But it’s not even about the Romanoffs. It’s so historically inaccurate.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nHow is this even a criticism for your one-star review? Watch the trailer. It’s clearly set in modern-day. If you started this series thinking it would be a documentary, then that’s on you, not the creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How is this by the guy that made Mad Men?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Mad Men came out in 2007. Smartphones didn’t even exist back then. I think people would be surprised with the first season of that show if they tried to watch it for the first time now. It would be way too slow and boring for their tastes. It’s not Matthew Weiner that has changed. It’s society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These people are also wrong about the pacing. At least five of the episodes are truly gripping from start to finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There should be a rule that before you leave a 1-star review of this series, you have to read Anna Karenina<\/em> or The Brothers Karamazov<\/em>. If it’s too slow and boring for you to finish some of the greatest literature ever written, why would we expect you to like something like The Romanoffs<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\nObviously, I don’t believe that, but it would be good if some of these opinionated people tried this on their own. They might find out that they aren’t as knowledgeable as they think. They might find out their taste has been altered by addictive technology making them not the best judge of quality art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyway, the show is great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve been purposefully vague about the plot because so much of the series involves episodes being about something different than they seem. Spoiling any of this show would very much ruin the first viewing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Amazon has a lot of money. I wish this was a paid advertisement for their newest series: The Romanoffs. But it’s not. This is an honest review. First off, it’s really good on every level. The acting, the originality of the writing, the filming, their thematic choices, the pacing, and the choice of a constant stream … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/amindformadness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/romanoffs.jpg?fit=1200%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11861,"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10288\/revisions\/11861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}