Coming off the enormous success of something like Mad Men is no easy task, but Matthew Weiner, that series’ creator and executive producer, has found an unexpected yet equally satisfying way to do it with the Amazon anthology series The Romanoffs. Every week brings a different story and different cast, but all…
The great photographer Garry Winogrand took more than a million pictures during his career. Among his preferred subjects was people at airports, especially those saddled with luggage.
"When we talk about people psychologically and having issues we say, 'Oh, they've got baggage,'" notes Geoff Dyer, author of a book on…
How do you follow an enormous success like Mad Men, which won four consecutive Best Drama Series Emmys? Or being a key creative on The Sopranos, equally iconic? Nine-time Emmy winner Matthew Weiner did what he always does and came up with a singularly cinematic concept — The Romanoffs, an anthology series for Amazon…
'The Sopranos' Oral History, Part IV: When you spend six seasons making a show about an organized crime family that rings true, you’ll inevitably bump up against that criminal element, even if you are tapping history to create fictional storylines. If the mob feels you are celebrating their lawlessness, that is bad…
‘The Sopranos’ Oral History, Part III: While the show followed David Chase’s scripts to the letter, with no room for improvisation, the inherent subject matter of lawless men engaging in random explosive violence made for some hair-raising moments during the filming of the show.
Read ‘The Sopranos’ Oral History, Part I…
Despite David Chase’s feeling that The Sopranos would be one and done, the only direction the show was going was upward. It was a bona fide sensation, winning four of the 16 Emmy nominations it received in 1999, including one for Best Writing and the first of three Emmys Edie Falco would win for a show that would go…
Watching Matthew Weiner's upcomingThe Romanoffs and Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner's Camping, I couldn't get over the feeling I had seen these seriously flawed series before — and it was Steven Soderbergh's Full Frontal back in 2002.
Coming off the Oscar success of Traffic and the box office hit Ocean's Eleven…
After former Mad Men writer Kater Gordon accused series creator Matthew Weiner of sexual harassment, he has denied the claims numerous times. The allegations came to light again in a recent interview with Vanity Fair and Weiner, once again, had to stand his ground.
In a report from The Information in November 2017…
“You'd think that royal blood dilutes over time, but the poison survives,” says Radha Mitchell’s character in the new trailer for Matthew Weiner’s forthcoming Amazon Prime anthology, The Romanoffs. The new series — the first anthology for the streaming service — features eight separate stories about people who believe…
A couple of weeks ago, Amazon Prime Video dropped a trailer for its first anthology series The Romanoffs, from Emmy-winning Mad Men mastermind Matthew Weiner. Now the streaming service has released a handful of photos from the first two episodes along with a lineup and episode descriptions for the series’ run that…
According to the new teaser trailer for Amazon Prime Video’s forthcoming anthology series The Romanoffs, it is possible for anyone and everyone to be a descendant of the famed Russian royal family.
Amazon’s first anthology series comes from the Emmy Award-winning Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner and features eight…
Amazon Prime Video has issued the first look trailer and set the release date for The Romanoffs, a contemporary anthology exploring people who believe themselves to be descendants of the murdered Russian royal family. The series also unveiled a group of guest stars who have not been announced before, led Noah Wyle.
The…
