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THE ROMANOFFS
October 19, 2018  | By David Bianculli

Amazon Prime Video, 3:00 a.m. ET

 

Today Amazon unveils the third installment of Matthew Weiner’s anthology series The Romanoffs – and this one is a must-see for fans of his previous series, Mad Men. Christina Hendricks, who played Joan in that superb series, stars here as Elaine Rogers, a movie star hired – ready for some major meta? – to star in a TV miniseries called The Romanovs. In this show within the show, her director, Jacqueline Gerard, is a former actress herself, and she’s played by the dizzyingly talented actress Isabelle Huppert. Jacqueline treats Elaine much like Alfred Hitchcock is reputed to have treated some of his leading ladies, which leads to the conflict, and maybe even the horror, in this stand-alone story.

 
 
 
 
 
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