Amazon’s The Romanoffs Is an Incredibly Strange Experiment From the Creator of Mad Men

In the annals of history, the name “Romanoff” is written in blood. As one character points out in Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner’s odd new Amazon series The Romanoffs, if you know one thing about Tsar Nicholas and his family, it’s that Bolsheviks shot them to death in a basement during the aftermath of the Russian Revolution.