far-flung narratives that lack tonal consistency from episode to episode. Read full review

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TV Guide Magazine Matt Roush

Oct 11, 2018

Season 1 Review: An opulent enterprise often eliciting little more than a head-scratching "Is that all there is" after these over-long vignettes. The tone shifts gears from a trite tale of martial stagnation and temptation from the John Cheever playbook to a more successful attempt to evoke The Twilight Zone's Rod Sterling in a surreal and disorienting "House of Special Purpose." [15-28 Oct 2018, p.8]

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Wall Street Journal

John Anderson

Oct 11, 2018

Season 1 Review: The connections are faulty and the writing is weak; the Romanov/Romanoff conceit is like caviar on a ham sandwich. The three stories made available for review are slightly salacious, yes, but also narratively trite; it’s as if Mr. Weiner set out to create a hybrid of “Black Mirror” and “Hallmark Hall of Fame.” Read full review

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Dan_B

Feb 13, 2021

(Español / English) The Romanovs is a series co-written and directed by the creator of Mad Men, made up of eight independent films of about an hour and a half in length (barely linked by any mention or minimal reappearance of a character), characterized by being starred by some supposed(Español / English) The Romanovs is a series co-written and directed by the creator of Mad Men, made up of eight independent films of about an hour and a half in length (barely linked by any mention or minimal reappearance of a character), characterized by being starred by some supposed descendant of the Russian imperial family, which covers a wide variety of registers, genres, narrative structures, themes, locations and casts that in some cases have big stars. Los Romanov es una serie coescrita y dirigida por el creador de Mad Men, conformada por ocho películas independientes de cerca de hora y media de duración (apenas enlazadas por alguna mención o reaparición mínima de algún personaje) que transcurren en la actualidad y se caracterizan por estar protagonizadas por algún supuesto descendiente de la familia imperial rusa. Recorre una amplia variedad de registros, géneros, estructuras narrativas, temáticas, locaciones y elencos que cuentan en algunos casos con grandes estrellas.
El placer de encontrarse con 8 historias bien contadas, algunas muy logradas.

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Reseña Español Los Romanov es una ambiciosa serie coescrita y dirigida por Matthew Weiner, creador de Mad Men y autor de dos temporadas de Los Soprano. Está conformada en realidad por ocho películas independientes de cerca de hora y media de duración (apenas enlazadas por alguna mención o reaparición mínima de algún personaje), que transcurren en la actualidad, pueden verse en cualquier orden y se caracterizan por estar protagonizadas por algún supuesto descendiente de la familia imperial rusa. Los “capítulos” (que podrían verse en cualquier orden) atraviesan una amplia variedad de registros, géneros, estructuras narrativas y temáticas, se desarrollan en diversas ciudades (de París a Hong Kong y Vladivostok) y cada uno cuenta con su elenco, en algunos casos con grandes estrellas. Cada capítulo tiene un desarrollo en parte sorpresivo y a veces no lineal, por lo que no conviene adelantar mucho sus tramas. Los géneros transitados son el drama familiar, la comedia, el thriller, el fantástico, el policial, incluso con cambios dentro de un mismo capítulo e irrupciones de los metaficcional. Entre las temáticas abordadas figuran (en desorden y sin agotarlas): el abandono familiar, la pérdida, las paternidades y maternidades frustradas, los choques culturales y de clase, las rivalidades en el mundo del espectáculo, la enfermedad, el adulterio, el poder del rumor, la identidad de género, la confianza, el mundo del espectáculo, el editorial, el periodismo. Como era de esperarse, la calidad y el interés de los capítulos son desparejos, pero en todos hay una bienvenida intención de contar una historia, nivel cinematográfico, muy buenas actuaciones, bellas o interesantes locaciones y afortunadamente ninguno cae en la liviandad y el tono cool de Modern Love, por ejemplo. Por lo menos cuatro de los capítulos son muy buenos: el primero, con un sofisticado sentido del humor (y una enorme actuación de Marthe Keller), el segundo, por su desarrollo, cambios de clima y progresión dramática, el último, por su sofisticada estructura narrativa y el séptimo, acaso el mejor y más conmovedor, sobre un matrimonio que viaja a Vladivostok, por la original, inquietante y opresiva manera en que aborda su temática. Algunos preferirán seguramente el capítulo sobre una filmación, tal vez el más ambicioso, por su elenco y su deriva de género. Me animo a decir que estos capítulos superan a varias películas de moda en Netflix.

English Review The Romanovs is an ambitious series co-written and directed by Matthew Weiner, creator of Mad Men and author of two seasons of The Sopranos. It is actually made up of eight independent films of about an hour and a half in duration (barely linked by any mention or minimal reappearance of a character), that happen today, which can be seen in any order and are characterized by being starred by some supposed descendant of the imperial family Russian. As expected, the quality and interest of the chapters are uneven, but in all there is a welcome intention to tell a story, cinematic level, very good performances, beautiful or interesting locations and fortunately none falls into the lightness and cool tone of Modern Love, for example. At least four of the chapters are very good: the first, with a sophisticated sense of humor (and a huge performance by Marthe Keller), the second, for its development and changes in weather, the last, for its sophisticated narrative structure and the seventh, perhaps the best and most moving, about a married couple traveling to Vladivostok, for the original, disturbing and oppressive way in which it addresses its theme. Some will surely prefer the chapter about a film, perhaps the most ambitious, for its cast and its gender drift.… Expand

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Televisio

Jun 17, 2019

Good mini series. Some parts better than others but collectively good. I’m curious about what Weiner will do next.

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  Air Date: October 12, 2018
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