Title: Vaguely interesting and nothing new for Romanov buffs
Product review: Alas, yet another attempt at the Hitler Channel for making something not about Nazi Germany! And it failed. Although the score was nice, pretty much everything else was not. They did not interview historians--a lot of these people wrote those stupid "royal scandal" books, hardly anything to research about! I was disappointed with the repeat footage and the chapter on the tsar I know most about, Nicholas II, was entirely boring and full of no new information and the rehashed "he was an idiot, his wife was a hysterical lunatic" story was told; as for someone who has gone to Stanford University to research the last of the tsars, I was quite annoyed. The other thing that annoyed me was the change of names...Alexis and Alexei: make up your mind (I prefer Alexei)! The whole Cyrillic thing going on to make it more "Russian" was obnoxious. Needless to say, I taped over this with something much better, figure skating, and I think I'm glad I did.
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