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'The Romanoffs' review: 90 minutes of lessons in human weakness and lots of unexplored themes

These two episodes clearly show a faint hope of potential but are marred by the lack of a proper story and themes which were supposed to be explored in the first place.

'The Romanoffs' released two of its episodes on Amazon Prime Videos on October 12. The original anthology series is based on people around the world who believe they are descendants of the Russian royal family. The show tries to take a dive into the obsession with being a royal, especially this one considering its horrific past. Created, written, directed and produced by nine-time Emmy award winner Matthew Weiner, who was also behind 'Mad Men', the show will reveal its stories in eight parts.

The first episode titled 'The Violet Hour' is set in Paris where Romanov descendant Greg (Aaron Eckhart) lives with his greedy for money girlfriend, Sophie (Louis Bourgoin). The couple co-manages a hotel in Paris, where they also live in. Sophie has her eye set to live in the ancestral house of Greg's Aunt also a Romanov, Anushka (Marthe Keller) and also a Fabergé egg she has promised them. Since, it's an ancestral house, after Anushka's death, it will belong to Greg, who is her only family.