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Oct 2, 2018
Season 1 Review:
The first two episodes are content to operate on perhaps two levels simultaneously, where Mad Men rarely settled for less than five, and the third episode is a satirical horror movie that plays like an unholy fusion of The Shining, Roman Polanski’s Repulsion, and François Truffaut’s film-about-filmmaking Day for Night. ... If the first episodes are representative, The Romanoffs is looser and more relaxed than Mad Men in ways that both please and frustrate.
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Uncle BarkyOct 10, 2018
Oct 16, 2018
Season 1 Review:
They’re fables, not operas--undeveloped vignettes with plot twists that slam the door on ambiguity. Neither of the stories [“The Violet Hour” and “The Royal We”] was fully satisfying, but both had moments of eerie beauty. ... [The third episode, “House of Special Purpose” is] a spooky, gamy, kinky story that felt like a lesser “Black Mirror.”
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Oct 11, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Three extremely uneven installments (all that were made available for review). ... The first, the very bad “The Violet Hour,” reveals itself to be a toothless and deeply unappealing romantic comedy. ... The second episode, the decent-by-comparison “The Royal We.” ... That third episode--the only one made available to me that I would describe as “good.”
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TV Guide MagazineOct 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]
Oct 11, 2018
RogerEbert.comOct 9, 2018
Season 1 Review:
It’s hard to believe that Weiner and company couldn’t have hit the same thematic beats and delivered tighter, more engaging drama in the run time of a standard episode of television, but there’s a sense that someone involved here considered length a sign of value. ... In the first two, Melab is particularly subtle and excellent as she steals the superior first film and Bishé reminded me how phenomenal she was on “Halt and Catch Fire” in the second one.
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