Simon’s next act is as a dashing expat financier, living the high life as a bond trader in Hong Kong during the boom times of the Big ’80s. Dubbed “King Tut” by his fellow schoolboys because of his “dead mummy,” he is eventually shipped off to boarding school by his father, Ondine grinning in triumph behind him. Quickly swooping in to assume the role of lady of the house, Ondine, an ambiguously European young woman, starts her role as Simon’s new mom by implicitly threatening to kill him and explicitly threatening to cut his tongue out should he voice his suspicions to his father. ![]() ![]() He suspects the fire was set by Ondine (Hera Hilmar), the young babysitter with whom his veddy British father George (Ben Miles) was having an affair that his mom found out about only days earlier. Set in France, England, and Hong Kong and taking place over the span of several decades, “The One That Holds Everything” tells the tale of a young man named Simon (Hugh Skinner) - the black sheep of a broken family that repaired itself in part by leaving him out of its redesign - with a complex Russian-nesting-doll (sorry) story structure that peels back the layers of a life one by one.Īs a boy, Simon loses his Romanov-descended mother in a terrifying house fire that nearly claims his life as well. The Romanoffs wraps up its first (and, who knows, possibly only) season by doing largely what it’s done all along: using its massive budget and the creative free rein afforded creator/co-writer/director Matthew Weiner to tell kitchen-sink stories at a globetrotting scale, with the tone shifting nearly as often as the locale. But looking at those numbers, I think they say an awful lot about the qualities of shows that critics find valuable, and it’s not anything good. Outside of network publicists and Rotten Tomatoes itself, I don’t think anyone would argue that review aggregators actually tell you much about the quality of a given show. Even the largely maligned but seemingly immortal CBS nerd-culture comedy The Big Bang Theory rates a 75% among people whose job it is to tell you whether a TV show is any good. Arrow, one of several interconnected shows about DC superheroes, is sitting even prettier at 91%. ![]() The Walking Dead, the zombie juggernaut no one seems to like anymore, more than doubles that score with 88%. The Romanoffs currently has a 43% rating among “top critics” on Rotten Tomatoes.
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