The east coast election returns were too depressing, so I watched the second episode of "The Romanoffs." I liked it better than the first. On IMDB, the first episode rates 8.0 and the second is 7.2. Solid performances, although maybe not a dominant one like Marthe Keller in the first. I think I would have liked it better if they ended it about six minutes earlier. The first two episodes have a surprising optimistic streak.
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 5:21 PM Steve Timko <steveti...@gmail.com> wrote: > I’ve watched the first episode of “The Romanoffs,” the new Amazon series > from “Mad Men “creator Matthew Weiner. It tells of the story of people who > claim relations to the royal Russian family killed in the Bolshevik > revolution. I think there’s a eight episodes, with new ones dropping every > Friday. > The first episode is listed as almost 90 minutes, but seems to last > longer. It is slow paced. On top of it, as soon as they introduced a key > character, the new housekeeper, I guessed four-fifths of the rest of plot. > To crib from David Letterman, I could see it coming up Fifth Avenue. I got > the ending wrong. So not only is it moving slow, I know what’s coming. > Perhaps because Aaron Eckhart is one of the major players in this episode, > I expected an ending like his “In the Company of Men.” I was wrong. > Marthe Keller plays the main role and does a wonderful job. I don’t > remember her but she’s been in bunch of films I’ve seen, beginning with > “Marathon Man.” There’s really no bad acting the show. And the photography > of Paris is wonderful. There were some poignant moments. But this might be > challenging to watch because of its pace. > I will stick with it because of “Mad Men.” If you’ve never watched the DVD > commentary for the first season of “Mad Men,” do it. They point out so much > I missed the first time around. So I have confidence that Weiner will tie > it altogether in the end. I will at least watch through episode 3, which > has Christina Hendricks. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
