On certain platforms, in addition to warning you with little signs about the sinful content of some series that you are going to see (not only sex, drugs, alcohol, nudity, but also that someone appears smoking) they ask you if you like the series, you are passionate or If you think it’s not for you. The latter is too cautious or mellifluous. I would perhaps answer the questionnaire if the question was: do you think it sucks? Because scatology abounds in that market, but above all mediocrity, repetition, the infinite stretching of chewing gum that already had little flavor from the start. The platforms also display the list of the ten series most followed by the public, many of them capable of turning any minimally educated palate red with shame. But we return to the obvious and that is that millions of flies cannot go wrong when consuming their favorite food.
Can you imagine that given the fabulous demand for scripts for series there will be a multitude of kids who when they grow up will no longer want to dedicate themselves to business economics, politics or dentistry, always safe professions, but will aspire to be screenwriters, a job in which there will be no the distressing problem of unemployment.
There is little news of the creators who marked the golden age of the series in the early years of this century. Of which something is known, they have not returned by far to be at the height of their former talent. Therefore, I am pleased to find the name of Matthew Weiner acting as showrunner in the haunting and engaging series The Romanoffs (Amazon Prime Video). Weiner raised the already very high quality of The Sopranos when he started working on it and then invented the addictive Mad Men. The Romanoffs, eight chapters that each exceed an hour in length, with independent themes and starring characters descended from the tsars, offers something intelligent and disturbing. In its cloudy atmosphere there are echoes of Polansky, of Highsmith, of Hitchock. Weiner does not vampirize them but the echoes of those worlds float. This series is not the bomb, but it has style, it surprises you, it amuses you. And that’s a lot.
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