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The Last Czars (2019)
I am super impressed!
This several-part series is a hybrid: it's part historical drama, part documentary. Just when you begin getting engrossed in the story, in pop the experts who were interviewed for the series. Fascinating whether you've a passing or an enthusiast's gothic interest in the Romanovs and the last czar and czarina of Russia. It's a tragic story, forever elevated to romantic status in the telling of the history of it. What's staying with me at the moment is something one of the aforementioned experts said (paraphrased) in the first episode: 'The czar was expected to be all things, and no one alive was reasonably qualified for that job, nor could be expected to meet every impossibly lofty expectation laid before the czar.' In short: a tremendous amount of pressure, and if you think contemporary politics is rough-going - with each side never fully happy - then wait'll you see this!