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The light, sweet tone ofThe Romanoffsis perfume covering the stench of cultural rot.

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The descendants are defined and yet not defined by their lineage.

There are no ongoing characters or plotlines carrying you through the first season.

(Amazon forbids me from saying more.)

I have no idea where the rest of the series is going.

Anushka wants to keep the apartment in the family but wants assurance that the family bloodline wont die out.

Hajar is expected to absorb her unrelenting stream of racist invective.

A ship of fools is a perfect setting for a romantic comedy-fantasy about characters who are culturally adrift.

Where are your people from?

Scottish, Irish, whatever, she says flippantly.

Who gives a shit?

The past is their present.

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