The Last Czars

I admit, after its end, many frustrations are too fresh in my case. It can be defined as average serie. But the Romanovs deserves more than a too subjective history lesson, putting at the wall people out of their historical context. It is a sketch, not an inspired one. And this represents the basic error. The second big mistakes - the actors. Few are good and their acting represents what you expect. The majority... . Maybe, not their fault but the desire to give a panorama and to explain to much, from high subjectivity level. Short, maybe, an average serie. In my case,

The show would be fine if it wasn't often interrupted by narration and nude sex scenes twice an episode that aren't even necessary to the story and take you right out of the drama.

I'll make it quick. The actors were good, the costumes, palaces etc too. What annoyed me were the narrators in between, there was no need for them, as did the twisting of the history since there were no russian historians involved in it, just british and maybe americans. Which also is bothering is that all of the actors speak british english which somehow doesn't reflect the mentality of russians. Also there is no need for the explicit sex scenes at all, there are simply too much of them. The rest is entertaining and well acted in my opinion.

I'm surprised a lot of reviewers are not a fan of the commentary in between scenes. I however, loved this combination. I am a fan of history and when watching historical series or films I tend to google while watching because a lot of questions pop up in my head. This time I didn't need to do that, because all I ever wanted to know was told and explained in the series.

I think they created the right atmosphere and the music at the beginning is perfect to set the tone.

I watched all episodes in one go and was sad when I had finished them. Great acting as well. The historians in the series were perfectly cast by the way, they were really telling the story with emotion. This was a history class on steroids. Well done!

Why is Netflix is so obsessed with unnecessary sex scenes that adds nothing to the story?! The format was fine with me of having interjections of context along the the story as was the mediocre acting skills. The lavish production and costumes were great and reminded us of many sights and sites we saw while in Russia. As to historical accuracy, no one should ever rely on or expect historical accuracy in productions of this type. But the series certainly did paint an accurate picture of the mood that existed in Russia at that time and the precursors to the ultimate death of the Czar as well as the end of the political structure and of course, the rise of Communism. We know what sex looks like though Netflix, so enough already!